Framing Roofs (For Pros By Pros)

by Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Book Overview

The For Pros By Pros titles are compilations of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, selected by the editors of the magazine and organized by subject. New articles from recent issues of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561583286
• ISBN13: 9781561583287
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good reference for stick roofs

In recent years, the roof has become the focal point of many NA homes. No longer content with simple styles, rangy, monstrous roofs are the norm. Additionally many of them are likely to be built with either trusses, or maybe manufactured wood sticks. These techniques shave dollars right into the developers pockets. And frankly have become the norm in the last 5 to 10 years. They aren't much covered in this book.The reality is that these new story and a half high, architect/engineer designed truss roofs, factory manufactured, and crew/crane installed are a little much for the average homeowner.On the other hand, if you want to cut your own roof, this comparatively recent book gives you all the info you will need to build 2x roofs in many styles. It's a good basic reference, that covers a lot of procedural detail. I find it very useful. If you are only looking for a roof's worth of studs, you will have no difficulty finding the materials for a stick built roof, of generally higher quality than the truss roofs so popular today.