05/07/2011

today we were down the site the whole day, we continued with our painting of the weather boards, did quiet alot then me marty mike and pereri were doing the building wrap, covering the whole house up and stapling it to the wall frames, we had to make it tight so it wouldnt flap, then we got builders band, it was a strap that will go between the nogs of the house, so we would do it in 3 rows we stapled it and made sure it was tight, if it got up to where the windows or doors were, we will cut it of and start of it. we did that the whole day.

04/07/2011 dismantle scaffold

today we were in class going over buit 4544, then we were down the site, we had to make sure that our wall were all straight and if ther were, we will nail our top plates using 100mm. then we had to dismantle our edge protection because our roof was already up, taking apart our scaffolds, after lunch we had to paint our weather boards, did that the whole day.

27/06/2011

today we were in class, we got split it to teams becasue we were going to make our own gable roof, my team was with kim, pereri and ben, we had to make our own gable roof, we were down at the work shop making our roof,

22/06/2011 continuation of ceiling battens

today we carried on from yesterday, getting our ceiling battens done, we got our stingline, took it across the living room wall, and nailid it to the top plate, but it ws nailed to where the batten will go, if it was straight we will nail it using 70mm nails, and the spacing for the next ceiling batten will be 400mm,

21/06/2011 nailing of the ceiling battens

today, marty told us to straighten up the ceiling battens and nail them all in, every single one using 70mm nails, we did that the whole day and we used string line to guide us on putting our ceiling battens straight, then nail them in.

20/06/2011

today we finished of doing our Znails, nailing it on the purlins to the trusses, me jonothan, pereri, mike was doing that the whole day, nailing on the Znails, but then we had to add another row 2rows of purlins .

14/06/2011 purlins

today we were on the roof marking out where the purlins will go and grabbing our purlins and nailing them to the trusses using 100mm nails. me pereri, mike mack and lincon did the prulings on one side of the house while damian and kristian did the other, first we did the bottom first then did the top, from the top we measured 150mm from the apex to determine where our first purlin will go, we managed to do some of our purlins but will do the rest 2mrrw