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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Last we checked in on the progress of Santiago Calatrava's long-overdue, vastly overbudget World Trade Center Transportation Hub, workers were just beginning to install the 114 rafters that would turn ...
Four men putting a roof on a chicken house at a commercial farm were injured Tuesday when wind caught exposed rafters and toppled them like dominoes, according to the plant manager. The construction ...