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.

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.

17/712

We went upstairs yesterday,And drew a few pictures of eaves and verges,We had to label all the members of each roof.An eave are soffits,just like on our ucol build.Verges and the overhang on a gable ended house where the soffit plates are not level with the soffit plate.We started to install the windows,The top of the window sill was measured from one end to the other then measure the window opening,What ever the gap is on one side of the window is divide it by 2 and pack one side of the window opening.We had a large selection of different sized packers to use.

We had to get the weatherboards nailed off right under the window openings so we could fix the window flashings down to the window sills.We used flat head 1 inch nails to nail it down.We then had 2 people grab the window and lift it into opening.For the flashings for the doors and lounge openings,We had to chizle the lip on it so we could slide the doors into place.When we had them in,I used my rule and sat it up against the sill to get it flush,10mm for the gib.Then packed them and drilled the holes.I used a rattle gun/drill for screwing the sills off to.Then a level was used to see how plumb the frames were for the openings.Once all the windows are put on the house we then can carry on with the remainder of the weatherboards,there is a 10mm gap from the window frame and the boards,This is so that air can travel,stopping capillary action in the openings.We are now able to run the boards all the way up to the soffiets.