Guides
How to measure the numbers the calculators ask for, before you buy lumber or cut a stringer.
- Doyle, Scribner, and International Three log rules, one log. The buyer and the seller have to name which rule the price uses.
- Hardwood thickness in quarters A quarter name is the rough thickness. Surfaced stock is thinner, and the tally still bills the rough size.
- How to lay out a stair stringer Turn a finished rise and a tread depth into equal steps, a throat, and the board to buy.
- How to measure total rise Record the whole flight from the finished floor you leave to the finished floor you reach.