wednesday we carried on finishing the dorma window. paul decided that we would do a truncated hip on one side of it. so we started working out how we would go about it. we decided on a measurement of 900mm each side of the truncated hip and began working out measurements for the jack rafter. once this was achieved we cut it out and worked out where to cut the main hip. then we worked out and cut the hips, nailed it all together and voila!

thursday i was sick so i actually didnt do anything....

friday was a god day, luckily the boys did basically nothing while i was gone so i could finish off doing the hexagon end roof. we were doing mathmatical workings out and measuring in rafters and hips. once the frame was up we had to work out the underpurlin bevels and manifacture them. dan drew up a picture giving us the bevels and then we all measured and cut an underpurlin each. once this was done it was lunch. after lunch we carried on at our own pace doing our assignment... and now im on the computer doing the last blog i will ever have to do:(

my time here has been quite and enjoyable one. i liked the way we only had a small group allowing us to get more hands on experience and being easy for the lecturer to work through it with us. i feel i have learnt alot about things i had no idea about before and i feel more confident in my carpentry skills.
all in all its been a good 20 or something weeks here!
to all my readers, i apologise that it has to come to an end... im sure with time you will overcome this loss in your life and will move on to bigger and better blogs. Robs for instance.
take it easy, catch up with ya!

today we carried on doing the dorma window. we started measuring and working out where the stud walls would go and the length of them. then we cut them and put them in place, plating the top to create the wall plate for the little pitched roof ontop of the window. we measured what our window would be and worked it out in courses to the right height. after this we starting cutting out the roof and pitching it. it went together pretty smoothly, our only problem was the ridge being bowed..
we measured and cut the valleys then nailed them in. there were a few minor problems we came ascross but all worked out fine after some thinking.. i enjoyed the day even though im not feeling too good..

on thursday we sat two assessments. one on calcualations of hip, valley and oblique roofs and another on general questions about them. i feel i did pretty good in these assessments, there weren't many questions i wasnt confident about answering. this took up most the day and what ever time we had left at the end we used to start on our portfolio. the portfolio is evaluating a plan, also producing construction sequences as well as all safety plans and stuff like that.

friday we sat our practical test on an oblique end roof with a gable at the other end. we used our drawing bevels to get all the correct down and edge cuts for the hips, rafters and underpurlins. i did really well in it i think and mine ended up to be one of the neatest. so i was happy with my end results in both the written tests and the practical.

today, (monday) we began looking at dorma windows and started to construct a full size hip end so we can install a dorma window in it. im working with renna and so far so good. we have the hip end up and filled in so tomorrow we can go straight into working on the dorma window..
ill get photos and put them on here so all you people reading this can look at them:)

today we started building an oblique roof as a group taking up two bench tops. we got the plat out and made our perimeter of the building, then began working out the offsets and half spans. we all got together and worked out what were the correct answers then transfered them to the plate. after this we started working the rafters and hips. rob cut all the common rafters and the rest of us cut the hips and creepers. the roof went together really good and there were no stuff ups at all. we measured and cut underpurlins and fitted them in. all our working out was from previous work sheets we have been given and the brown paper drawings we did on tuesday.
good day

monday we were introduced to irregular roofs and oblique roofs. paul gave us some book work to look through and start filling in then we started on our brown paper drawings. we started drawing bevels and true lengths. it was complicated to look at and at the start i had no idea what the hell we were doing. but then wehen i started following the instructions i realised what was going on, it was a way to work out the true lengths of rafters, creepers and hips. we also worked out the rise and the bevel angles to use.

we continued finishing the drawing today (tues) up until lunch time, we then transfered out angles onto a bevel board. after this we went in and did some activities on working out hip lengths, jack lengths, nderpurlin lengths on a few plans using pythagoras and other methods.