what our house ended up looking like

over all i am proud of the work i have done on this house i have learnt alot and have got confused at times to, i hope to over the next few years gain lots more skills, and hope to one day  build my own house, i am looking forward to getting out and gaining lots more knowledge and getting some hours.

finishing lines

skirting, when we did our finishing lines we would measure up then go cut a 45 degree angle out of one end, then cut most the way up that 45 degree angle with a 90 degree angle then we would get a hack saw and cut all the way up the cut until we we mm from the edge of the cut, this would leave us with a small triangle at the top, this allows movement in the house and stops cracking in paint work. it almost looks like two 45degree angles meeting.

doors

explained this photo lower down.

here we are making room for the hardwear we drilled the big hole with a 54mm hole borer and drilled the smaller hole with a 22mm drill bit, it was 900mm off the ground. when drilling we had another person watching to make sure that we where drilling square, some people also took the doors off and put them on sore horses and drilled the holes out that way.

we then had to chisel out a bit for the lock to fit in we had to be very careful doing this as if you went to close to the edge it would break,
when i was fixing the keep i misplaced it and had to rebog it as it was hanging to far over it now looks alot better.

carrying and storing GIB

in this photos it shows how we stacked and carried our gib, we would always lift with two or more people as some of the gib especial the aqualine was very heavy, we stacked it in lengths and layed it evenly across the floor so that the floor wouldn't sink in places, it was also a nice dry spot to store the GIB board

John and myself working on our room

we fixed standard GIB all around the room except for the corner, in the corner we used braceline GIB this has a stronger core and is fixed every 50mm in the corners then 150mm from then on round the edges with clout pins/ gib pins.

the wardrobe

to get the piece of gib in the back of the wardrobe we had to cut down the back of the gib and fold it into the back of the wardrobe then open it out, this is what it ended up looking like

fixing gib board to walls

here it shows 3 extra blocks fixed to studs to pull the gib in tight to the gorilla grip glue, this stops the gib from bowing out in future.

gibing around doors

first we fixed the piece of gib to the wall and over the door, we then went behind the gib and cut from the back down each side of the door way, we then cut it at the top, finished product as above.

starting the inside

we first went round the house straightening studs, and fixing bottom plates to the floor, we then made sure that all nogs,studs etc where flush so that when the GIB goes on it would sit nicely.

we started with the lounge first as it is the biggest area to cover we used the longer 6m sheets to do this area making sure it was staggerd and back block so joins are tight.

fixing corner soakers

fixing weatherboards with 162mm spacings

putting up batterns to fix weather boards

Putting up the weatherboards

we put the cavity battens up,The first thing that happend was we set up a story rod to get the right heights so that weatherboards would be even the whole way round the house, we marked where the story rod met then ran a chalk line along and pinged it, this is to match the cedar boards upto.
we had to make sure that there wasnt a join on top of each other  it had to be atleast 2 full weatherboards above, we used mitre joints throughout the joints this is to ensure that they hold for longer than just butting them up, each weather board had to be 162mm up from the below board, we came into a bit of trouble when we started following another line that had been put there by accident we then had to cut the nails out of the back of the weather board with a hack saw blade we took about 4 boards down and redid them, we also had to paint where we had cut to ensure that you couldnt see the joint or the weather wont take to it as easily. the spacings of the nails where 42mm up from the bottom of the weatherboard we had speacial nail plates which stopped us from putting smiley faces in the cedar board, we pre drilled then nailed. we also used a plumb with a string line on it to fix all the nails in a straight line. we used diamond head stainless steel nails.

holidays and working

did lots of surfing, and worked most the holidays for a landscaping company,

i helped out build a deck and pond, and also helped build the fence