Understand the core principles that lead to a stronger, more accurate frame

•  Identify materials and techniques that make life as a carpenter easier
• Gain a clearer, more systematic approach to layout
• Learn practical methods for framing floors, walls, and roofs efficiently
• Build confidence with framing math—and learn workarounds for complex roof geometry
• Leave with tools and insights you can apply immediately on the job

Framing Basics – Smooth Layout

• Know how to lay out and square a framed building from the top of a new foundation 
• Understand a typical floor joist layout 
• Understand some wall framing basics
• Recognize how the layout relates to the layers above, including the roof structure 

Wall Framing Strategies

• Discuss layout and its importance from floor to roof
• Explain the idea of the boss corner
• Cut sheets for window and door sizes and precutting the parts
• Snapping floor plan on deck and cutting off of the prints for plating

Basic Roof Geometry

• Understanding basic roof Triangles
• Learning to visualize Triangles
• Drawing a roof kernel equals pitch
• Intro to unequal pitch

Eyebrow Dormers

• Move from common rafters to valley development
• Explain how to look at which view and what it represents in each drawing
• Explain valley bevel development and from where it is derived from

Eyebrow Dormer Framing Part 1 & 2 

• Explain what an eyebrow is and begin to show how we insert a curved shape into a slope plane
• Show how we develop the curved shape of an eyebrow
• Explain Ordinates and how they work
• Start development of front profile and side profiles

Calculating and Cutting Roofs

• In calculating and cutting roofs, we will learn how to develop drawing and understand unequal roof pitches 
• Hip and valley shifting the easy way and developed backing drawing
• Square tail hips and valley cuts.