Shows how to select, stack, and use green lumber to build houses and barns, describes special techniques for working with green wood, and explains the characteristics of lumber. GREEN LUMBER IS IN GOOD SUPPLY and saves thousands of miles trucking. GREEN LUMBER IS VERY ATTRACTIVE. Its striking surface patterns and rough textures have great appeal! Author-builder Leigh Seddon has built with green lumber. He understands it, knows its values, knows too that if used improperly, it may crack or warp or shrink. And heâ??s written this book to explain how to save money but avoid pitfalls with green lumber. How to select and buy green lumber from local sawmills. How to stack green lumber, and dry it quickly so that it can be just like the more expensive kiln-dried lumber. Construction techniques for green lumber. Detailed instructions on building a 20-foot X 24-foot utility barn for less than $5,000. Many how-to illustrations. Nine fascinating interviews with people who have built with green lumber. Find out how they got so much for their money, and where they made their mistakes. LEIGH SEDDON is a veteran builder who recognized, and now has written about, the virtues of green lumber. Before starting his own construction firm. Community Builders, in Montpelier, Vermont, he was, for two years, the assistant director of the consumer-oriented Vermont Public Interest Research Group. 161 pages. Building, Wooden, Barns--Design and construction, Lumber. Seller Inventory # 074340

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Title: Low Cost Green Lumber Construction

Publisher: Garden Way Pub Co

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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