Wednesday, October 20, 2010

the beginings of a roof

this week we continued with straightening the house with the stringlines and braces as showen below
bracing on top plate


bracing on bearer
 i also had to go to all the butt joints of the exteiour walls this is done by first clamping them together to get rid of any space between them an then they are nailed together then at some points at the bottom plate of the walls are marked where wind ties or straps are being placed. Next nogs are placed at those spots not to add structural strength but to purely hold the wind ties or straps.







while this was being done the others were installing the double top plates and ceiling battons for the back bedrooms the double top plates were cut at 320mm (not entirely sure on that) and nailed on the top plate with 25mm overhang if on inteirer walls also spacings were made for ceiling battons on inteirer walls exteirer on the other hand had no spaces and had to be butt joined all this is showen below

ceiling batton on ineirer wall
ceiling batton on exteirer wall

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