Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series Book 12)

All those of us without traditional skills need to know to build with timber framing Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials. But traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense. However, there is another way... Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers, and owner-builders, methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws, and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening methods. The book includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers, including: the historical background of timber framing crucial design and structural considerations procuring timbers-including different woods, and recycled materials foundations, roofs, and in-filling consdierations the common fasteners. A detailed case study of a timber frame project from start to finish completes this practical and comprehensive guide, along with a useful appendix of span tables and a bibliography. Highly illustrated, this book enables 'the rest of us' to build like the professionals and will appeal to owner-builders, contractors and architects alike. "Post and beam frame structures are integral parts of many building methods, but they require a high degree of craftsmanship, training, time and expense. Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes in depth the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers, and owner-builders - methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws, and commonsense building principles to create post and beam structures in much less time. The book includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers, including: the historical background of timber framing; crucial design and structural considerations; procuring timbers - including different woods, and recycled materials; foundations, roofs, and in-filling considerations; and descriptions of the common fasteners." "Highly illustrated and practical, the book includes a detailed case study of a timber frame project, an appendix of span tables and a bibliography. Enabling 'the rest of us' to build like the professionals, it will appeal to owner-builders, contractors and architects alike." --Résumé de l'éditeur Find out how to build a COVID-19 statistics tracking app for iOS 13 using SwiftUI and Swift 5.1, RESTful API, and JSON parsing About This Video Set up the project and registering for API Understand all the steps involved in app development with SwiftUI Get one month of free iCONS8 access In Detail SwiftUI COVID-19 Statistics Tracking with REST API & Swift 5 is designed to get you up to speed with building a COVID-19 statistics tracking application. This course takes a pragmatic approach to app building, and shows you how to structure your app development and write clean and readable code that can be understood easily. Starting from scratch, you'll gradually progress to building the entire application with the help of expert guidance and tips, along with assets provided to you by the author. Throughout the course, every line of code is typed and explained to help you grasp the steps easily. By the end of this course, you'll have created an app that you'll be able to publish on the app store A manual for all without traditional skills who want to build with timber framing