Chapter I: Foundations 13

1. Laying out; 2. Grade line; 3. Excavation; 4. Foundations;
footings; 5. Foundation materials; 6. Forms for concrete walls;
7. Waterproofing; 8. Basement frames.

Chapter Ii. Main Frame 27

9. Methods of framing superstructure; 10. Sills and girders;
11. Bridging; 12. Trimmers and headers; 13. Walls and
partitions; joists and rough floors; 14. Openings in framework.

Chapter Iii. Roof Frame: Square Cornered Building 45

15. Roof framing; 16. Framing the common rafter; laying out
the plumb cut; 17. Finding the length of a common rafter;
18. Laying off a common rafter seat cut and end cut. 19. Ridge
piece; 20. Hip and valley rafter; 21. Framing hip and valley
rafters; 22. Side or cheek cut of hip or valley rafter;
23. Determining length of hip or valley rafter; 24. Laying off
and end cut of hip rafter; 25. Reduction of hip or valley length
seat cut because of ridge piece; 26. Backing a hip rafter;
27. Valley rafters; 28. Framing jack rafters; plumb cut; side
cut; 29. Lengths of jacks.

Chapter Iv. Roof Frame: Any Polygon 69

30. Tangents; miter cuts of plate; 31. Octagonal roofs; 32.
Common rafter for plate of any number of sides; 33. Hip and
valley rafters for octagon and other polygons; 34. Plumb cut
of octagonal and other polygonal hips and valleys; 35. Side
or cheek cuts of hip or valley rafters, any polygon; 36. Rafter
lengths of octagonal and other polygonal hips and valleys;
37. Reductions in lengths for king-post; 38. Seat cut and end
cut of octagonal and other polygonal hips and valleys; 39.
Backing octagonal and other hips; 40. Framing octagonal and
other polygonal jacks; 41. Side cut of octagonal and other
polygonal jacks; 42. Lengths of octagonal and other polygonal
jacks; 43. Framing by means of a protractor; 44. Translating
framing problems from protractor to framing square and vice
versa; 45. Framing an octagon bay; 46. Framing a roof of one
pitch to another of different pitch; 47. Framing roof of
uneven pitch; 48. Decks; chimney openings.