7/8/12

So yesterday,we started off in class with a small session of catch for the rest of the class.Steve came in and took the session for the morning.Me and Brad were already up to date with our assessments,Moodle,Blogging and quizzes.So we were instructed to go ahead and move on to the house.My first task was installing facing boards for the outside windows on the weatherboards.I had to cut go ahead and cut some weatherboards into small packers,Phil made a scriber for the blocks to sit nicely to,then a strip of timber is nailed to them with finishing nails.Then the facing boards are nailed on.The bottoms of the facing boards are cut on a small angle to sit flush with the outside sill under the window.Our boards were to overlap the outside of the window by 10mm.This is to prevent weathering from getting in from behind.We were going to move on with the head flashings for the windows but it turned out that the flashings we were sent were the incorrect lengths.

After Smoko we moved back on with the roof.Me Mark,Brad and Takey went out and carried on.We had all our sheets at 60mm from the face of the facia board,The overlap is needed for the run off into the guttering.The longer the better as water cannot run back up under the roof causing the materials to rott and or weaken over time.The tool used was called a "nibler" This was used to cut the sheets of iron for the roof.We used a chalk line to ping a line to have something to follow to give us a nice finished cut.We then fixed the sheets down with techscrews,These are not to be over tightned as these can put pressure on the sheets and burst the rubber seal under the screw.The offcuts we have can then be used on the opposite end of the house as the overlapping patterns will be the same but different to the ones you have just cut them from.We no longer staple the building paper down as we just lay it under the sheets of iron.The iron is more then enough to hold the paper down.And once its screwed down they ain't going anywhere.