WEDNESDAY

today was a full day of practical work where we were going to put what were learnt about cladding to the test.
we made rods that we put marks on showing the cover of each board for weatherboard and cedar. to get these cover measurements we simply took the overall height from the bearer to the top plate (2520) and divided it by the width of the board minus the cover we want (152-25) then we got our answer which was 19.843657. so we rounded up to make it 20. (2520 divided by 20= 126). so that is our measurement.
after we tranfered these measurements went went out to the wall frames and started marking out where the boards were going to go and put on stops at the end of the walls and the top of the beared as a level guide.
i teamed up with dan to start cladding the nib wall. we were using cedar boards and it was all going together nicely until we ran out of boards half way up.. so we discussed with eachother what to do and came up with the idea of nailing a blocking at the top of the boards with a rebate in it so it fits over the top about 25 mm. we then measured and cut out a sheet of hardi-flex to fit into the top half of the nib wall. it went in beautifuly!!! we nailed it off, then sat back and admired for a little while before starting the next wall. we applied installation on the wall with spot fixers and put the stop in at the ends and bottom of wall.









tuesday

today we started out researching all different types of cladding, focusing on timber cladding, sheet cladding and fibre -cement cladding. we looked on the internet as a resource and printed off material safety data sheets, installing manuals and typed up and general report on what the cladding is and made of.
we did this until lunch time when we put all this information in our portfolios and went over to the workshop where we sat in the classroom and worked through a wall framing booklet. we did activities on take off sheets for cladding. it was fairly easy although when it came to do the sheet cladding take off sheet it required alot more thinking.