all that painting leads up to this






the last two weeks and the next few weeks onwards are all about the weatherboards from making the story rod for marking cavity battons to nailing on the weatherboards but we also did a few things before that which will be showen below. these photos show the instalation ot the sofit that runs under the rafters that overhang the house alowing no entry of noisture or vermen they are inserted into the sofit mold and conected together with the sofit connector then they are nailed at the edge with clouts and drilled onto the rafter alowing the christmas tree to fasten the sofit to the rafter.



sofit inside sofit mold that is part of fasia board



sofit connector





sofit cutter in use



sofit running along the front of house





example of a rake sofit




sofit in sofit mold



christmas tree



after they are installed we then prepare for inspection where we double check all cavity batterns are straight and to length we also install the flashings for windows all showen below.

first the flashing are cut to size to fit over the window with a few mm to over hang each side (my window is 50mm each side) we then fit alluban to it and fermly press the flashing on the wall so that its flat against the wall and sits neatly on the window we then staple the vermin strip over the flashing as showen in the photo lastly we use silicon to stick stoppers on the ends of the flashing which i forgot to take a photo of.

vermin strip over flashing

flashing installed with alluban

pencil mark showing ends of window

battern chizeld out for stoppers

corner cavity batterns for corner flashings

side view of window flashing

what comes after that is the instalation of the wetherboards where a lot can go wrong there are many steps as seen in the photos below.
i still need to know more so i will explain the process next week

using wetherboard to find datim line

string line showing datem

use of story rod

squaring off lines for wetherboard placement

before

after

tacked in weatherboard

mock weatherboard used for instalation of weatherboard around corner

weatherboards runing under window opening

jigsaw cutting weatherboard

cut weatherboard for placement under window opening

protector used so no damage comes to whearerboard when nailing and drilling

protector in use





2011's 1st blog

back into unitec from the holidays in the philipines and we just had theroy i have forgoten to post up the last week of last year involving the sofit and wraping the house for the holidays but i will do that soon as well as todays work

3 weeks in 1 (part 2)

i have also taken many photos as showen below next week will have steps on what we have done

straightening a stud with fish plates and wedge

roof gutter

finished building wrap for water and weather protection

how to cut building wrap for an opening

corner moldings used on the bottom corners of an opening

aluband used across the the whole bottom of an opening and up 200mm

aluband used at the top corners of an opening going out 200mm with butterfly 100mm x 50mm

ceiling battons on each side of opening from bottom of lintel to 100mm below floor

vernem strip along the house

vernem strip cut to allow for corners

packers and wedges used to help fit in windows

window temp fitted into opening

blocks set under window at 5 degrees and 50mm spacing

3 weeks in 1

due to assignments and other matters i have not been able to post my blog the last 2 weeks but i have all the videos below enjoy

the sun is coming out 2

as i said before all these steps in constructing the roof are very important for example the perlins not only keep the trusses up but also keep them straight we do this by pushing against the truss before nailing the perlin to it with the use of marking out and tacing nails allows for the instalation of the perlins far easyer. other aspects of the roofing are showen in these photos  

shows how the gable end truss is smaller for the outrigger

hw to install the lowest perlin on the edge of truss

strap bracing crossing over truss and under perlin

nail tacked in for easy instalation of perlins

tencioner

trusses at the end of the week

nog installed to help hold strap bracing and later hold outrigger

installing nogs inbetween trusses

side view of house



clamp used to keep truss down to double top plate for nailing

cyclone strap to hold down the ends of the trusses

the perlins on the edges of the houses are diffrent because they cannot cross over the edge of the truss so we prevent this by using a straight edge (rule, square etc) and place it across the end of the truss as showen in the picture above and then nail the perlin in.

this week we also installed strap bracing at the back end of the house this helps keep the roofs strength and together we install them by running them diaganaly across a saction of the roof above the truss and below the perlin and then chisel out a grove for the ends and with the use of the correct product nails nail them in then to increse the tencile strength we use the tensioner as showen above

the sun is coming out

this week we worked mainly on the trusses and installing perlins, braces and straightening the trusses as showen in the videos below all of these steps are important in constructing a strong and straight roof and i will explain further in my next post