Roof Framing

Syllabus and Guidelines

Semester: Fall 2013
Class: Carpentry 231
Class #: 40681
Units: 3
Instructor: Marie Kline
Campus Office: 464-3447
Email address: mariekline@earthlink.net
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:20- 12:50pm; Friday 12:00 12:30 pm
Office location: G160 Wednesdays/ G150 Fridays
Class Meeting Time: 7:30am- 12:20pm Wednesdays
Class Location: G160
Tools, Notebooks, Safety Gear, & Text
Students Provided Materials (text and binder) Safety Equipment and Tools are
required by the second class! If you do not have these items I will assume you
are not prepared for instruction.
Tools:
Notebook
Pencil
Hard Hat
Safety goggles
Dust mask/respirator
Tape measure
Speed square or
Combination
square
Architects scale
Tool belt
Framing hammer
Handsaw
4 in 1 screwdriver

Utility knife
Sliding T bevel
J-bar
I chisel
Stair gauges
Framing square
Calculator capable of
:
square root &
tangent
functions
razor saw for models
hot glue gun & glue

Text:
The required text is: Carpentry by Koel. I checked Amazon on Aug 20, 2012
and its running $76.95 used and $102.98 new. ISBN 0-8269-0800-4 for the 5th
edition. In many of the carpentry classes this is the only text required. The text is
required by the second class. Bring your text to the second class. I will be
checking to see that you have it.
Sources:
1. Most convenient:
Laney bookstore on campus
2. Great place:
Builders Booksource 1817 4th St,
Berkeley
845-6874

3. On-line
Recommended texts: Roof Framing by Marshall Gross; Craftsman Book
Company
Full Length Roof Framer by A F J Riechers; Buccaneer
Books, Inc.
Handouts:
Handouts will be handed out periodically throughout the semester. These should
be kept in your notebook. If you miss a handout it is your responsibility to get
one. I will try to keep a stock of current handouts in the flyer racks on the
backside of the new office. If you do not find it there, do not disrupt class to get
one, arrange to get it after class. Handouts can frequently be obtained via e-mail.
Send me a note and Ill send you a digital copy.
Homework and Reading Assignments:
Instructor will assign reading assignments and homework at her discretion. It is
the students responsibility to ask for and to turn in all make-up work.
Homework will be due at the next class session first thing at the start of
class (one week later) unless otherwise stated. Late homework will be give
credit. If you come in late, your homework is late. If you are absent you
can e-mail me your homework or make arrangements in advance. I can e-mail
you homework assignments that you have missed due to absence or if you failed
to get it.
Some assignments will be web based. As a Laney student you have access to
library and computer lab computers to do your course work. You will need to
have a valid student ID card to access school computers. Computer labs allow a
number of pages to be printed per student each day. No food or drink is allowed
in the computer lab.
Grading:
Final grade assessment criteria:
30% Quizzes, Midterm and Final Exam.
30% Homework assignments
40% Lab evaluations/ Participation; this is effected by your attendance. Days that you miss
or parts of days that you are gone will affect your grade.
GRADE
A
B
C
D
F
I
W

DEFINITION
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory
Passing but less than satisfactory, does not qualify as
a passing grade for the certificate!
Failing
Incomplete
Withdraw

Attendance Policy: Attendance affects your grade. See grading above. A

tardy is showing up more than 15 minutes late. Lectures start at the beginning of
class. If for some reason you will be repeatedly late, make sure you let me know.
Leaving early also affects your attendance.

Drops: Students are responsible for dropping from classes

Sept 1 Last day to drop regular session classes and receive a refund
Sept 1

Last day to drop regular session classes without receiving a W

Nov 16

Last day to receive a W

Cell Phones: No cell phone use during lectures. At other times short calls taken
outside are acceptable. No cell phones will be allowed during tests. No cell
phone calculators will be allowed. If you do not have a separate calculator for
tests you will be taking the test without a calculator.
Health and Safety: Accidents (Preventable Events) in the lab can cause pain,
disablement, lost training to the student injured or even death. Experience has
proven that most accidents can be prevented by proper safety practices.
Personal protective equipment will be required including but not limited to:
protective eye wear meeting ANSI Z87.140 standard (prescriptive eye wear that
does not meet this standard is not acceptable), hardhats, hearing protection, dust
masks and/or respirators as necessary, proper foot wear and clothing. Students
are required to adhere to all safety rules at all times. All students, visitors and
instructors(s) will wear hard hats and safety glasses during labs. No exceptions.
Students are not permitted to participate in lab until they are officially enrolled.
General sloppiness, poor organization, and careless storage of materials
sometimes cause job hazards on a construction site. Therefore students are
expected to follow rules for good housekeeping during lab. A safety orientation
will be given the 1st class. Laney College is a SMOKE FREE campus. No
smoking is allowed in classroom, office, lab, job site or Canopy Area. You must
go off campus/site to smoke. First aid station located in offices on campus and
at the site.
Academic honesty: There will be no use of cell phones or digital devises during
tests or quizzes.
Copying another students answers during tests and quizzes will result in no
credit for copied work.
Plagiarism occurs when a student misrepresents the work of another as his or
her own. Plagiarism may consist of using the ideas, sentences, paragraphs, or
Recycling: Recycling is now part of construction industry practices. All recyclable
materials will go in the recycling bins. All aluminum cans, plastic drink containers,
cardboard, metal, and clean paper will go in the blue recycling bins! All short pieces
of 2 x 4 fir go in the firewood bin beneath the chop box. Materials that cannot be
burned, such as: OSB, MDF, radiata pine, PT fir, plywood, etc do NOT go in the
firewood bin. Also, longer pieces than 14 do not go in the firewood bin.
whole text of another without appropriate acknowledgement, but it also includes
employing or allowing another person to write or substantially alter work that a
student submits as his or her own.
Disabilities and Accessibility: I wish to make this course as accessible as
possible to students with disabilities that may affect any aspect of course
assignments or participation. I encourage you to communicate with me by the

second week of the course or at your discretion about any accommodations that
will improve your experience in (or access to) this course. You can also contact
the Disabilities Services and Programs for Students at 464-3428 for assistance.
Clean-up: No janitors come and clean-up after us in the carpentry department.
Classes make the messes, so classes clean them up. Considering a huge part
of what goes on in the construction trades is cleaning up, youd best get use to it.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Calculate and construct gable
and hip roof using blueprints.
2. Create a building materials list
for a given roof including
mathematical rafter lengths.
3. Label gable and hip roof
framing drawings and discuss the
roof structure of a given roof
project.
4. Demonstrate basic construction
site safety and safe attitudes in all
class activities.

Syllabus: Roof Framing Fall 2013

(subject to change)
Aug 21 Introduction, Required tools and text, Safety Orientation, Roof styles slide Show
Homework:

Reading- Koel: Unit 46 Basic Roof Types and Roof

Theory
Study for safety test
Get tools, text and notebook

Aug 28 Inspection of tools and required text; Lecture: Parts of roof, Theory intro;
Safety tests.
Lab- Saw practice; build model frame
Homework:

Reading Koel: Unit 30 Details and Framing Plans,

read the section at the end on Framing Plans to the
end, 5 pgs.
Sept 4 Rafter parts; Layout first common rafter; Blue print reading

Homework:

Reading -Koel: Unit 47-Gable, Gambrel, and Shed

Roofs- beginning through Cutting Common

Rafters, 7 pgs.
Sept 11 Quiz #1; Terms; Decimals on calculator; Reading rafter tables on
square; second rafter
Homework: Homework handout #1.

Sept 18 Rafters- 3 more methods explained; continue cutting rafters

Homework:
Homework assignment #2
Reading- Koel: Unit 47 From Placing a Ridge Board and
Common Rafter to end; 10 pgs
Sept 25 Ridge board length; marking ridge board for rafter placement; cut ridge
Board; attach rafters; more rafters
Homework:
Homework handout #3 (16)
Reading- Koel: Unit 44- Ceiling Framing; all; 8 pgs
Oct 2 Quiz; Video- Roof framing; Speed square use; Hip roof terms
Homework:
Reading-Koel: Unit 48 Hip Roofs, all, 11 pages
Oct 9 Hip roof theory; Ridge length; Framing points; Layout
Homework:
Homework handout #5
Study for Mid-term
Oct 16 Mid-term; Hip rafter layout continued
Homework:
Hip plane puzzles
Oct 23 Single cheek cut rafters
Homework:
Homework handout #4
Oct 30 Material list for hip roof; Intro to final project-model
Homework:
Hip plan homework
Work on Model
Nov 6 Dropping a Hip; Valley Rafters
Homework:
Valley rafter handout
Reading- Koel: Unit 49- Intersecting roofs; all; 17 pgs
Work on Model
Nov 13 Jack Rafters
Homework:
Figuring jacks homework
Work on Model
Nov 20 Trusses

Homework:
Reading- Koel: Unit 50- Roof Trusses, all; 11 pages
Work on Model
Nov 27 Green roof framing
Homework:
Handout
Work on model
Dec 4 Demo and clean-up; Review for Final;
Homework:
Study for Final, finish model
Dec 11

Final Exam; Roof models due!