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Whatever your skill level, you'll find something useful and valuable in Carpentry, which collects the seasoned advice of the country's best builders and lays it out for you in clear language backed up by mistake-proof photography and drawings. Carpentry covers both basic and advanced carpentry techniques, from installing cabinets, hanging doors, and doing trim work to cutting stairs, framing walls, and constructing furniture-quality built-ins clients will love. The builder-tested techniques in Carpentry will help you develop new skills while honing the ones you have.
The best field-tested advice, tips, techniques and instruction on the most common carpentry jobs.
- Frame floors, walls, ceilings, roofs.
- Install vinyl, wood or composite siding.
- Replace or repair windows and doors.
- Install wainscoting, crown molding, and mantels.
- Build stairs.
Carpentry covers every important facet of residential carpentry, from framing the mudsills, walls, floors, ceilings and roof to building stairs, cabinets and other built-ins, as well as basic finish carpentry skills such as interior trim carpentry and exterior siding.
From the Introduction
Like a lot of baby boomers, I grew up in a house with a workbench in the basement and a pegboard full of carpentry tools hanging behind it. My father had been raised on a farm during the Depression, and even though he became a successful surgeon, he would no more live in a house without tools than he would drive a car without a flashlight in the glove box. I also went to a public school that taught industrial arts. My mother still uses the walnut doorstop shaped like a Scottie dog that I made when I was 12.
My early exposure to the satisfaction of building things led me to spend the first ten years of my professional life working as a carpenter. To this day, it's still how I define myself. Ask me what I do, and I'll say I'm an editor. But ask me who I am, and I'll say I'm a carpenter.
Unfortunately there are fewer homes today with workbenches in the basement and fewer fathers who can teach their kids how to build things. That's where this book can help. Collected here are 37 articles from past issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine. Written by professional carpenters from all over the country, these articles represent an apprenticeship in the trade. Whether you're fixing up your own house on the weekends or earning a living building homes for other people, you'll find useful advice and hard-won tips in this book. Heck, you'll even learn how to build a set of shelves to put it on.
- Kevin Ireton, editor,
Fine Homebuilding
Table of Contents
Framing (Floors, Ceilings, Walls, Roofs). Finish Carpentry. Windows and Doors. Stairs. Cabinets and Built-Ins. |
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