Construction training

This guide will show you ways to train Construction from 1 to 99. Please note that smaller houses need less loading time and could significantly increase efficiency.

Introduction
Many players disagree on the hardest skill to raise. Some players say it is Prayer, others summoning, and others smithing. Construction is another one of these skills. It can be very beneficial if used correctly. However, players have been known to spend hundreds of millions of coins getting there levels up to 99. This guide is designed to help you level this skill without spending more money than necesary, or spending hundreds of hours getting your levels up. The reader can pick and choose techniques, as they may be willing to pay a lot up to a certain level, then switching to cheaper methods.

Get there Fast
These methods are the fastest, and not necesarily always the costliest.

Level 1 to 16
Start by making crude wooden chairs in your parlour and removing them. The requirements for them are 2 planks and 2 nails. Repeat this process until you're out of planks or you reach level 16.

One way of getting planks is running to Falador, withdrawing a full inventory of planks and running back to your house in Rimmington. However, if you're prepared to spend more money, teleport to castle wars using a ring of dueling, get a full inventory of planks and teleport to house. (with 40 magic) or use a house teleport tablet.

Level 16 to 33
Build 13 repair benches per load repeatedly until level 33. This gets about 1560 exp. per load, and you need about 260 oak planks.

Level 33 to 38
You can now make oak larders in your Kitchen, creating these costs 8 oak planks. You could time this neatly with your servant if you can afford. This takes about 235 oak planks

Level 38 to 46
Build Teak dining tables in your dining room. This will take about 420 Teak planks.

Level 46 to 52
Build the next type of workbench through upgrade. Remember to do this whenever you can. Then build carved teak table on it. This takes about 620 teak planks and 300 bolts of cloth.

Level 52 to 80
Build Mahogany tables at your workbench. This will take roughly 13302 Mahogany planks

Level 80 to 99
Build marble walls in your formal garden however, this costs tons of money.

Get there at a Moderate Speed for less money
This is the best balance. The level 74-99 technique is probably more sensible then the marble walls.

Level 1 to 16
Start by making crude wooden chairs in your parlour and removing them. The requirements for them are 2 planks and 2 nails. Repeat this process until you're out of planks or you reach level 16.

One way of getting planks is running to Falador, withdrawing a full inventory of planks and running back to your house in Rimmington. However, if you're prepared to spend more money, teleport to castle wars using a ring of dueling, get a full inventory of planks and teleport to house. (with 40 magic) or use a house teleport tablet.

Level 16 to 33
Build 13 repair benches per load repeatedly until level 33. This gets about 1560 ep. per load, and you need about 260 oak planks.

Level 33 to 74
Now you have the ability to make carved oak tables at your workbench, they require 6 oak planks per table. Make 3 of these and you will be left with 5 oak planks. With these, make an oak chair and an oak armchair. Once you reach level 40, you can combine this method with a butler who will bring your planks much faster, with a similar price to teleportation.

Level 74 to 99
If you have a dungeon and a butler, you can make oak dungeon doors. Have your butler bring you 20 oak planks, build and remove 2 Oak doors. If done correctly, you should be on time for the next load. You will earn loads of XP, but it's hard work. Continue doing this until you reach level 99.

Get there as cheap as possible
For those of you who don't own tons of money, and still want to level your construction, this is your guide.

Level 1 to 2
Build a couple crude wooden chairs.

Level 3 to 10
At level 3, you can start making clay fireplaces. A recommended method to do this is mine clay from the mine near Rimmingtonand buy a bucket in general stores. You also could use a Bracelet of clay.

Level 10 to 17
Now you can make a pond in your garden. This method is faster and some believe that the clay method is easier from level 3 to level 17. To do this you should use the same method above with the bucket, which will get you these levels virtually free. Also, you could do this to get level 99 virtually free, however it would probably be faster to earn enough money to do it much faster before you could get past level 60.

Level 8 to 19
At this level, you should make wooden chairs in your parlour. They require 3 planks and 3 nails. Keep in mind you can train and decorate your house at the same time.

Level 19 to 31
At level 19 you can make a workshop. It is highly recommended that you make one close to the entrance portal. This requires 10,000 coins but it will be more then worth the money. Once you've done this, make a wooden workbench (requires 5 planks and 5 nails). Now you should have used up all your planks, you'll be using oak planks from now on, which don't require any nails. You also don't have to go into the building mode anymore for most training techniques. From this point on, make oak chair-flatpacks, use the teleportation method to restock on planks and bank all your flatpacks because dropping them costs too much time. Alternatively, you could hire a servant from the Servants' Guild in Ardougne.

Level 5 to 99
This method requires 5 limestone bricks to make, you should build decorative rocks in your garden. You can use this method for as long as you want, but keep in mind that it's a slow process, and costs more than the clay technique.
 * You can buy the bricks from the stonemason in keldagrim, and get 651722 bricks and level 99 construction for merely 17 million coins.
 * You could save about 4 million coins if you buy from Mort'ton, however this is much farther from a bank.
 * If you mine limestone near the Odd Old Man, then use the Balloon transport system to get to a bank and back, you can then craft your mined limestone into bricks. This is practically free, however its very slow.

More Strategies

 * You can collect planks from the spawn near Barbarian Assault. If you time it right between the bank deposit bo and plank spawn, you can average about a 6 planks a minute.
 * Mine and forge iron ore to make about 700,000 Iron nails. This will not only save money, it will help you increase your smithing skill, another costly skill.  Buy a Ring of forging, and smith 140 iron bars.  Sell five bars to pay for the ring, and you have just doubled the amount of nails you can make with that much ore.
 * Build an oak larder, then sell flour from it instead of flatpacks to offset the cost. Flour sells faster and generally sells for more.
 * Deposit your flatpacks into your kingdom after doing part of the Fremennik diary, this will give you coins in your treasury, which then can be converted into supplies, such as logs or coal. You could also choose to get fish or flax to sell and then use the profit to build your house.