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A Roof Cutter's Secrets: To Framing the Custom Home

A Roof Cutter's Secrets: To Framing the Custom Home
Item #: 260-0149-02
Author: Will Holladay
Publisher: JLC
ISBN:1-928580-32-7
Format: Paperback
Your Price: $35.95
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A Roof Cutter's Secrets is an advanced practical book for unusual framing on custom homes!
Author Will Holladay shares his insider tips gleaned over decades of cutting roofs. You'll find secrets such as gang-cutting techniques for fast production of hips and valleys, and efficient techniques for post-and-beam roofs and exposed-beam ceilings. You'll be shown jobsite solutions for rake walls, and curved and two-story walls. Includes step-by-step techniques for cutting bay roofs, gambrels, shed, gable and eyebrow dormers. You'll see how to cut uneven pitch gables. You'll find how to do custom work like coffered ceilings, arches and barrel vaults; even round towers, hexagons, octagons, and other polygons. If you've been looking for a book that covers all roof framing with some new tricks you may not have tried before, save time and money with this roof framing exposé. 342 pp.

A Roof Cutter's Secrets: To Framing the Custom Home - Table of Contents:

  • Abbreviation Legend
  • Introduction:
  • Laying the Groundwork
  • Figuring and Framing
  • Plumb, Line, and joist
  • Gable Roofs/Production Roof Cutting
  • Regular Hip Roofs
  • Regular Valley Intersections
  • Roof Stacking
  • Eaves and Plywood
  • Bastard Hips and Valleys
  • Dormers
  • Towers and Polygons
  • Bay Roofs
  • Other Miscellaneous Roofs
  • Beam Work
  • Stairs
  • Pick Up
  • Appendix A: Reference Charts
  • Appendix B: Applying the Construction Master Calculator
  • Appendix C: Tool Resources
  • List of Figures and Photos
  • Index
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