Carpenters

Carpenters typically perform the following tasks: • Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment. • Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge. • Assemble and fasten materials to make frameworks or props, using hand tools and wood screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue. • Study specifications in blueprints, sketches, or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required. • Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saws. • Verify trueness of structure, using plumb bob and level. • Inspect ceiling or floor tile, wall coverings, siding, glass, or woodwork to detect broken or damaged structures. • Erect scaffolding or ladders for assembling structures above ground level. • Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools. • Maintain records, document actions, and present written progress reports. • Remove damaged or defective parts or sections of structures and repair or replace, using hand tools. • Maintain job records and schedule work crew. • Anchor and brace forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchor rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers. • Bore boltholes in timber, masonry or concrete walls, using power drill. • Install rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repair. • Dig or direct digging of post holes and set poles to support structures. • Cover subfloors with building paper to keep out moisture and lay hardwood, parquet, or wood-strip-block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base. • Construct forms or chutes for pouring concrete. • Arrange for subcontractors to deal with special areas, such as heating or electrical wiring work. • Build or repair cabinets, doors, frameworks, floors, or other wooden fixtures used in buildings, using woodworking machines, carpenter's hand tools, or power tools.