DEAR TIM: I’m now retired and starting to attack a huge list of projects. One of them is building a simple shed, and I have no clue how to cut and create a simple roof rafter. I know it can’t be that ...

WEBVTT WMUR'S SUZANNE ROANTREE JOINS US TO EXPLAIN WHAT WENT WRONG HERE. LEILA CONVENIENT, HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN WERE ALL INSIDE THEIR CONCORD HOME ON SATURDAY WHEN THEY REALIZED THEIR ROOF HAD ...

WHITE RIVER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZZM) -- Wind is thought to be the cause of a partial building collapse at a construction site in Muskegon County. Two workers were hurt when the rafters they were working ...

I’ve got one last project before winter sets in. I want to build a small shed, but I’m not sure how to frame the standard gable roof. I can handle placing the framing square to make the plumb and heel ...

DEAR TIM: I’m now retired and starting to attack a huge list of projects. One of them is building a simple shed, and I have no clue how to cut and create a simple roof rafter. I know it can’t be that ...

Firefighters transfer an injured construction worker to a stretcher for an ambulance ride to a trauma-center hospital. Four men were injured by falling rafters at a Happy Valley construction site.

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...