week seven

this week consisted of the rest of the joists being put in to place and reinstating measurements for the wet areas that had to be ply wood which is different from all the rest of the house that has particle board before the ply wood could go down the sicilation foil needed to be drapped over the joists with a 100mm dip in every span of the joist this was made possible by constructing a tool made up of 4x2 timber fixed into a way that gave the dip into the foil there where two areas that need to be prepared with the foil for the ply wood once the foil was set and prepared we then measured out the ply to fit int o the specified areas and using our skill saw cut thhe ply to size and fitted it in to the area using flooring nails and later to be screwed dwon with a square drive head screw  this was all done before the two week holiday .........

week six

week six consisted of the completion of the sub flooring which included the start from a jack stud/pile to the bearer up towards the joists and the completion of the joists also nogging was required to go in between all the joists at two different points and through the centre at allocated points of the sub floor just to provide extra strength once all the joists were put in to position we used wire dogs/ z nails to fix the joists to the bearers permanently and began to look at markings for the floor sheets which are made up of particle board in majority of the floor except for wet areas such as the bathroom and toilets there we will be using 20 ply wood because of its tendency to withstand more water than the particle board

week five

this week we received our 8GB memory stick in which we can store all the information that we have uploaded from another source such as the internet. on this week we also were given the chance to view a slide show on the trip that "Q" and the class of 2006 took to the mill in Tuakau this gave us an understanding  on where the wood comes from and the necessary methods or steps it takes to produce the timber from tree all the way to what we receive on site after the slide was viewed the timber assignment was handed to us it consisted of the  explanations of the timber grading the chemical composition that has been embedded in to the certain timbers explanation of the timber seasoning and the meaning of MSG. Also the week had no signs of sunshine so we came to realize how unsafe our work environment was ans it was explained to us that what to be done was meant to happen prior to the start of construction and this was our site safety plan and another thing on the agenda that day was the traditional take off system and how we had to use this method to calculate  the timber required for the sub floor

week four

this week consisted of mainly fixing the bearers together using stainless steel 4 inch because bearers are made up of 100x45 fixed back to back to create a bearer these were fixed to the top plate of the jack studs  and then we were looking at the boundry joist the first of many joists to be put on to the top of bearers these are also 100x45 planks  which make up the bearers

week three

week three was a majority of the completion of laying down sole plates ,the purpose of the sole plate is to give the jack studs a platform in which they can be nailed to it also gives a flat platform to begin the leveling of the floor the sole plates run in the same line that we had marked with our string line providing information about offsets then the jack studs where fixed to sole plates with a special system that consists of using a level to scribe the bottom to the sole plate cutting it then returning to that spot and using the dumpy and mark it to the middle cross heirs on the dumpy to determine the height that the stud will be this can only be done once the floor level has been established with the batter board once on e has been scribed and leveled it must then be braced up using the level as well the jack stud could be braced plum both ways determining how bad the bow in the sole plate is, and the sequence will continue till the jack studs are complete on all sole plates it is manditory for anyone who uses the dumpy to limit the people looking through it and not to move it this will alter the datum height the datum height is the first height registered ob to the stick by the dumpy then we added a top plate to the top of the jack studs to give a more horizontal platform for our bearers to be placed

 we started on our bearers and by next week should be fixing them to the top plate of the jackstuds

week two 2012

in this week we continued with the profiles and completed them before the day subsided after the profiles were done we began to clean  the covered area and continued to clear this area up to satisfaction our tools were handed out to us excluding the drill set we were given a sketching exercise and started our site set out  and wer given the opportunity to start the site plan and  a critical path planning scheme for the house was drawn up and added to with the input of unit standards and when they had to be completed and also dates in which the path had to abide by the rest of the week consisted of completing the critical path plan to satisfaction and we wer given a plan for the house we were to be constructing

week one 2012

On this week we were taking through the introduction process where we were able to meet not only our class members but also able to meet the tutors that would have to put up with us in the duration of the year they went by the names Quesnall Harris and Brian Payne we were also fortunate to meet the head of department Derek
we were taken on a tour through the houses that are already in progress due to last years students and given a feel of what we were expected to do  when we were done touring the houses we were then introduced to our working environment which was situated in R block on the southern campus we were given an induction sheet check list which had a list of tool we would acquire before commencement of the house also given to us was a lectures program outline and this gave us a fair idea of what to expect through the duration of the year in this week we were also provided with the log in information to help us get on to emit however nothing was present at this time the following day was made up us reconstructing our saw horse exercise for the remainder of the week we also were blessed to have in our presence the help of Helen who provided some information about the counselling services that M.I.T provided  through a power point presentation the following day was the completion on the saw horse exercise and we received a helpful talking to by the sexual health advisory representative Peta Palalagi which was also presented in the form of a power point presentation and by the end of this week on we made a start on the profiles