we are finaly indoors just in time for winter

we finished the weatherboards about 2 weeks ago and this week have done insulation and are geting into the gib work

but first the weatherboards. we start to create a datum point for the story rod which helps mark the places where the weatherboards will be placed first we get any small piece of weather board that can reach the length of the flashing and place it on top and measure 5mm above this is done by placing an engendering rule under the weatherboard at each end of flashing we then mark on the top of the weatherboard on each cavity battern we then run a string line across the marks and this becomes the datum point

Next we mark out a story rod which will show every point where the top of the weatherboards will go once the rod is marked we line it up with the datum point we mark down the cavity batterns and square the mark off. This is continued around the house

We now begin on placing the weatherboards on the house starting from the bottom we cut a bevel cut (open cut 1^st) on one end (if starting from a corner the other side is cut) an then line the top up to the line on the cavity batterns and mark off other end to be cut accordingly once cut we line it up to line again, (if corner is cut a mock weatherboard is placed so that corner is cut correctly and square) paint the cut ends and tack it on the top we use a level or string line to check the straightness of the board and to let it be adjusted accordingly once this is done a hole is drilled within 10mm of the weatherboards 23mm lap this is easily done with the use of the protector (showed below) that is lined up with the cavity battern and the bottom of the weatherboard then a rose head nail is nailed into the hole and tacks are removed this step is repeated up the house.

some weatherboards have to be cut to fit around a window opening this is done with the jigsaw we measure the weatherboard starting from the joint to both ends of the opening adding and minus 10mm on each end of opening once cut with jigsaw it is fitted like the other weatherboards except no nails are to be under the opening.

Other weatherboards are cut for flashing all that is done is the weatherboard is marked to fit around flashing and then cut with jigsaw.

all photos of this are showen in the previous post