A Roof Cutter's Secrets: To Framing a Custom Home
Step-By-Step Techniques for Cutting Bay Roofs, Gambrels, Shed, Gable and Eyebrow Dormers

By Bill Holladay

Author Will Holladay shares his insider tips gleaned over decades of cutting roofs. You’ll find secrets such as gang-cutting techniques for fast production of hips and valleys, and efficient techniques for post-and-beam roofs and exposed-beam ceilings. You’ll be shown jobsite solutions for rake walls, and curved and two-story walls.

Includes step-by-step techniques for cutting bay roofs, gambrels, shed, gable and eyebrow dormers. You’ll see how to cut uneven pitch gables. You’ll find how to do custom work like coffered ceilings, arches and barrel vaults; even round towers, hexagons, octagons, and other polygons.

If you’ve been looking for a book that covers all roof framing with some new tricks you may not have tried before, save time and money with this roof framing exposé.

About The Author

Like many in the trades, Will Holladay began his framing career as a job-site laborer with a shovel in his hands. Blessed with a knack for driving nails (he still uses his old 28-oz. hammer) coupled with a love of roofs and the desire to be a roof cutter, he worked his way through the ranks. Will eventually realized his dream when he learned production roof cutting/stacking in the Southern California housing tracts in the mid 1970s. When trusses gained prominence in the late 1970s, he moved north into the custom home market along the central California coast. There he specialized in framing large custom homes for various general contractors. Will eventually moved on to work up and down the West Coast and in New England. The custom home market greatly refined his knowledge as he was exposed to a variety of difficult roof situations. The notes he kept throughout the years have become the basis for this book.

For more than a decade, Will has shared his expertise as an occasional contributor to The Journal of Light Construction and other leading trade magazines. He has also taught roof cutting courses at JLC Live

342 Pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"

ISBN: 1928580327

Paperback, 339 pages