PREFACE WHEN young people set up in life, married or single, they find there are a great many 'ordinary things' which they want to know. They attempt to acquire the necessary information by asking their older friends, and receive answers which are often inaccurate and incomplete. There seems to be no good reason why the correct answers should not be recorded in a book and thus made conveniently accessible to all. The chief difficulty is to make the information elementary enough to be really useful to the ordinary person without experience or special training, but it is hoped that this difficulty has been to some extent surmounted in the present work. 234529 CONTENTS Rent and Income-Rates-Probable Repairs-Service Con- venience-Accessibility- Aspect-Possible Profits. Water Supply - Sanitary Work and Appliances-Walls and Country Life-Residential Districts-The Garden-Importance Possible Gains in building-Leasehold Site-Freehold Site- Architects-Builders-Cubic Measure of the House. |