The Honeywood File An Adventure in Building

by Creswell, H.B.

• ISBN13: 9780897334730
• ISBN10: 0897334736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers

Summary

In this richly comic classic, first published in the 1920s, the pitfalls and vicissitudes of home building are presented in sharp and unforgettable detail, in the form of letters to and from the architect, a hapless young man named James Spin-love, who, in his valiant attempts to create the Honeywood mansion for Sir Leslie Brash, encounters a motley collection of contractors, surveyors, plumbers and town planners, to say nothing of intensely litigious lawyers, and Sir Leslie Brash himself, along with his good lady. This book follows the rich tradition of wry English humour. It also contains a great deal of valuable and still pertinent information about building a house.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
The File is Opened	9	(4)
The Commission	13	(3)
Sketches and Estimates	16	(13)
Catastrophe of the Trial Holes	29	(13)
Preparation for Tenders	42	(5)
The Tenders Go Wrong	47	(9)
Grigblay, and Brash, Get to Work	56	(12)
The District Surveyor Intervenes	68	(7)
The Affair of the Spring	75	(6)
Trouble With Bricks	81	(6)
More Difficulties	87	(10)
Brash on Bricks	97	(4)
A Box of Cigars	101	(5)
Carrying On	106	(8)
A Sanitary Expert Appears	114	(9)
The Thick of the Flight	123	(11)
The Last of the Spring	134	(5)
Spinlove's Special Roof	139	(8)
Mr. Potch Again Objects	147	(5)
The Stairs Go Wrong	152	(3)
Spinlove Applies for Fees	155	(3)
The Water Comes In	158	(3)
Lady Brash Takes Charge	161	(14)
A Storm in a Paint Pot	175	(7)
Sir Leslie Brash Takes Charge	182	(5)
The Affair of the Cottages	187	(7)
Lady Brash Causes a Diversion	194	(7)
Spinlove Uses Tact	201	(3)
``Nibrasp'' Asks Compensation	204	(7)
Difficulties and Delays	211	(14)
Sir Leslie Brash Moves In	225