Building with Engineered Lumber

by John Spier

Framing is bread-and-butter work for builders. Builders who want to stay on top of their business and meet customer demands for quality materials and excellent workmanship need to know about engineered lumber-how it affects home design, and how different types of engineered lumber are ordered, stored, handled, cut and installed. "Building with Engineered Lumber" delivers this information clearly, comprehensively, and in well-organized chapters that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561586978
• ISBN13: 9781561586974
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

absolutely packed with tips

This book is only 128 pages, but I would have gotten my money's worth from 10 pages. Absolutely packed with information, amply illustrated, and even includes lots of information on metal framing connectors. The book addresses it all, from floors to walls and roofs, beams and posts, LVL, LSL, PSL, Glulams, I-joists (and I've got all of them except glulams in my new addition) My main wish is that he would expand the scope of the book to include those framing connectors. He mainly addresses the use of them with engineered lumber, but there isn't a good pro-sumer guide to these outside the manufacturer's datasheets. Another item that I would love to see covered is hybrid steel/lumber construction. Filch beams, steel ibeams with wood plates, etc.