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From Basic to Advanced Techniques
Complete Book of Framing: An Illustrated Guide for Residential Construction provides a straightforward, easy-to-learn method that will help framers, carpenters, and handy homeowners build their skills in rough carpentry and framing. Shows how to frame all the parts of a house: floors, walls, roofs, door and window openings, and stairs – with hundreds of color photographs and drawings that show every detail. The book gives beginners all the basics they need to go from zero framing knowledge to a journeyman level, and it provides valuable tips and tables for the experienced carpenter.
Start with the basics: The book begins with types of lumber, nails, and tools you need. Then you'll get detailed, fully illustrated steps for framing each building element – from planning and layout through specific nailing patterns. "Framer-Friendly Tips" throughout the book show how to get a task done right – and more easily. The glossary brings you up to speed on terms used by contractors and lumberyards.
Advanced framing sections cover complex walls, roofs, and stairs - plus hurricane and earthquake framing - shown step by step for a clear understanding.
Essential details show you exactly what to do for tasks like installing window flashing and pre-hung or sliding glass doors. The latest building codes and new materials , like composite wood products, are also covered. Benefit from the author's experience in every area, including his own time-saving method for figuring rafter lengths and angles.
Complete Book of Framing: An Illustrated Guide for Residential Construction gives you all the basics you need to go from zero framing knowledge to a journeyman level. And it provides valuable tips and tables for the experienced carpenter.
The book also includes:
- Advanced framing topics for complex walls, roofs, and stairs – shown step by step for a clear understanding.
- Essential details, such as how to install window flashing and pre-hung or sliding glass doors.
- The latest building code requirements (including earthquake and hurricane construction).
- New materials like composite wood products.
- Time-saving methods for taking measurements and figuring rafter lengths and angles.
Other features: Website access to framing formulas and a glossary to bring you up to speed on framing terms used by contractors and lumberyards (in English and Spanish).
From the Introduction
I'm a framing contractor. I've spent most of my career as a lead framer, directing my framing crews
and training workers to become framers. In my teaching, I found that much of the information I
needed was not available in a good book, so I wrote one, Framing and Rough Carpentry. As I
started spending more of my time training and working with lead framers, I again looked for a
good, easy-to-understand reference. I didn't find what I needed, so I wrote another book, Advanced
Framing Methods, that provides all the information a framer needs to move up to the next level -
becoming a lead framer. The Complete Book of Framing is the combination of those two books, updated with full-color illustrations and photographs, plus additional information - all presented in what I've come to think of as a "framer-friendly" format.
If you're a novice with no framing experience, you'll see the basics of framing shown in a simple, step-by-step style that makes it easy to learn. Where possible, I included both photographs and drawings for each step - for quick and complete learning. The advanced information will be more difficult for a novice to understand, but getting a good feel for the framing basics that come before it will help. The more advanced tasks are also explained with photos and clear drawings. The book's Website gives you another tool to make advanced framing tasks easier. You'll find pre-set-up calculations there that you can use for things like calculating angles for making rafter cuts.
If you're already an experienced framer, the book gives you some unique tools that you won't find anywhere else. For example, after struggling with rafters and rake walls for years, I developed a digital percent system that makes it easier. I use this for finding rafter lengths and rake wall stud heights. The book also explains all the "classic" methods for doing these tasks, but once you try the digital percent system, I doubt you'll go back to the old methods. Another example of the book's unique style of presentation is the layout language, which I developed for my first book.
If you're a lead framer, all the basic framing steps presented are important for reference and to help you teach and train crews. Most valuable, however, will be the guidance on managing a framing crew. Once you become a lead framer, your productivity is defined by the productivity of your crew. You'll need to think about the information they need and how to teach and manage them most effectively. Chapter 13 of this book is like a mini framer management course.
The charts and graphs in the book present information that is needed to manage a framing crew, but is not readily available. For example, the International Building Code chart makes it easy to reference the latest information governing framing. The Standard Framing Dimensions chart gathers the information that you "sort-of" remember, but it helps to have it handy for quick reference.
This book covers all the major topics related to framing. Each is presented in the easiest learning method. Because the framing tasks are diverse and vary in complexity, the format also varies a little throughout the book. All of the topics are covered in a framer-friendly way. Framing is very rewarding work, both physically and mentally. One of the biggest challenges, however, is getting accurate information every time so that you can be sure you're framing a structure correctly. This book will assist you with that task.
Table of Contents
About the Author. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction to Framing. Chapter 2: Nailing Patterns. Chapter 3: Floor Framing. Chapter 4: Wall Framing. Chapter 5: Roof Framing. Chapter 6: Doors, Windows and Stairs. Chapter 7: Layout. Chapter 8: Engineered Wood Product. Chapter 9: Wind and Earthquake Framing. Chapter 10: Building Code Requirements. Chapter 11: Preparing for a Job. Chapter 12: Managing the Framing Start. Chapter 13: Managing a Framing Team. Chapter 14: Safety. Glossary. Spanish Framing Terms. Index.
About the Author
Scot Simpson has been framing houses, schools, and commercial buildings for 30 years – and has owned a construction firm for 25 years. He developed and refined the methods in this book and uses it to train his crews. Scot is the author of two other construction books and many articles for construction magazines, such as Fine Homebuilding and the Journal of Light Construction. He is a member of the International Code Council (ICC), Associated General Contractors (AGC), and Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), and was 2006 Chairman of the ABC Framers Council. |
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