General Carpentry

CraftPro General Carpentry courses are designed to equip learners with the foundational skills needed for a successful career in carpentry. Emphasizing safe work, our courses cover a wide range of essential topics including building materials, plans and documents, layout, wood and steel framing systems, roofing, stair construction and thermal and moisture protection.

Key Features

Safety Practices: Learn essential safety protocols to ensure a healthy working environment.
Foundational Skills: Gain hands-on experience in core carpentry techniques.
Comprehensive Coverage: Master building materials, layout, framing systems, and more.
Advanced Techniques: Explore roof framing, stair construction and moisture protection for well-rounded expertise.
Accountable Learning: Testing is built in to reinforce learning and validate comprehension.

Available Courses

General Carpentry

Safety for Carpenters

Carpenters may face a variety of hazards. Site-specific safety plans, personal protective equipment, and conducting job hazard analyses can help mitigate the risk and dangers. This course reviews OSHA standards, safety hazards, and how to reduce hazards with carpentry materials.

Building Materials and Fasteners

Carpenters use a wide variety of materials to work in practically every phase of construction. Whether their focus is residential, commercial, industrial, or infrastructure, carpenters work with a variety of materials including wood, concrete, steel, and composites. Along with using a variety of materials, carpenters generally are classified as either a rough or finish carpenter. This course reviews the types of materials used by carpenters, associated hazards and precautions, and related construction fasteners and adhesives.

Construction Plans and Documents

Construction drawings and specifications include important design and layout information for all types of buildings. These documents provide a wide range of information, including where to place the structure on a site and what types of materials to use. This course ensures carpenters are able to accurately read and interpret construction drawings, so the entire project is constructed correctly.

Site Layout Tools and Calculations

Site and building layout are important parts of the overall construction process. In this course, carpenters learn how to perform basic building layout tasks that transfer construction drawing information to the construction site. Carpenters may be asked to lay out the location of buildings and other features on the site, check the dimensions of the structures as they are being built, document completed work, and verify that site layout meets plan specifications.

Floor Systems

Floor systems are an important part of residential and commercial buildings. They provide a base for the structure, efficiently transferring the weight of people, equipment, and furnishings from the subfloor to the floor framing, to the foundation wall, and then to the footing and earth. This course focuses primarily on the construction of raised floor systems, their components, and how they are built.

Wall Systems

The walls of most single-family dwellings are framed with 2 × 4 or 2 × 6 lumber. Exterior sheathing and siding, along with interior finishes such as gypsum board, are then attached to the framing. Two steps are critical in the framing process: accurate measuring and layout, and accurate leveling and plumbing of the walls. The use of steel studs for wall framing is becoming common in commercial and residential construction. This course reviews wall system components, layout, and assembly techniques.

Roof Framing

Ceilings and roofs must be framed prior to installation of ceiling finish materials and exterior sheathing. In many cases, trusses are now installed in lieu of ceiling joists and roof rafters being installed individually. There are occasions, however, when carpenters need to frame all or part of a roof. This course covers how to perform the length and angle calculations needed to correctly size and cut each type of rafter.

Basic Stair Systems

While prefabricated stairways are available in a variety of designs, job-built stairways or forms for concrete stairs may be required. In these instances, carpenters should understand how to lay out and cut stair stringers that meet the requirements of a stairway’s design. This course covers the required precise measuring and cutting, and the ability to perform the necessary math calculations. It also requires carpenters to understand codes related to stair design and the potential consequences of deviating from those codes.

Steel Framing Systems

In commercial and multifamily residential construction, it is common to use steel framing materials in place of wood studs to frame walls and partitions. Steel framing, however, requires a carpenter to master tools and joining techniques different from those required in wood framing construction. This course covers the materials and methods needed to install nonstructural walls or load-bearing steel assemblies.

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