Carpentry Books

Carpentry

Selected from among the best of Fine Homebuilding Magazine, here are some amazing carpentry stories. Some rough carpentry techniques are replicated in the book Framing Floors Walls and Ceilings, but others represent techniques you may have never seen before – like aligning eaves on irregularly pitched roofs, straightening framed walls, and framing a roof valley. You’ll find practical techniques on how to install vinyl siding, horizontal wood siding, and wood clapboards. Then you plunge into the rules of finish carpentry – how to make a raised-panel wainscoting, the secrets of installing crown molding around a cathedral ceiling – all fully illustrated. You’ll also learn techniques for building an expensive-looking ornate fireplace mantel from plywood and oak.

Then the book delves into the basics of carpentry – installing doors and windows. You’ll learn techniques for installing new windows in old walls, new doors in old jambs, as well as techniques for installing French, bi-fold, pre-hung and sliding doors. You’ll find out about cutting basic stairs, installing disappearing attic stairs, installing handrails, and how to build squeak-free stairs. Next, you’ll see how to build attractive cabinets and built-ins that bring beauty and practicality to any home. You’ll discover how to construct a built-in hutch, design and build a custom entertainment center, a bookshelf that fits the customer’s needs and the available space, install kitchen cabinets as a one-man crew, build simple on-site cabinets, and how to enhance any room with a storage window seat.

Every project is carefully illustrated with large clear diagrams and full-color photos so you can see every detail and how it goes together.

$24.50

The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook

Published by: WH Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-945186-01-4
100 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 0.66 lbs

Increase your roof framing knowledge and understanding as you follow veteran roof cutter Will Holladay through the process of calculating two custom-home roofs.

In The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook, you’ll see the principles of Holladay’s A Roof Cutter’s Secrets come alive. Accompany Will as he methodically builds two “real life” complicated roofs. You’ll see firsthand how to determine angles and calculations for the actual cuts, based on the plans in the back of this book. When you complete the exercises presented, you’ll not only know how to cut complicated roofs faster and more efficiently, you’ll also be able to “think like a roof cutter” and formulate your own plan of approach to actual roof cutting based on a set of plans.

The roof framing details featured in The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook expand on the descriptions found in A Roof Cutter’s Secrets

$19.95

The JLC Guide to
Decks and Porches

Decks and porches are a favorite with homeowners, but can represent a challenge to contractors. It’s difficult to build attractive, structurally-sound; low-maintenance outdoor spaces that survive the rigors of weather, varying soil conditions, while battling rot and mildew damage.

Now there are new building codes and a host of new products to complicate and, hopefully improve, building decks and porches. In fact, they may even make decks and porches look better, last longer, and offer more possibilities than ever before.

This new book is filled with large, full-color photos and illustrations that show you how to use the latest technology to build ledgers, railing connections, and footings that with withstand the test of time. You’ll find the most common code violations and how to avoid them. You’ll find footing and framing techniques for decks and porches that succeed and some that failed. You’ll find finishes that will last for years, water prevention techniques, and low-voltage lighting that will make the deck you build look custom and one-of-a-kind. There are even proven ideas for adding brick, stone, and tile to decks and porches.

It’s been said that a contractor is made by his reputation. Any contractor can build a deck. But a deck to that passes Code, and still looks beautiful after a few seasons stands as a tribute to your ingenuity and reputation. You’ve built something that will drive customers to your door for years to come. This book will show you how to do that.

$36.95

The JLC Guide to Production
Carpentry

Enhance your reputation and get more jobs by learning high-production techniques you can apply to most of your carpentry jobs.

Discover how to plan and complete custom, remodel and new projects based on high-production techniques often used in track homes. With the help of this new book you’ll learn framing layout rules of thumb to apply to every job, gang-cutting rafters for efficiency and speed, assembling truss roofs on the ground, fast-tracking a second-story addition, running crown molding – production style, short cuts in installing framed cabinets, installing and trimming out manufactured stairs to save time and money, framing with pre-cut components, building a pop-up shed dormer, floor framing with I-joists, and much more.

Filled with large, clear, full color photos and drawings that clearly show how to apply the time-saving principles outlined in this book.

$36.95