Practical
Australian Carpentry
Book 1 - Framing and Construction
by Jack Barrington, Dieter
Mylius and Stuart Arden
(Australian Publication)
Softcover
210 x 280mm
255pp
Published by McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
R.R.P.$89.90
ISBN 0-07-452128-4
Extract from Introduction of book:
Carpentry is often described as that part of woodwork which deals with rough, solid kinds of work in timber, such as that of house building or ship building. Joinery is assumed to mean that part of woodwork where the detailed, lighter fitting out of buildings and manufacture of doors, windows, etc. is involved. Other sections of fine woodwork come under the disciplines of cabinet-making and woodcrafts.
Publications on many aspects of carpentry have been available, often from overseas, for many years, and while most aspects of the wide areas of carpentry and joinery have been covered in some form or other, there has been a tendency for such books to cover areas of cabinet-making and woodcrafts as well. But the role of the professional carpenter is that of constructor of timber work in housing and light industrial work; in addition, he or she has the opportunity to specialise in areas from heavy composite construction to door and window manufacture, and the home recladding industry.
It has been shown that Australia's home building industry is one of the most efficient, and hence, most cost effective in the world. Brick veneer construction, predominant in the eastern States, involves constructing a light timber frame surrounded by a skin of single brickwork. There are many arguments for and against this form of construction, but, if we take into account that no one form of building is suitable in all situations, it is a type of building that can be built quickly at reasonable cost, for the realisation of the great Australian dream owning one's own home.
In this book every effort has been made to present the carpenter with the requisite knowledge for the trade. Carpenters often find that they are the builders on site, and as such must have a working understanding of all other trades that will be their responsibility or that will come under their control. For this reason this book may prove invaluable to the amateur builder seeking a reference and practical manual on how to build a timber-framed house.
The book has been structured according to the way the trade course is presented to students as they progress through their formal training with obvious areas grouped together to give some continuity. This book is Volume One, and should take keen students well into their second year of study and practice, with more detailed work and more complex structures following in Volume Two.
The authors have designed the book around the central theme of a timber-framed cottage taking shape, and thus the construction phases are followed, from preparation of site, through base and wall structure, to the construction of the two most common roof forms, the gable and the hip. This will enable the reader to find relevant sections easily; also, all information on a particular structural element is found in one or two chapters. It should be mentioned that carpentry is not a trade of "blacks and whites", and the apprentice carpenter will soon find that there is more than one way of satisfactorily completing a task. Obviously not all methods can be covered in one or two volumes, but the authors trust that the text will enable carpenters to quickly tackle any new tasks confronting them.
About the Authors: The senior author is Jack Barrington, well respected former Senior Tutor and Head of Carpentry and Joinery at North Sydney Technical College, who has contributed his vast amount of accumulated knowledge, gained by teaching students in the trade over many years. His coauthors are Dieter Mylius, Manager of Information Services at the Sydney Building Information Centre and newspaper columnist on building matters; and Stuart Arden, architect, owner-builder, graphic designer and until recently, Tutor of the School of Building at Liverpool and Randwick TAFE Colleges. Stuart now teaches Interior Design at Sydney College of the Arts.
Illustrations: Black & White
Units of Measurement: Metric
Contents
Introduction
Chapter
1 - The work place and hand tools
- Safety
- On-site equipment
-
Measuring and marking equipment
- Hand saws
- Chisels
- Claw hammers
- Boring tools
- Questions
Chapter
2 - Trade calculations and drawing
- Metric units
- The electronic
calculator
- Plane geometry
- Solid figures
- Building drawings
-
Questions
Chapter
3 - Electric-powered hand tools
- Electrical safety
- Portable generators
- Portable power saw
- Mitre saw
- Electric drill
- Questions
Chapter
4 - Timber framing joints
- Half-lapped joint
- Housed joint
-
Butt joint
- Stopped housed joint
- Splayed housed joint
- Notched
joint
- Birdsmouth
joint
- Joints used to extend timber in length
- Questions
Chapter
5 - Timber fastenings
- Nails
- Nailing practice
- Woodscrews
- Coach screws
- Bolts and nuts
- Questions
Chapter
6 - Timber as a building material
- Growth of tree
- Structure of
wood
- Conversion to commercial sizes
- Moisture content
- Seasoning
- Effect of shrinkage on timber
- Defects in timber
- Preservation
of timber
- Timber trade terms
- Ordering timber
- Timber grading
-
Timber identification
- Questions
Chapter
7 - Building regulations and set out
- Building
regulations
- Setting out
- Levelling
- Setting out on site
-
Setting out on sloping sites
- Setting out screeds for concrete slab
-
Questions
Chapter
8 - Concrete and formwork
- Concrete materials
- Proportions for concrete
- Mixing and placing
- Concrete formwork
- Formwork terms
- Formwork
materials
- Formwork design
- Formwork for a concrete beam
- Formwork
for a concrete column
- Formwork for a concrete floor
- Formwork for a
concrete wall
- Questions
Chapter
9 - Timber ground floor construction
- Footings
and foundation walls
- Bricks and brickwork
- Base structure
- Posts
and stumps
- Bearers and joists
- Strip flooring
- Fitted floors
-
Platform floors
- Sheet flooring
- Wet area flooring
- Questions
Chapter
10 - Wall framing and cladding
- Wall framing parts
- Arrangements
of studs at wall junction
- Bracing
- Timber sizes
- Setting out wall
plates
- Assembly of wall frames
- External wall coverings
- Fitting
window frames
- Questions
Chapter
11 - Introduction to roofing and ceiling structure
- Roofing materials
and pitch
- Pitch calculations
- Ceiling framing
- Questions
Chapter
12 - The gable roof
- The structural members
- Setting out rafters
- Preparing the ridge and purlins
- Erecting the gable roof
- Roof
member sizes
- Skillion roof
- Questions
Chapter
13 - The hipped roof
- Roof members
- Setting out the hipped roof
-
Crown end assembly and shortening distances
- Cutting rafters to length
-
Erecting the hipped roof
- The hip and valley roof
- Setting out the minor
roof
- Setting out valley rafters and creepers
- Questions
Chapter
14 - Roofing tables
- Calculating rafter lengths
- Roof calculations
- The steel roofing square
- Setting out with the steel square
- Direct
method of roof bevels
- Questions
Chapter
15 - Internal
fixing
- Interior
wall sheeting
- Timber panelling
- Wet area fixing
- Doorsets
-
Door hanging
- Trim
- Questions
Chapter
16 - Brick veneer construction
- Footings
- Ventilation and damp proofing
- Setting out a brick veneer building
- Windows in brick veneer walls
- Storey rod
- Slab on ground floor construction
- Questions
Glossary
Index
Glossary
Index