Posts and beams can be steel, wood or engineered ... For example, you might hear a builder say “The roof frame members are stacked over there.” Floor joists are the framing members that ...

Never use roofing nails. (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter Q: Tim, I’ve never worked with metal joist hangers ... toe in the magic waters of rough framing, I can tell you that it ...

Eleven years ago, he wanted to learn how to frame a large shed ... sent some of the rusted joist hanger nails. A few of them had lost well over 60 percent of the steel! The bottom of several ...

I’ve got many questions, not the least of which is how to secure horizontal wood framing members to the ... I was thinking of using some metal joist hangers. What other tips can you share ...