Professional Roof Cutter's Handbook

This book is a useful tool for all seasoned roof cutters & a must for all aspiring roof cutters. It is full of charts & teaches everything needed to know about roof cutting. For example: 1) How to cut Gables, Hips, Full-Hips, Dutches & Bull Nose Roofs. Has charts to figure common rafters & hip-valley lengths for roofs up to a 12 & 12 pitch. 2) How to cut hip & valley rafters properly. Has a chart to adjust the seat cuts to plane in with the common & jack rafters. 3) Shows how to cut jack rafters to tie to the joist, put them any place desired. 4) How to cut gable studs. A gable stud regression chart is included. 5) How to figure balloon & rake wall heights with charts to make this easy. 6) How to figure rafter lengths for offset ridges. 7) How to figure rafter lengths for non-equal pitches. 8) How to convert from feet to inches, etc. Conversion chart included. This book has 12 different already solved roofs of moderate difficulty with all therafter & hip lengths figured from different layout points.Greene, Marc B. is the author of 'Professional Roof Cutter's Handbook' with ISBN 9780961990107 and ISBN 0961990104.