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Modern Carpentry: Essential Skills for the Building Trades 11th Edition

Modern Carpentry: Essential Skills for the Building Trades, 11th Edition, is visually appealing and interesting for students to read. Special features include charts, graphs, tables, case studies, critical thinking challenges, and numerous activities to engage the learner in the learning process.

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Author: Willis H Wagner, Howard Bud Smith
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 1000

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Modern Carpentry provides detailed coverage of all aspects of light frame construction, including site preparation and layout, foundations, framing and sheathing, roofing, windows and doors, exterior finish, stairs, cabinetry, and finishing procedures for interior walls, floors, and ceilings. Beyond a solid discussion of building basics, this text covers special topics, such as chimneys, fireplaces, and decks. Systems-built housing, remodeling, solar construction, and painting and decorating are also covered.

The 11th Edition of Modern Carpentry: Essential Skills for the Building Trades is an extensive revision of this authoritative text. It includes two new chapters, covering framing with steel and the building of decks and porches, as well as numerous text and illustration changes to depict current materials and practices. The text provides detailed coverage of all aspects of light frame construction, including site preparation and layout; foundations; framing and sheathing; roofing; windows and doors; exterior finish; stairs; cabinetry, and finishing procedures for interior walls, floors, and ceilings.

Beyond a solid discussion of building basics, Modern Carpentry covers special topics such as constructing stairs, chimneys, fireplaces, and decks. Systems-built (prefabricated) houses, remodeling, cabinet installation, solar construction, and painting and decorating are also covered. To familiarize carpentry students with other aspects of the building trades, the text includes chapters on mechanical systems: electrical, plumbing, and HVAC. Throughout the text, safe working practices are emphasized, and special attention is paid to proper use of the latest tools, materials, and prefabricated components.

Features:

Uses clear, nontechnical language and detailed illustrations to provide the most easy-to-understand presentation of any carpentry book on the market.
Includes many step-by-step procedures emphasized by special graphic treatment to set them off from the text.
Provides detailed coverage of both residential and light commercial construction.
Provides useful career information in a dedicated chapter, plus more than 20 "On-the-Job" features describing building trades occupations.
Presents chapters arranged in a logical sequence, similar to the order in which the phases of building construction are performed.

From the Introduction
Modern Carpentry is a colorful, easy-to-understand source of authoritative and up-to-date information on building materials, tools, and construction methods. It provides detailed coverage of all aspects of light construction. Included are site development, print reading, site layout, excavating, foundation work, framing, sheathing, insulating, roofing, window and door installation, exterior finishing, interior finishing, and mechanical systems.

Chapters are arranged in a logical sequence similar to the order builders use to complete various phases of home construction. Special emphasis is given to the carpenter's workplace and what is expected of a new carpenter on a job site. The workplace chapter covers basic skills, attitudes, and relationship to coworkers. It strongly focuses on safe work habits in handling tools, materials, and prefabricated components.

An introductory chapter discusses the entire scope of materials - old and new - that are available. This chapter includes size and grade descriptions as well as technical information covering physical properties and other important characteristics. Scientific and technical discoveries have led to the development of many new materials, including engineered lumber, better insulation, and more-energy-efficient doors and windows.

The proper use and application of these materials depends on craftspersons with considerable knowledge of the products and materials and how those materials should function in a completed structure. Use of prefabricated components, or even entire prefabricated structures, is having a significant impact on how homes are constructed on the building site. The market for housing partly or entirely built in a factory is expected to show continued growth beyond the 30% marktet share witnessed in recent years.

Beyond a solid discussion of building basics, Modern Carpentry covers special topics, such as constructing stairs, chimneys, fireplaces, and decks. Systems-built (prefabricated) houses, remodeling, cabinet installation, solar construction, and painting and decorating are also covered.

Modern Carpentry also provides chapters introducing mechanical systems: electrical wiring, plumbing, and heating and cooling (HVAC). More than cursory discussions of principles, these chapters explain how to install such systems.

Supplementing the text materials are more than 1600 photographs and line art illustrations. These are coordinated with step-by-step instructions and clear descriptions.

Modern Carpentry is designed as a comprehensive text for carpentry students at various levels, including high schools, vocational technical schools, colleges, and apprentice training programs. It also serves as a valuable reference for students in architectural drafting and for journeymen carpenters and construction supervisors.

The book will enable do-it-yourselfers to handle many construction projects they may otherwise be reluctant to undertake. This edition incorporates input of consultants in both residential and light commercial construction.

Contents:
Preparing to Build. Chapter 1: Building Materials. Chapter 2: The Carpenter's Workplace. Chapter 3: Plans, Specifications, and Codes. Chapter 4: Hand Tools. Chapter 5: Power Tools. Chapter 6: Building Layout. Footings, Foundations, and Framing. Chapter 7: Footings and Foundations. Chapter 8: Floor Framing. Chapter 9: Wall and Ceiling Framing. Chapter 10: Roof Framing. Chapter 11: Framing with Steel. Closing In. Chapter 12: Roofing Materials and Methods. Chapter 13: Windows and Exterior Doors. Chapter 14: Exterior Wall Finish. Finishing. Chapter 15: Thermal and Sound Insulation. Chapter 16: Interior Wall and Ceiling Finish. Chapter 17: Finish Flooring. Chapter 18: Stair Construction. Chapter 19: Doors and Interior Trim. Chapter 20: Cabinetry. Chapter 21: Painting, Finishing, and Decorating. Special Construction. Chapter 22: Chimneys and Fireplaces. Chapter 23: Post-and-Beam Construction. Chapter 24: Systems-Built Housing. Chapter 25: Passive Solar Construction. Chapter 26: Remodeling, Renovating, and Repairing. Chapter 27: Building Decks and Porches. Mechanical Systems. Chapter 28: Electrical Wiring. Chapter 29: Plumbing Systems. Chapter 30: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. Scaffolds and Careers. Chapter 31: Scaffolds and Ladders. Chapter 32: Carpentry – A Career Path.

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