Customer Reviews

Ultimate Guide to House Framing: Plan, Design, Build

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I bought this book along with Graphic Guide to Frame Construction : Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros) (Spiral-bound) and this book is more for the do-it-yourselfer person than the other book. Plenty of color illusrtations to go along to help you. Graphic Guide to Frame Construction : Details for Builders and Designers (For Pros by Pros) is more geared for the professional.

Excellent book. Framing can become an art with technical books like this. If you want to get into framing pick three books and make this one of them. Lots of pictures with just the right amount of instructions. Its the best way to learn and understand framing without being at a building site.

House Framing, Plan, Design, Build, is a very good overview for a novice that is planning to build or add to a home. It does a good job of covering the basics, but is not enough detail for someone to use to completely frame a house or addition.

Clear graphics and very very detailed. No history lessons, author's vision or other personality intrussions as found in other building books. Looks like the technical manual of the platform framing method to me.

Good book, easy to read, understand, good illustrations and applies to do-it your selfers or professionals.

It is good book and good details. Helps understand why, how, where. But I wish this book tells you how to and how much to messure for the house. So thats why I am giving a 4 stars. Its good book that I would recommend it anyone who needs to build a house or future to add on.

We hired someone to frame our house, as it turns out. So I cannot accurately speak to how well this book would have helped us frame our house. But the book does appear to have enough information, and it seems to photograph those things that would be less understood otherwise. It seems to be written for the amateur as well.

the book has every thing you need to know, it has a lot of pictures and it's clear and easy to understand I haven't read it all to leave more details, but from reading here and there, i'd say it's a good book a good book

I thought that this was a very good book especially for the novice carpenter or do-it-yourselfer. This book is very informative with easy to understand pictures and drawings. It does not go too in depth on certain subjects, but it is still everything you need to at least get started on a project. The only thing that I noticed as I was reading, was that a couple of the roof rafter calculations were incorrect, but they were not hard to figure out.

I am not a carpenter nor in the building industry. I have built decks, but a building (shed) was beyond my ability. This book made it easy and I was able to understand all of the construction concepts presented. A very good resource for the money.