extra experience

finished cleaning the ground layed down hardys (1.8x1.2) used cleats to hold them to ground

removing the bath tub.taken jib away and broke down the box holding the shower

old fasion house with a different bracing style. studs an nogs were cut to fit the diagonal brace inside.Studs were nailed in at 600mm centers

the top of the original shower, mouldy from the badd shower an moisture cloggin up in the causing mould

brick laying for the outside anwood frame inside fill with pink batts to prevent the damp moisture coming through

sealed of taps after removing sink. turn off water pipe infront of teh house. double nogs for the sink to mount to.

close up shot of the pipes being sealed off.

shower before being removed

mouldy ceiling

sink before being removed

type of gib use (2.4x1.2) 20mm thickness

used hardys to lay on the floor so the tiles could go on

underneath the shower.used plywood (2.4x1.2) measured to fit in the gap , added some cut off of 150x50 so the gib could sit on top

flooring continued

half of the house is now floored carrying on from yesterday worked with the plywood

floor

started off with the normal tool box talk discussing safety issues, then had to install girt cleats which held the joist and bearers together as seen in the picture to the left. After that we layed owt some sisalation foil for the insulation under the floor boards we the stable gun to hold the foil down an carefully spaced out the foil so it sagged into the gaps allowing for any wet liquid will slide an go through the wholes in the foil, after the foil was laid out, we nailed the floorboards down(particle board) an used decking nails to keep it in place, we then continued the same process till the end of class :)

today an yesterday

yesterday -finished off the nogging using 190x45 msg8 timber,shot a stringline from one end to the other end so we could nog in a straight line.wee den used the clamps so it tighten the the grip between the joist so we could put a nog in with out having gaps in between. started helping the others by cutting nogs for them, most of my cuts were good..jus was given wrong measurements so i swaped around with micheal to take down the measurement, then marty told us to move the bearer cause it was off so we used the sabre saw to cut the nails from the joist an bearer,we then cut five more post to go dwn as piles to replace the wuns on the sole plate.the bearer moving was a success,
today -carried on from yesterday with the nogging,marty told me o fix up the straightness of the timber that some of the boys did,so i used my dougy to pull out the nails.after that i used some wedges to bringing upp the timer so it was leveled with the plate covering the subfloor,after that i planed down the wuns overlapping the edge.after that i helped owt richards side an fixed all there mistakes :)

back to work

worked with a couple of the boys on the house we organised the diffent type of treated timber like H3.2 an H1.2...these types of treated timber act to prevent the timber frm being rotted out.we placed the green timber H3.2 in the wet areas of the house example kitchen, bathroom an toilets..

hard work

flipin hardwork to get onto construction sites with out a sitesafe id, but alguds in the end found work building benches was good enough..assignment is slowly killing my holidays lol

new beginnings

 siope having a feel for the drop saw

 team richard mucking around

 bearers getting laminated with nails

after the previous day of cleaning up we got straight into today. the work load was shared for abit till team Marty suddenly changed our working pace from profiling to laminating and putting our bearers up. kept learning new stuff an occasionally shared some knowledge to the boys about skilled saws an drop saws. day was good cant wait to finsh the house.