18/06/2012

today me liam and toucher finished off one side of the roof purlins. we started off by looking at the ones that were already there to make sure they were strait but they were not. we had to pull out the ends off and cut around 10mm off each 1 with the hand saw to kae it push up further at the ends making it straiten up along the whole house. once we had them all straight we carryed on orking down the roof make sure we staggerd the joins each purlin we put up. each spacing was 715mm centures. each prrlin had to have 2 4inch nails on each edge.

hand tools used: ful apron of tools, chalk line,

power tools used: drop saw.

12/6/2012

today at ucol we started to do purlins. 1st we had to measure down from the top of the truss 150mm an then 715mm gaps from then on. we chalk line every mark right across all the trusses. we tacked a nail into every 3rd chalk mark of every line so that we could lay the purlins down on the roff with out them sliding away. we then measurd 150mm off the hip rafter each side and ran another purlin up to the one on the trusses. we had to cut an angle on the hip rafer purlin so it came up flush with the top 1.we then went along each purlin nailing it in with 2 4inch nails an 1 purlin screw into every truss. the join on the purlins had to be staggered to help strenghten the roof.

11/06/2012

today i did hip rafters. each rafer had to be put in accuratly we started by putting in the premade rafers tht were already nailed together. once we had them sitting in place we nailed the bottom on the rafter in an then level the rafter an nailed the top. once all the rafters were in we had to nail plate the hip rafter together becasue the timber was to short. once both sides hip rafters were nailed in it was the end of the day

hand tools used: full apron hammer rule etc level string line.
power tools used: nail gun