Scaffolding

Today all on site setting up the scaffolds,we separated and half of the boys started setting out the length of the house while me,pereri,afe,zeethan,mana and

charles finished off what we stared yesterday. First we made sure all the poles had soul plates underneath and made sure that the poles were straight then after that we put the brace for the bottom on then after that  we put the put-logs on to straighten the whole scaffold.

Ceiling Batterns

Today we put up our Ceiling Batterns up The other Boys pu up the Batterns While Marty Taught me,pereri and erin hoe to set a scafold.

Setting out our own Wall Frame.

25/05/2011

Today we learnt how to set out a wall frame on site. I learned that its is better to mark both top and bottom plate together when laminated to have correct measurements when nailing in the studs.

Wall frames up

24/05/2011

Today we finished off richards flooring while Marty marked out where our wall frames goes, Once we finished marking we set up the walls according to the plan, and then used a straight edge to square the corners. Then finaly when the wall frames wer up all the boys nailed the frames together and then left me and erin  with the straight edge to square all the corners of the  frames.

yay finished the flooring

today was happy to finish off the flooring thanks to marty for showing us our values to pump the boys to work harder.Once we finnished the flooring we help richard with their floorong.

Starting on noggs

Today was finishing the floor joist and getting on to noogings, measuring the noggs and then cutting it on the drop saw.

continue of laying floor joist

04/05/2011

Today was just continueing with the Floor joist.

Joist paln

Today we wer fixing our joist onto our bearers but first we layed it down according to the plan seperating our wet areas to our dry areas to make evrything easier.

Straightning Bearers

02/05/2011

Today we straighten the bearers using a string line that was tied on a nail on 1 side of the building and then it  was run down the length of the building to the other end and tied on a nail there then the bearers we straighten.