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Wood Framing Portable Handbook

Wood Framing Portable Handbook

Product Code/ISBN: 71342478
$60.95 - $60.95
$60.95
$60.95 - $60.95
$60.95

Take all the answers to wood framing questions to your job sites. Featuring a compact format, Wood Framing Portable Handbook, by registered building inspector Jonathan F. Hutchings, is the perfect, easy-to-carry, on-the-job tool.

With it in hand, you'll avoid errors and code violations and benefit from time-saving tips and money-saving techniques. Quick access to charts, tables, and equations provides reliable on-site guidance. Plus you even have space to input your own notes and checklists.

Packed with detailed illustrations, it contains everything builders need to know about:

  • Balloon and platform framing
  • Framing fasteners
  • Structural diaphragms
  • Joists, girders, and pintles
  • Frame to foundation connection
  • Adhesives
  • Wind and earthquake loads
  • Fire resistant framing
  • Load bearing exterior walls
  • Stud partition wall
  • Prefabricated framing assemblies
  • Grade marks
  • Span ratings
  • Glulams
  • Curved panels
  • Roof truss erection loads
  • Bridging and bracing
  • Connectors and holdowns
  • And hundreds more wood framing considerations!