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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.


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Tips and Tricks of the Trade

Save Steps When Snapping Chalk L
Low-Cost Anchors For Concrete Forms

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

Website Design by Gene Laratonda
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Regional Council   ·  650 Ridge Road   ·  Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9511

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