Overview
Main description
A complete, step-by-step guide to CARPENTRY AND CONSTRUCTION
Revised and updated, Carpentry & Construction, Fifth Edition, takes you through every step of house construction in such detail that you can use it to build your own home! Clear instructions, along with more than 1,500 photographs and illustrations, demonstrate each phase of construction--from selecting tools, to pouring the foundation, to finishing the interior. This how-to handbook also covers remodeling, additions, and repairs.
Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or a professional contractor, you'll find all the task-simplifying details you need for your projects, each logically organized by building stages. Learn how to tackle:
- Footings and foundations
- Framing and roofing
- Windows and doors
- Exterior and interior walls
- Wiring
- Plumbing
- Insulation
- Interior finishing
- Kitchen and bathroom remodeling
- Tiling
- Solar heating
- Termite prevention
- Skylights
- Fences, decks, and patios
- Private ater and sewage systems
- And much more
Featuring new material covering the latest green building options, tools of the trade, construction methods, code updates, and a 16-page color insert, this book helps you get the job done better and faster. There's no other resource that covers the home building process as thoroughly and expertly as Carpentry & Construction, Fifth Edition.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Let's Get Started; Chapter 2. Site Preparation; Chapter 3. Footings and Foundations; Chapter 4. Concrete Slabs and Floors; Chapter 5. Floor Frames; Chapter 6. Framing Walls; Chapter 7. Framing the Roof; Chapter 8. Roofs and Roofing; Chapter 9. Windows and Doors; Chapter 10. Exterior Walls; Chapter 11. House Wiring; Chapter 12. Plumbing; Chapter 13. Insulation; Chapter 14. Interior Walls and Ceilings; Chapter 15. Interior Finishing; Chapter 16. Special Construction Methods; Chapter 17. Maintenance and Remodeling; Chapter 18. The Carpenter and the Industry; Chapter 19. Bathrooms; Chapter 20. Construction for Solar Heating; Chapter 21. Alternative Framing Methods; Chapter 22. Alternative Foundation Systems; Chapter 23. Private Water Systems; Chapter 24. Private Sewage Facilities
Author comments
Mark R. Miller is a professor of Technology and coordinator for the Industrial Management programs for the School of HRD & Technology at the University of Texas at Tyler.
Rex Miller is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Technology at State University of New York at Buffalo, where he taught technical curriculums at the college level for more than 40 years.
