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Item Description

This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication titled:
House Framing Manual.

A practical 1901 era manual on the laying out, framing and raising timber houses on the balloon principle.
together with a complete and easily understood system of roof framing.

This CD publication is a wonderful exploration and explanation of the methods of framing with comparisons and explanations of “how to” solve most of the problems a carpenter or architect might confront in framing up a designed home.

Please read the detailed content pages further down this page.

Here are Sample page images from this CD  
Contents

Part 1 - Balloon and Braced Frame Houses
Chapter 1 General Description of Balloon Frames, Framed Sills, and their Construction.
Chapter II First Floor Beams or Joists, Story Sections, Second Floor Beams, Studding, Framing of Door and Window Openings, Wall Plates and Roof Timbers.
Chapter III Laying out and working balloon frames, girders, sills, posts and studding.
Chapter IV Laying out first and second floor joists or beams, ceiling joists and wall plates.
Chapter V. Laying out and framing the roof.
Chapter VI. Raising
Chapter VII. Braced frame houses, how to lay out frame and construct them.
Chapter VIII. How to frame out bay windows
Chapter IX. The construction of framed tenements and factories
Chapter X. How to construct a timber framed auditorium
Chapter XI. The construction of reviewing stands.
Chapter XII. How to build a timber grain elevator.
Chapter XIII. Framing projecting stories and bay windows, also general hints.
Chapter XIV. How to frame cheap timber bridges for roadways, etc.
chapter XV. How to frame a log cabin

Part II How to frame the timbers for a brick house.
Chapter I. General Description, first story fireproof floors, wood floor beams and studding.
Chapter II. Second and uper story beams, partitions. Bridging and angular framing.
Chapter III. Fireproofing wood floors, partitions and doors.
Chapter IV. Roofs, Bulkheads and fronts.
Chapter V. Composite, or wood and iron construction
Chapter VI. Heavy beams and girders, and raising same.

Part III Roof Framing
Chapter I. Simple Roofs.
Chapter II. Hip and Valley roofs.
Chapter III. Roofs of irregular plan
Chapter IV. Pyramid roofs
Chapter V. Hexagonal roofs
Chapter VI. Conical or circular roofs
Chapter VII. Framing, sheeting and slating an eyebrow window.

Frame Construction Details Illustrations
The purpose of these plates of frame construction details is to deal with practical problems arising in the construction of frame buildings,
to serve as a guide to those engaged in actual construction work, to prospective builders, to architects, and to
students of architecture and building construction in the preparation of drawings.

Information incorporated herein has been compiled from common practice as well as from research and the result of work of the best authorities obtainable.
Details are shown in suech a manner as to be easily applied.

PDF file format 127 pages.

In every field of endeavor, in each era, there are normal ways of doing things, typical methods of tradecraft, methods know to the practitioners.

Over time these become knows as “standards of practice” and with the advent of standards and vendors supplying standardized parts and components these become automatic defaults.

However, even the smallest change from the “normal” or “typical” can confront the tradesmen with uncertainties as to how to best effect the design they receive on paper.

Even if the design is explicit enough in framing a structure to be specific down to the individual stick dimensions, the “how to put it together” issue still exists. Does one put in temporary bracings and if so where? Does one assemble sections and then lift or tilt them into place or assemble as you go? The “order of battle” and “methods of attack” can make all the difference from a short job, or even a disaster, to a long one or quality or lack thereof.

Understanding the options in how to assemble, even a fixed design, can make the process vastly less or more efficient and contribute to quality outcomes, or the lack of quality.

In the early days of more standardized “stick construction” there were huge variations in how to frame up a structure, and much of this was not detailed in drawings, but left to the practices and tradecraft of the carpenters.

As much as architects of the era did their best to control quality, in the end, it was in the hands of the trades-people who assembled the homes and structures.

From dimensional lumber to standardized electrical outlets and wire and pipe etc. to standardized door widths and such … the architectural and construction industry have been improved by these efforts to explain and create standardized methods and standards of practice.

For these reasons this book, and similar ones on methods of framing are particularly important.

We can learn how to handle non-standard designs and frame most efficiently and thus do better architectural designs and specifications, and we can avoid giving trades-folk potentially problematic designs without sufficient specifications on how to approach the construction of those elements.

This book is a wonderful exploration and explanation of the methods of framing with comparisons and explanations of “how to” solve most of the problems a carpenter or architect might confront in framing up a designed home.

After reading this one almost feels ready to get a hammer and saw and some nails and go “ad lib” a design in actual construction … just for the challenge of it.

Really good “how to do it” books are not in abundance, and this is one of them.

It was the excellence of explanations in books like this that helped convert the construction industry to better and more standardized practices.

Still, understanding the reasoning on why and having all explained in great drawings is exactly what the doctor ordered if knowledge and understanding of construction and framing is what you seek

Get this one …

I learned some tricks that have already been useful, sure you will also.




 

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In CD ROM format, you can easily enlarge the contents of the pages on your computer screen to see more details and with better clarity.

you can also print out select pages of text and pictures as needed for your particular project you are working on. We even have a customer who printed out the illustrations to create a collage background paper for her scrapbook project!

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