Friday, May 30, 2008

i just wrote a post but the stupid thing didn't work. pull your finger out blogger im sick of your shit

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

for the last couple of days we have looked at roofing, ceilings and eaves. we constructed the cieling on our timber framed house and then proceeded to work out the roof. i found this quite easy because i have done this before. we all had a go at cutting diffrerent types of rafters. after strapping the hangers on the cieling, me renna and daniel got up to pitch the roof we cut out. we started with a pair of commons and each end then nailed on the jack. dan cut a hip so i cut the creepers to go on it. it was a fun excercise. however, we came across a problem when we nailed the commons onto the ridge. they weren't all the same length making the ridge out of the level (on the piss bigtime!) we will have to sort that out later. it was rainging today so we did a brown paper drawing on 3 different eave types.
boxed eaves
lined on the rake eaves
lined on the top eaves

this was quite enjoyable and i flew through it without any problems. we then started doing bookwork on the introduction to roofing.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

ok so we are back tafe for another two weeks.. its wednesday and for the last few days we have been looking at hanging doors, fitting skirting, fitting door locks and made door jambs. we all made the door jambs together and fitted them in our little framed house. we had a door opening each and worked alone to get the jambs to the correct size then levelled. i finished first so was the first to start hanging my door. it proved to be a little tricky because it was my first ever attempt. the door came up alright when i hung it, the only problem was when i marked my hinges onto the jamb the door fell down a bit leaving a bigger gap at the top of the door.. i will know for next time:)
after i finished hanging my door i fitted a lock onto a fake door (piece of wood) and that all fitted fine. i then went on to do the skirting, i enjoyed doing the skirting and it came up well i think. i am now starting to hang the double doors.... so i'll let ya know how it all goes. catchya