From lot stakeout to interior finishing, this text provides coverage of all the capentry basics, starting with descriptions and illustrations of the tools you'll need and how to use them through to important safety precautions.
Fully updated home carpentry, construction, and remodeling instruction This thoroughly revised, DIY guide takes you through every step of home construction. Discover how to select tools, pour foundations, build walls and floors, and install tiles—even handle electrical wiring, plumbing, and insulation! Easy-to-follow instructions, along with more than 1,500 photos and illustrations, clearly demonstrate each technique. Logically organized by building stages, this new edition offers complete coverage of home remodeling, building additions, and making household repairs. Carpentry and Construction, Sixth Edition, shows how to tackle: • Site preparation • Footings and foundations • Concrete slabs and floors • Floor frames • Walls and roof framing • Windows and doors • Exterior and interior walls • Electrical Wiring • Plumbing • Insulation • Interior finishing • Kitchen and bathroom remodeling • Tile setting • Solar heating installation • Termite prevention • Installation of Skylights • Fences, decks, and patios • Private water and sewage systems • And much more
Complete coverage of building trades, basic construction materials, reading prints and technical material, hand and machine tools, and workmanship knowledge how and how-to.
Carpentry & Building Construction is a comprehensive carpentry program that focuses on residential construction with many procedures also applying to light commercial construction. The informative text provides detailed, heavily illustrated information about materials, tools, and processes, with many step-by-step procedures. Includes hardbound student edition aligned to the content standards.
Carpentry for commercial work is different. Here you'll find instructions for forming, framing, exteriors, interior finish, and cabinet installation in commercial buildings. How to design and build concrete forms, select lumber dimensions, select and install materials based on their fire rating or sound transmission characteristics. Full of illustrations, charts, and tables, to help you build commercial buildings.
Provides information for carpentry students to strengthen their fundamental math skills and teaches them how to apply that knowledge in every step of construction. Includes in-text exercises and examples, diagrams, layouts, and illustrations, a reproducible estimate form, a glossary, and an index.
Math for Carpentry and Construction is designed specifically for carpentry and construction students, allowing them to learn and apply basic math skills in a very relatable context. Each unit begins with an explanation of the basic concept behind each math operation, followed by clear instructions for performing the operation, and a variety of carpentry- and construction-related practice problems to reinforce the concept. This format provides a practical approach to learn important math skills and troubleshooting skills that will be used in carpentry shops and construction sites. A new Appendix, Construction Diagrams and Terms, defines and illustrates key trade terms and components that students may have not yet been exposed to in their carpentry/construction program.
Scenic Construction for the Stage is a comprehensive guide to the practical processes involved in constructing scenery for the theatre. Offering key insight into the role of the scenic carpenter, Mark Tweed details the progression from interpreting design, model boxes and drawings, to material selection, fabrication and finishing. Additional topics include advice for developing accuracy, finish and consistency; tool selection and sharpening; CDM, Health and Safety; practical workshop mathematics and geometry, and how to fit ironmongery. With an in-depth but accessible approach, this practical book offers advice on how to start out and improve as a scenic carpenter, building a solid repertoire of reliable techniques and working practices to achieve professional results. Includes a foreword by Sir Kenneth Branagh and illustrated throughout with 350 colour photographs and 34 technical drawings and detailed step-by-step instructions.