Taunton's for Pros By Pros: Framing Roofs

Taunton's for Pros By Pros: Framing Roofs is an informative publication that accomplished roof framers rely on. Containing a variety of techniques, tools and trade secrets that serve to ensure the complex and dangerous job of roof framing is done properly and safely, this text also features a collection of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine that show you how the foremost framers work with precision and speed. This text is an essential how to reference that will also allow you to discover what it takes to master the craft of roof framing. 160 pages.

Written by the pros who actually do the work, these articles will help you to:

• design and build common, and not-so-common, residential roofs
• lay out and cut valley rafters with compound angles
• frame hips, valleys, eyebrows, and gable overhangs
• calculate tricky measurements quickly and accurately
• work safely and efficiently with roof trusses
• wave time by using production techniques

This newly revised edition comes with 30% more content, including the latest techniques and tools with updated illustrations and photos.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Hip and Gable Roofs
  
• Part 2: Dormers and Bays
  
• Part 3: Trusses