“Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction”, by CMHC

CMHC. Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction. 2005.

It’s difficult to know how to cite government publications!  Another odd thing is that Amazon says the best price for this book is $110.  I guess the library knows what it’s doing, letting this go out for circulation.

Anyway, I got it off the shelf at my local branch to solve a particular framing problem for a cross-gable roof I was designing.  It helped admirably, and although I feel a little guilty that I didn’t read the whole book, I was grateful that finding the information I needed was so easy.

My dad came to visit in the three weeks this was sitting on my desk, and he says he just bought the same book!