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Framing commercial jobs can be more lucrative than residential work.
But most commercial jobs require some form of metal stud framing. This book teaches step-by-step, with hundreds of job site photos, high-speed metal stud framing in
commercial construction. It describes the special tools you’ll need and how to use them effectively,
and the material and equipment you'll be working with.
Commercial Metal Stud Framing reveals the shortcuts, tips and tricks-of-the-trade that take most steel framers years on the job to discover.
This book shows how to set up a crew to maintain a rhythm that will speed progress faster than any wood
framing job. If you've framed with wood, this book will teach you how to be one of the few top-notch metal stud framers.
With this new book you'll quickly learn, step-by-step, the basic methods (and some valuable tricks
of the trade) to master high-speed metal stud framing in commercial construction.
If you're an experienced wood framer, you already have many of the skills you'll need.
This manual, written by a framer who runs work for one of the largest metal stud contractors in
the country, tells you just about everything you need to know to transfer those skills to metal stud
framing in commercial buildings.
You'll find detailed instructions for:
- structural walls
- curtain walls
- putting up headers
- suspended ceilings
- building soffits
- hollow metal jambs
- furring walls
- fire-rated walls & ceilings
- columns
- hanging drywall on metal studs
You'll also learn about the new tools, materials and equipment you'll need for framing with steel,
and how to use them safely and efficiently. But what makes this book especially valuable is the focus
on how a crew can work together, setting up and maintaining a rhythm that speeds you through the
job quickly and accurately. For example, it tells you exactly what the framer on the ground should be
doing while you're up on the scaffold stuffing the top plate.
This book is easy to read, conversational, and includes literally hundreds of job site photos that show
exactly how to assemble each part of the structure. Once you see how the steel framing is done,
you'll find it's considerably easier than wood. But to earn top pay on a commercial site, you need
more than just the basics. You'll need the shortcuts, the proven techniques for dealing with specific
problems that stump the novice (and sometimes the super).
Here you'll find secrets the author has
learned over the years, both from the old-timers who showed him the ropes, and from his own
experience as he worked around the problems that come up on every job.
The Author: Ray Clark has for the past 15 years worked in several states in the residential and commercial
drywall and metal stud framing trades, sharing experience with other metal stud framers across
the country and mastering his craft under the guidance of some of the nation's top framers. He has also taught framing in junior college, and it was while searching for a clear, accurate text that
he realized it was up to him to write one. This is the first full-scale metal stud framing text, and he's
filled it with the tips and tricks that normally only years on the job can teach.
Includes: Book
By: Ray Clark
208 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11
ISBN: 1-57218-079-X
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