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.

Building Resource Links for Commercial & Residential Framing

Tiny House Plans
TinyHousePlans.MyWebPal.Com

Special Roof Construction
Special Timber Framing Roof Construction in the UK

Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd.
Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd.

Special Roof Construction
Special Timber Framing Roof Construction in the UK

Timber Structures Of the UK
Timber Framing

Carpenters Fellowship Of the UK
Timber Framing Carpenters in the UK

Wood Workers Of the UK
Wood Workers Of the UK


DO NOT INSTALL WindsorOne Kiln-dried Radiata Pine trim products with out watching this Video by Gary Katz.
Installing Exterior Trim with WindsorONE with Gary Katz


Gary Katz OnLine


This Is Carpentry


The Journal of Light Construction Rough Frame Forum


The Journal of Light Construction Exterior Trim Forum


The Journal of Light Construction Finish Carpentry Forum

ATC-20 guidelines
(ATC)

Building Seismic Safety Council
(BSSC)

Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
(CUREE)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
(EERI)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
(EERI)

The correct way to frame a house , By Tim Uhler

Anything and everything you would ever want to know about framing is at...
Tim Uhler

The correct way to do interior trim house , By Archmolding

Anything and everything you would ever want to know about interior trim carpentry is at...
Archmolding

Knowledge of roof geometry developed starting in the 13th century

Anything and everything you would ever want to know about roof framing geometery is at...
Carpenters from Europe and Beyond web site

Roof Framing Formulas and Diagrams , By Joe Bartok

Anything and everything you would ever want to know about roof framing geometery is at...
Joe Bartok's web site

Dihedrals and Equal Sided Polygons, By Joseph Fusco
www.josephfusco.org

Construction Forums Online Forum
www.constructionforumsonline.com

Joseph Fusco Org - Roof Framing Glossary
www.josephfusco.org

"Wood Structural Panels: Combining Uplift and Shear Resistance" in March 2006 Structure Magazine
www.structuremag.org

Good up todate Informational Articles at APA Products and Applications in the News
www.apawood.org

ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments
Training Materials for Seismic Retrofit of Wood-Frame Homes
www.abag.ca.gov

APA - The Engineered Wood Association
www.apawood.org

Trus Joist, A Weyerhaeuser Business
www.trusjoist.org

LP OSB Rim Board
www.lpcorp.com

Hardy Frame
www.hardyframe.com

Simpson Strong Wood Strong-Wall
www.strongtie.com

Simpson Strong Steel Strong-Wall
www.strongtie.com

Simpson Strong Tie Pressure-Treated Wood FAQs
www.strongtie.com

American Galvanizers Association
www.galvanizeit.org

American Wood-Preservers' Association
www.awpa.com

Arch Wood Protection, Inc.
www.wolmanizedwood.com

Chemical Specialties, Inc.
www.treatedwood.com

Forest Products Laboratory - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
www.fpl.fs.fed.us

GalvInfo Center
www.galvinfo.com

J.H. Baxter
www.chemonite.com

Kop Coat-Trib II
http://kop-coat.com/

Osmose, Inc.
www.osmose.com

Southern Pine Council
www.southernpine.com

U.S. Borax Inc.
www.borax.com

Western Wood Preservers Institute
www.wwpinstitute.org

Wood Treatment Products, Inc.
www.eswoodtreatment.com


  
  
SBE Builders
SBE Builders


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
stairtangent.com

Crown Molding Tools
crownmoldingtools.com

Crown Molding Tools  

Roof Framing Geometry Blog

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