Construction & Building Trades - Carpentry & Roofing, Home Carpentry, Home Design & Construction
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Overview
“Opens the subject to anyone...explores all the standard framing methods for floors, walls, ceilings, and roofs... demystifies some of the more obscure tasks, such as building gable dormers, multiple-pitched roofs, staircase construction, and structural foundations. There’s even a section devoted to post-and-beam construction. The book concludes with a discussion about door and window installation, exterior siding and interior finishing.”—Popular Mechanics.Synopsis
"Opens the subject to anyone...starts out with detailed coverage of standard building materials and up-to-date how-to information about modern power tools and safety requirements...explores all the standard framing methods for floors, walls, ceilings and roofs...demystifies some of the more obscure tasks, such as building gable dormers, multiple-pitched roofs, staircase construction and structural foundations. There's even a section devoted to post-and-beam construction. The book concludes with a discussion about door and window installation, exterior siding and interior finishing."—Popular Mechanics. 320 pages, 654 b/w illus., 8 1/4 X 11.
Book Details
Published
December 1, 1993
Publisher
Sterling Publishing
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780806985947