24/7/12

So today,I cut the final piece of facia.I had to put blocking off the soffiet bearer so I had fixing for the join for the facia boards.Primed up each end.Then sat it in place and used a hand drill to predrill the holes for the jolts.Now the final soffiets can be set up and finished.I then moved on to the second to last window of the house.Used flat heads to sercure the flashing down to the sill of the window.We had to roll over the edge of the flashing as the space we had was a tight fit.8mm packers were used at the left hand side of the opening with 5mm at the other end.I used a straight edge spirit level to get the sills all level then put the final packers in the last slot,After this it was all screwed off.My rule was used against the edge off the sill and the face of the wall,this was done as the gib is 10mm thick.

Nailing off a beam for our scaffold.

The Standards and putlogs and blocking.

After lunch me and the other half of the class went on to making our own timber scaffold set up.Ours is 6 metres in length.The set up contains components off;Putlogs,Standards,Kick rail,mid rail,top rail and 4 rows of scaffold boards.These have to be set up on a building site if the building exceeds 3 metres in height.This is to ensure that we as the builders are safe for when it comes screwing off the iron sheets for the roof.The kick rail is there to prevent tools,paint,power tools,basically anything that is sitting up there.

In our morning session upstairs Matt taught us about what materials that can be used with each other,Metals and plastics for roofing.And other things around the house,I never knew how badly corrosion can be untill I looked at the chart we were given stating what can be matched together and what can't be.Plastic can be attached to a roof of corrigated gav iron as it can rust it.The minerals in each metal can have a positive or a negative effect on each other.It is important to get the right materials for the right job.