CAPENTRY: WEEK EIGHT

today time was spent on the rafters for the roof of our sleep out the hardest part was squaring it off and making sure that all the single rafters were square we also had to stand the wall up and braced then to the floor using our timber to level each wall so that the roof would fit on securely we used "G" clamps to hold the roof in place in the afternoon we headed into the computer lab and finished off the pricing sheets which were then handed in we also had an assessment on the computer which we had to complete the following day we started the morning in the class room learning about the different ways to lining the wall up using the dodger a dodger is a 20mm block fixed to the top plate on both ends then a string line will be ran from one block to the other forming a straight line then we used a identical 20mm block to measure the distance between the top plate the 20mm is for the thickness of the cavity batten to be fixed to the and the string line the block must fit with out disturbing the line at any time all the way along the top plate we to do this we used 2x4 timbers cut to size as braces fixed to the stud as close to the top plate and use this brace to line it up then used this same method to line up the front wall thus bringing our four constructed wall together then fixed packers along the side of the front wall and used them to hold the front wall to the side walls then fixed the rafters to the top plate and aligned them so they were all parallel once the roof was in place the fly rafter had to be attached to the top plates then we made out sprockets these make up the remainder of the roof they run from the last rafters on both ends to make up for the over hang nogs were also put in place to make a corner so the wall cladding can be fixed on to something after noggins were in place we then had to nail our fly rafter to the end of the rafter and along the sides on the ends of the sprockets creating the safit of the building