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If you'd like to make good money working outdoors as a framer, this is the book for you. Rough Framing Carpentry has shortcuts with production line procedures that save you time and help you make more money:
Rough Framing Carpentry shows you quick, efficient ways to frame residential and commercial buildings:
Walls: How to lay out your studs for super quick assembly on exterior walls, shear walls, and interior walls. How to cut a radius plate for a curved wall with a circular saw without destroying your blade. How to plumb and align walls once they're up. Joists: Planning the joist layout in advance. Double joists and head-outs to avoid plumbing fixtures. Spreading, blocking, and nailing the joists. Installing ceiling backing, ceiling joists, truss joists, joists on concrete stem walls, and joists on exposed beams. Sheathing: Tricks of subfloor sheathing: planning, marking, fitting and gluing tongue and groove subfloor (including site-constructed tools that help you increase productivity), notching for utilities, and nailing subfloor sheathing. Time-saving techniques for cutting sheathing. Stairs: How to lay out stairs, determine riser height and tread depth, several ways to head out the upper floor. How to find the height of landings and lay out the horses with a framing square and stair gauges to detect problems early on, and how to frame winding and circular stairs. Truss Roofs: Stacking trusses for quick spreading, the fastest way to raise and block trusses, shortcuts when rolling and nailing the gable and hip trusses, framing in a California fill, the how-to's of installing understacking, ceiling backing, clips, and catwalks. This manual is written by a skilled master framer who learned it all the hard way so you don't have to. If saving time on the job, doing top-quality work and making better money by building smarter appeal to you, glance through the pages of this book. It comes with a guarantee: Rough Framing Carpentry will help you save time and make more money on framing jobs, or your money back. The Author: For nearly twenty years Mark Currie has worked as a framer on custom homes, commercial buildings and residential tracts. During this time he perfected timesaving methods so he can do top-quality work in minimum time and at maximum profit. His construction company specializes in custom homes and residential tracts. (Mr. Currie is also a photographer and took most of the photographs for this book.) Over 100 on-the-job photos of how to do it right and what can go wrong. Includes: Book By: Mark Currie Published by: Craftsman Book Company 304 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11 |
