About this item
The bestselling step-by-step framing guide - updated and expanded to meet 2018 codes and standards Complete Book of Framing, Second Edition - Updated and Expanded is a comprehensive guide to rough carpentry and framing, written by an expert with over forty years of framing experience. This book guides the reader through step-by-step framing instructions for floors, walls, roofs, door and window openings, and stairs. Hundreds of full-color illustrations and photos enable novice and professional framers to understand and master framing techniques. This Updated and Expanded Second Edition includes the framing techniques of the 2018 International Building Code (IBC) , International Residential Code (IRC) , and updated OSHA rules. It also includes new coverage of today's electric tools, wind and earthquake framing, medical and physiological factors of framing, and a revised safety chapter.
About the Author
With an MBA from Kent State University, after the shootings, I started pounding nails and ended with a lifetime as a framing contractor. At my career height I declared myself the most knowledgeable framer in the world. This claim was supported by writing the "Complete Book of Framing" the most sold framing book in the world, translated in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese. After retiring I began working on this book, which I had been writing in my head all my life. It is a sci-fi romance with a lively young group of Arzolans on an interstellar journey that takes them on many exciting and adventurous diversions. Intermingled with the exhilaration and romance is a subtle presentation of an origin theory of the Universe, an origin theory of our species, an origin story of the megaliths on Earth and an original look at evolution to mutual life. It is an enjoyable adventure that will start you thinking about parts of your own existence
