this week at tafe we have been looking at hip and valley roofs. we got straiight into making a hip and valley roof using wall frames as the walls. i had to make up a couple of wall frames to create an L shape in order to produce a valley. after it was all set up we plated it and started measuring half spans and marking out the roof. we worked at 600 centres. the other boys began cutting out the main roof and i cut out all the minor roof.
i jumped up with renno and mike to put up the main roof. it went together quite well and was a big improvement from the last time we cut roof out. the roof went up and we framed out the gable at the end of the house. then we worked out the scotch valley we were going to put in and cut the rafters for that. it all went together pretty good.
ater this we went into the classroom and begun working throught the hip and valley work book. we carried on and did this wednesday too, along with some other work sheets on ordering and working out how to order timber for a plan. on thursday we finished the work book and went to the library to type up our construction sequences.

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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.

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

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

over the last few days we have carried on with the concrete slab activities. we completed the set out of the slab and dug the trenches for our footings. we the made up the shutters using outriggers, braces, pegs and ply wood for the shutters. it was a little difficult setiing them up mainly because our pegs were not strong enough. we used old stakes when we should have made new ones up out of 90x35... after it was all in place and paul gave it the ok, we denailed and dissassembled it recycling the timber we used. we did a series of paper work and sections on concreting. we researched concrete and form ply, filled out costing sheets and order forms for the shutters and concrete. we also sat assessments on cladding, cladding calculations and wall frames.

TUESDAY

when i arrived today i was informed that our next project is preparing a concrete slab. so we talked a little bit about it in the withdrawal room then headed out to the site.
when we arrived there i noticed the fellas had got a boundary line and a couple of hurdles in on the previous day. we continiued on working out the boundary lines of an australind plan. after we got the hurdles in and levelled them off the datum point which was 1340. we then checked for aquare using the 3,4,5 technique and measuring our parrellels and diagonals.. after it was squared (which was a bit of a muck around) we started marking where internal walls were going to be and put hurles in there and transfering string lines to show the walls. paul then talked to us about the thickness of the bricks and told us to think about it so we can transfer the boundary marks into the outside of the internal wall. it was 160mm from our boundary.
we then went into the withdrawal room again and discussed all about making up the shutters for the concrete. we worked out what materials we needed and there sizes so we cut all them out and lugged them over to the site so that first thing tomorrow morning we are straight into it flat out nailing them together... stay tuned


MONDAY

wasn't here due to i didn't feel well...