The Very Efficient Carpenter: Basic Framing for Residential Construction (For Pros / By Pros)

Larry Haun

ISBN 10: 156158326X / ISBN 13: 9781561583263

Published by Taunton Press, Incorporated, 1998

Seller Inventory # 181183254

Synopsis:

Here's your chance to become a more efficient carpenter. Larry Haun has been a production framer for more than 35 years and a teacher of apprentices for more than 20. In this book, Haun shows you, step by step, all the techniques he uses to frame a basic house, from laying down the sills to cutting the rafters. You'll learn about: cutting and installing posts and girders joisting and sheathing fluently laying out, cutting, assembling, and raising walls framing gable roofs, hips and valleys, and truss roofs building various types of stairs There is an opening chapter on tools, plans, codes, permits, lumber, and materials, and additional information throughout the book on safety and site-built tools. The Very Efficient Carpenter is no less than a complete course in basic framing.

About the Author: Larry Haun has worked as a carpenter in southern California for four decades and has been a Habitat for Humanity volunteer since the 1980s. He has taught apprentice carpenters at a local community college for more than 20 years. Larry lives in coastal Oregon, where he continues to build houses for Habitat.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Very Efficient Carpenter: Basic Framing ...
Publisher: Taunton Press, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New