Once you have the schedules for work and materials, contact and organise the tradesmen. This should include contacting your local authority to book in the site inspections and the scaffolding contractor.
If you don't have a project manager, don't be afraid to let someone else do some of the hard work. Travis Perkins (www.travisperkins.co.uk), Buildstore (www.buildstore.co.uk) and some other merchants offer estimating and ordering services as well as expert assistance to self builders.
Ideally, you should have one point of contact at your local depot. This makes the smooth delivery of materials to site easier to arrange than working with several firms. Bear in mind that you may make some savings by shopping around but this can easily be offset by the extra cost of several deliveries compared to one drop by a builder's merchant.
A typical schedule of work for a brick and block house might run like this:
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