Meet the Middle Ages
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There was a great need for carpenters in the medieval towns. New houses were built and old houses were repaired. The carpenters built wooden houses as well as houses of stone. They did everything on the wooden houses, from hewing the logs to building the walls and laying the roofs. On the stone houses, they built the roof trusses, the joists (the division between two storeys) and floors. They also made the interior fittings: cupboards, beds and benches.
Some carpenters were skilled boat-builders, others made carriages and carts.