SBE Builders

Strong Built Establishments Builders

SBE Builders is a commercial and residential framing contractor located in Discovery Bay California. Dedicated to the art of Carpentery & Roof Framing. We are the professionals for the future of the craft of carpentry.

SBE Builders Commercial & Residential Photo Gallery
Nunns Pool House
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Knoll Organic Farm
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Traylor Fire Damage Remodel Oakland CA for Wingard Construction
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IPE Decking with Radius Steps
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115 Eleanor Drive
Woodside, California
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Stick frame residential building.
5600 sq. ft. building with gambrel roof and radius rafter tails..

 
50 Crescent Drive
Palo Alto, California
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Stick frame residential building.
7000 sq. ft. building with job site built roof trusses.

 
Harrison Street
San Francisco, California
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Stick frame residential building.
5600 sq. ft. 3 story building.

 
Harry's Hofbrau
Brentwood, California
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Stick frame commercial building.
7248 sq. ft. commercial building.

 
LakeView Business Park
Discovery Bay, California
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Stick frame commercial building with 60+ Hardy Frames, 100+ holdowns and 85+ arches.
22,000 sq. ft. commercial building with 10,000 sq. ft. of arched walk-ways and 7 towers.
Stick frame commercial building
 
Sunset Plaza
Brentwood, California
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Stick frame commercial building with 250+ holdowns and circular tower.
32,000 sq. ft. commercial building with 4,000 sq. ft. of arched walk-ways and 6 towers.
Stick frame commercial building
 
McClery Residence
Discovery, California
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Stick frame residential building with deck and boat dock.
2600 sq. ft. residential building with 18 Hardy Frames, 15+ Holdowns and TJI 360 Joist for rafters.
Stick frame residential building
 

  
  
SBE Builders
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Holy Grail of Roof Framing Geometry & Trigonometry

Book I & Book II. These roof framing books were written to make complex roof framing simple..

The Art of the Line for Carpentry

The book includes step by step instructions on developing stereotomic drawings on Art du Trait de Charpente, Trestles, Tréteau à devers, Canted Trestles, Louis Mozerolles' Joiners Table, Sawhorses, and the Saint Andrews' Cross, twisted crosses. You'll also find theories on hip rafter shift-offset, standard roof framing kernel trait drawings, German Schiften DP-Shadow Line techniques, folding net roof surface and net plane geometric development, when hip rafters collide, the Warlock Cut, and developing upper and lower claws on rafters using Axioms.

HG IV Circular Work in Carpentry

The book includes step-by-step instructions on developing stereotomic double curvature drawings for circular work in carpentry. Some of the techniques presented in this book are thousands of years in the making. As carpenters, we shouldn't have to re-invent the wheel each time we are faced with new challenges. There is a likely hood that someone, that came before us, has already refined a technique that we can use today. The tools might have changed, but the piece of wood that it is twisting and turning remains the same piece of wood.

Rafter Tools+ for iPhone

Rafter Tools+ is a rafter calculator for complex roof framing angles that other roof framing calculators don't offer.

RafterTools+

Stair Tangent for iPhone

This iPhone app is for rough frame carpenters that don't build stairs everyday, but could use an stair app calculator to check their stair building calculations.
Build a set of stairs that you are gonna be proud of.
With Stair Tangent you can elimenate cumulative math errors when building - constructing stairs.

Stair Tangent
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Crown Molding Tools
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