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