A note from the author.
Bill Bradley.

I served a five year apprenticeship to the trade of carpentry and joinery in the late 1950's and early 1960's. I picked up a "City and Guilds of London Institutes" qualification as Carpenter and Joiner and a National Cert. in building construction before leaving my native Lancashire (England) to emigrate to Australia as a "Ten pound tourist".

In my early twenties I had the qualifications to be a trade school teacher and a couple of my mates did just that.

I chose an alternative path and started to work for myself first as a sub-contractor and later a builder. My wife and I started our own construction company in 1974 and we ran it successfully until I retired at age 65. We were full members of our Master Builders association for over 25 years.

I started using computers in the early 1980's and was CAD drafting and submitting my own plans to the building department by 1985. My last building submission was in 2006.

• I consider myself first and foremost a practical person who loves to get in there and do it.
• At the same time I am always looking for easier or faster ways to do things. Many times when faced with a hard or a difficult job I have used the expression "there must be an easier way to do this" to myself.
• A lot of the material in my books is the result of finding those easier and faster ways of working.
• What you will get in my books are instructions that relate to the real world. Where the work has to be done in a quick and efficient manner.

My website and the books are in some small way a means of passing on methods of working that I have worked for me over the last fifty years.