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Special tables give the number of joists, studs, or rafters in a floor, ceiling, wall or roof of given dimension. Hes proclaimed for years that the best method for finding the correct lengths for hip rafters and laying out the back bevel angles, hip rafter side cut angle, was in the swansons blue book that you get when you purchase their speedsquare. Swanson tool company speed square with black markings and. Carpentry midterm test green book interior design 3653 01 with. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Empire 52003893 e3992 12in tb rafter square, blue, 12inch. Professional tradesmen use rafter and framing squares to save time on roof construction projects. Rafter layout with the framing square for school and home.
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Includes blue book of rafter length and roof construction explaining basic construction including rafter length tables. Swanson tool company speed square in the squares department. Please reduce your quantity or change your pickup store to check stock nearby. How to calculate rafter lengths for gable, hip and valley rafters. Input the rafter span on the flat, eave overhang and pitch of the roof. If you add an eaves overhang dimension then the amount the rafter sticks passed the wall will be added to the rafter length. Join napster and access fulllength songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. The speed square includes the swanson blue book of rafter length and roof construction and also features markings for using the swanson onenumber method of rafter layout. Swanson speed square blue book for roof and stairway layout.
I make this plumb cut at the peak with my saw before marking my seat cut or. Shiften or swansons blue book richard birch and i are having a discussion on shiften. The instructions outlined below show the stepbystep procedure to follow for basic roof construction. Dec 14, 2012 it seems you are determined to figure out the rafters using long hand math. Bookrenter becomes rafter, a content platform for colleges. Rafter layout with the framing square for school and home workshop forrest.
All of the necessary cuts for a particular rafter can be laid out. The swanson speed square comes with a pocket sized blue reference book that. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Print full scale paper templates cut and fold over wood to mark and cut angles. Keep in mind that, for most framing jobs, the tongue the skinny side is the vertical cut, and the body the wider side is the horizontal or seat cut. Blackfilled gradations stand out against a matte finish for easy reading. If building is out of square, one hip will be cut a. The roof framers field manual blue palmetto home inspection. Roof construction and rafter lengths instruction book. Pdf epub out of the blue legend lake trilogy book 1. Building stronger customer connections in the digital age by jo. Though, i did note that for the kindle fire needed you to download a free pdf reader. Enter the value for the roof width outside to outside in feet, inches, and fraction, inches and fraction, or use the inches box to enter a value in decimals if that is your preference.
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From the sub fascia at the end of one of the endrafters, i measured up along the rafter 48 and made a mark on the topside of the rafter. Mar 02, 2016 common rafter layout step off method using framing square when building a roof duration. The measuring line on a common rafter with an eave, is located along the side of rafter parallel to. Irwin rafter square reference guide complete instruction book. Out of the blue yonder download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The swanson speed square is our most popular product and remains the most trusted square of its kind. The word pergola originates from the latin pergula which loosely refers to a projecting eave source. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. This calculator helps you make the rafters of the suitable sizes required for your roofing. Joe rafter has books on goodreads, and is currently reading the relationship economy. Swanson tools at fox packaged with blue book of instructions layout bar for outof. Calculating roof material from rafter plans the roof plan shows the rafter direction and spacing but not the rafter length.
The roof framers field manual is presented as a pdf. Once the rafter tails were all the same length, i cut the 2x4 sub fascia and fastened it to the rafter tails with two 3 12 galvanized deck screws per rafter. Hes proclaimed for years that the best method for finding the correct lengths for hip rafters and laying out. Nov 09, 2012 laying the square on the top of the rafter material, i start by scribing the plumb cut at the peak of the rafter. Other tables include conversions of inches of riserun to slope in degrees, conversion of fractions of an inch 2, 116, 18 etc. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Swansons little blue book for roof and stairway layout by.