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Northwest Indiana Framing
1 commentFirst two are the same home. Third and fourth pictures are the framing of a barrel ceiling and the fifth is the inside of framed lighthouse which was part of another home.
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The Jasper
6 commentsThis is actually the same Mascord floorplan as the other one I posted, but a different elevation. The roof pitches for this one were 8-12 & 10-12. We precut most of the roof and gang cut...
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Muirkirk I-Joist Roof
2 commentsEarly 2008, we started to get really slow. We ended up with 4 custom homes and this was the second one of the year. It was very fun to frame, especially the roof and the specialty...
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Muirkirk Hand Cut
3 commentsThis house just started out as a rambler with a huge roof that we chose to stick frame instead of truss. After we got it framed and saw how much attic there was, we framed that in. The...
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Bernie's House
1 commentWe signed up this customer in the summer of 2007 as the market was starting to slow down. This is a Mascord design...
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Heavy Timber Cross-Gables & Lantern-Tower
2 commentsAfter several years of production framing and finish carpentry, I had the opportunity to cut my teeth as a timber-wright on this incredible mountain-top compound. I worked full-time on this...
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Interior dome under trussed hip
3 comments15000 sq ft 3 story home. Mostly trussed. Some girders 52 feet long, bolted together. Entry trusses raised up 48 inches to allow for dome framing underneath. Dome diameter is 12' with an undrhanging...
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Luxury Home
3 commentsI am a foreman for a framing subcontractor and this is a home my crew and I framed that was on display in a Luxury home tour. The roof was the most exciting...
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Craftsman Roof-A-Rama
This roof had gables upon gables, then dormers upon dormers, and to make sure we didn't relax during a cold and snowy winter, one end finished with hips spinning out over a hexagon porch. We loved...
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Farmhouse renovation
2 commentsStarted with a 1923 farmhouse, razed and rebuilt the existing roof, added 1400 square feet of additions, including an octagonal breakfast nook. Did framing, roofing, siding, replacement windows...
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Complex cut & stack from pre-cut package
7 commentsAs my crew and I took on more complex framing projects, I found the roof framing was bogging us down. Walls and ceilings would go up quickly, then things would grind to slow-mo at the...
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Intersecting Octagons
1 commentHeavy Timbers and Intersecting Octagons created a very interesting floor plan for this house in the hills of Santa Cruz. The Open Beam Framing of the Octagons required steel straps to encircle the...
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Sleepy Hollow Point
2 commentsThis vacation house is sited out on point that projects into the lake and the house house bends around to capture views from every room.
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Hip Roof
The hand cut is a 3/12 slope. The common rafters are 3x8 rough fir, 24" on centre. The hips and valleys are 3x10 rough fir. We beveled our hips and valleys rather than dropping them because the...
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Piano Barn
2 commentsI've done few roof projects and somehow found myself in this one. They tell me I've made a Ship's Knee. I guess it looks like one. Timber Framing is way more difficult, I've found. The valley rafter...
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House of 9 Gables in Alabama
This is the house I built for my family. I did 90% of the work over 15 months. This is built in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Opelika, AL, now a historic district. On this site...
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Lagoon road.
This is another example of an all stick framed roof. The unique part of this roof is the center gable above the curved stairs. The gable is also curved as well as some of the walls on the other end...
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The I-Beam Cabin: Gambrel Roof doubles storage and Dormers add light and space
1 commentI-Beam Cabin is made from collecting materials from Home Center Box Stores for a full year. Just over 90% of these materials were "culled" lumber, returned materials, and damaged...
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Arkansas
3 commentsThis roof has a lot going on. There were very few common rafters due to hips on the back corner of the house and all the little pop-ups in the front. The winding staircase offloads onto nine...
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Juniper Lane
This roof is all stick framed. Don't have any pics of the framing stage. The main roof is a 12/12, but behind the octagon on the right, the roof plane was a 10.5/12 so that a small triangle wouldnt...
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Sticky Vicky
2 commentsThis building has a completely stick framed roof. Lots of hip and valley combinations, as well as a double decker octagon roof. If you look closely in pics 1 and 3, you can see the steel flitch...
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