Wood Framing and Building Hardware Tips - If you're framing a house today, there's a good chance that it has more hardware in the home today than five years ago. It's starting to get a little overkill and I don't really know how much more hardware one of these wood framed houses can actually take.

What Causes Cracks In Your Roof Framing? - There are a few different things that could cause cracks in your roof framing rafters and other structural components that are used while building your roof. Some of these cracks are actually in the lumber and no one ever did anything about them, while building the roof.

Roof Framing Secrets - Plan, Measure Then Build - When I first started working in construction, I was 16 years old and my first job was building stairs with my father. Within a few years I got to help my dad build some extremely difficult custom home roofs. These roofs required about five days for two men to cut and assemble.

5 Simple Rules for Beginner House Framing - If you haven't ever built a house before and you don't have any experience building a house, I would like to share five simple rules for beginner house framing with you. These five simple rules aren't going to solve all of your problems, but they're going to provide you with a step in the right direction.

Floor Joisting Framing Secrets - I was about 18 years old, when my dad needed to build a floor that was going to be located inside of an industrial tilt up building. The floor joisting framing secrets that I'm about to share with you, were learned on this particular job.