Originally Posted by borked

Bzzzzt.
Careful, a different country, different rules.... you may be a qualifed ______ in the US, but outside, you may end up being a nobody if they aren't the same qualifications....

Anyway, to build your own home, here at least, you don't have to be a qualified anything. You just have to pass via the regular channels and get approval of the work after for the insurance (and bank who loans the money).

I built our house with my own two hands (and not any studded wooden house, but bricks, mortar and concrete blocks) and only had a plumber to do the gas and the facilities companies to fit the meters. Still it took like 50x longer to do than a contracted company, but hell, I can say "I built that" and it cost like 15X less.