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

Haun, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561580015 ISBN 13: 9781561580019

Publisher: Taunton Press, 1992

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 this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1561580015
• ISBN 13: 9781561580019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224