How to’s on building from the carpenter of 26 years
Archive for January, 2009
oak plywood
really is not all oak.Just the side or sides(top and bottom) that will show are.It is a verneer over various types of sub woods.Most would never know this unless you could see the edges of the sheet.
Oak plywood being a bookmatched verneer shows to the skilled eye that it is a man altered product,as you can see the same grain pattern over and over on thew 4 x 8 plywood sheet.
Red oak ply was apx $32-38 a sheet in summer of 2007.White oak plywood , if you could find it, was $90 + per sheet.Big differance,as most of our white oak is shipped overseas…
fire retardant plywood is too costly to use in your home
Plywood that has been treated with a fire retarder chemical is used in commercial and some industrial buildings.You will know it on sight as it is a pinkish color,not like normal plywood.Hospitals are required to use fire retardant wood in any enclose wall space, studs are metal,but sometimes F.T. wood must be used for backing between the studs.But if there is ever a fire this helps to cut down on combustables.
Fire retardant plywood is expensive and would not be feassiable to use in a home
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How drying wood can save you money.
Kiln dryed vs. Air dried.
Drying wood is not the process of putting it in an oven and driving the moisture out by force and cooking it. A wood kiln does not resemble a kiln for firing clay. Drying wood is critical to its overall performance and value. I?ve read that the kiln drying process is the most time consuming and expensive of the conversion of logs to lumber.
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12 Place Wood Test Tube Rack, Drying Pins
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Antique Linen Drying Rack Wood W/ Nails & Measurement
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old Shaker wood herb drying rack
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Roma Wooden Pasta Drying Rack (Beech Wood)
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IMPERIA STENDIPASTA WOOD PASTA DRYING STAND NEVER USE
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Wood Designs Paint Drying Rack
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WOOD Kiln Operators Handbook Lumber ! Wood Drying CD
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Roma Wooden Pasta Drying Rack (Beech Wood)
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Building Stairs
Building stairs is not diffcult if you are good with some carpentry skills.A good plan ahead of time,some carpenters math and lay-out is needed to be successful.
This article is for a basic set of stairs that would be for a deck,or a basement stair,ect.If you are looking for finished stairs cases go to—
1st and formost before building your stairs
Consult the national building-code requirements(BOCA) and the local building-code requirements.Somethime theres differant codes for differant locations.If it is an indoor or outdoor stairs ,does make a differance too.You can usally call your local building inspector for the current code.Building Codes are not against you but help protect you and others from hazards.
2nd is design
The most widely held code for stair is 7 5/8″ rise max. and no less than 10″ for tread width.I personally like a 6 1/2 rise,as is mostly required for extior stairs and it is easy for someone who has a physcial problem,to climbing the stairs.You would be suprised how much differance 1″ makes!I also like using 2×12 for my treads.If it is over a 30″ wide stairway,use 3 stringers.That way if anything heavy is moved up or down the steps it will be able to bear it,easily.I always use 2×12 for my stringer too.
Check the headroom (if appalicable) you need apx 6′- 8″ from the nose of the stair that will be directly under the head object for clearance..
Heres a free stair caculator (much thanks to the blocklayer.com)http://www.blocklayer.com/Stairs/StairsEng.aspx
The math part
if the distance between the upper floor(the deck) down to the lower floor (ground) is say 8″ or 96 ”
You would, using a calutor 96″ divided by 6.625 (6 5/8″)= 14.4905″ or 14 and about 1/2 risers which really will not work,we want a very close even number of risers. so … We play around a bit with the fractional part of the desired rise .to find the decimal equi. of 3/4 divide 3 by 4=.75 7/8=.875
96″ divided by 6.875″ (6 7/8″)=13.963 risers which is close enough to the full desired 14 stair risers.
More later
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Building Stairs
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