Ultimate Guide to House Framing [Paperback]

 

Ultimate Guide to House Framing [Paperback]

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner; Third edition (February 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580114431
• ISBN-13: 978-1580114431
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  

By : John D. Wagner
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Buyer Evaluations

This is a pretty well writen book with a lot of photos, but it is for folks with limited construction experence. I bought this book since I require rafter tables, specificialy jack-hip rafter tables. This book does not have any roofing tables and provides 3 paragraphs about reading a jack-hip rafter table (but does not have the table). If you have far more than three years of residential construction experence, you must currently know anything in this book.

Possibly the most widespread framing job a homeowner is likely to tackle is an unfinished basement but there is nothing for them here. Chapter 14 covers basement framing with steel - not lumber! For a lot of homers that makes this book a major fat zero. As for the rest of it, I'm not confident this book is suitable for anybody. Half the book is written for somebody whose nearly ready for their contractors license and the other half is written for a person who has never picked up a hammer. It seriously feels like it was written by more than one particular person. The switch occurs suddenly and is jarring, confusing, and annoying. The 1st chapter covers quite standard stuff most DIY guys currently know (e.g., what is pressure treated lumber, standard lumber dimensions, etc.). Then chapter 2 gets technical (e.g., glossaries of blueprint abbreviations and symbols and discussions of engineering stuff like sheer forces and reside loads, and so on.). The next two chapters get tremendously standard once again, describing tools you'll have to have in detail (nearly an whole page devoted to framing hammers) and a handful of chapters later you are into gabled roofs and shed dormers. The book aspires to provide all the engineering and construction information you require to frame a Victorian residence from qualified architectural drawings by an individual who has under no circumstances actually held a screwdriver before. Ridiculous.

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