Description
Roof Building Manual
5th Edition
The Easy Step by Step Guide with Tables & Bevels
by Allan Staines and Lloyd Hiddle
The new improved and enlarged 5th Edition This easy step by step guide describes roof building in an easy to grasp style with new quick and easy table and bevels essential to all trades persons or owner builders.
This manual is for pitching he conventional cut-ion-sit. This step by step guide is full of easy to follow instructions. An indispensable aid for teaching Apprentices, plus quick and easy to use tables and bevels for all roof pitches from 5 degrees to 75 degrees. Bevels drawn on the page ready to transfer directly to the bevel too. A Builder’s dream.
-Roof basics
-Roof designs
-Roofing members and where they fit
-Roofing terms
-The triangle makes it easy
-The Rafter length
-Marking out top plates and ridges
-Marking out rafters
-Cutting out rafters
-Erecting the roof
-Miscellaneous details
-Easy to follow rafter lengths, tables and bevels.
For manufactured truss roof installation use the House Building Manual.
