We
are Residential Carpenters Local Union #1233 serving Pittsburgh and
southwestern Pennsylvania.
New homes must be built for growing populations,
and old homes must be renovated or replaced with
new, more efficient ones.
It takes a lot of
skilled carpenters to create or renovate these
structures expertly and efficiently. Residential
carpentry is a challenging career because of the
new building products, new styles, new tools,
new technology and hard work which goes into today’s housing
industry.
Housing contractors are always seeking
good residential carpenters.
Residential carpenters are also
considered “master
builders,” because they are the primary craft
workers on homes, apartments, and condos. They
assemble and erect the framework of residences;
they install the floors, build the walls,
construct the roofs, and do much of the finish work, often staying on
a particular job until it’s finished. The
residential carpenter is an all-around carpenter
who has experience in just about every aspect of
residential construction.
If you have any questions or
comments for Local 1233's Website Committee please use the form
on the Website Committee
page or bring it to their
attention at the next union meeting.
When it’s time to
anchor wood formwork (such as the stick-framed panel shown here)
to concrete slabs, my colleagues and I seldom use expansion or
other anchors. The anchors can be expensive, are normally driven
into relatively large holes in concrete that should be bored
with heavy-duty rotary hammers, and can create other
complications.
Instead, we use
hammer drills to bore 3/16-inch diameter by 4-inch deep holes
through the kickers and the bottom plates of the forms into the
underlying concrete, drop a 5-inch length of rebar tie wire into
each hole, and hammer in a 16d common nail. The wire squeezes
the nails to prevent them from backing out of the slightly
oversized holes when the concrete is placed, but allows them to
be pulled later to strip the forms.
—Jamie Pelley
Carpenters Local 27 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
New homes must be built for growing populations,
and old homes must be renovated or replaced with
new, more efficient ones.
It takes a lot of
skilled carpenters to create or renovate these
structures expertly and efficiently. Residential
carpentry is a challenging career because of the
new building products, new styles, new tools,
new technology and hard work which goes into today’s housing
industry.
Housing contractors are always seeking
good residential carpenters.
