Disassembling Steel Frames (13/06/11)

Today in the morning some of us boys got told to disassemble 4 sheds that had steel framing. We were instructed to separate each house parts form each other so they wont get mixed together when others use it.

Us boys here disassembling the steel wall frames.

Trusses Up (13/06/2011)

Today me and the team started to get the trusses up and fix them to the top plates. We ran string lines to line up the middle part of the truss to keep each truss equal.

    

     <---------string lines--------->

Spacing between each truss was determined by a piece of wood measured at the correct spacing of 845 mm inside both trusses after it was in place we hammered 100mm galvenized size nails to fix them to the top plates.

<--Timber measuring the space between each truss.

<--Fixed with 100mm galvanized sized nails to the top plates.

We also used temporary purlins to hold & keep together the trusses, by using scrap pieces of timber left unused. 

7/06/11

On the site, waiting for our arrival for our roof trusses, eventually came and then we were able to continue with the process of the scaffolds by needing to finish bracing, hand rails, connecting couplers and the last side of the house. We also added kick boards along the inside of the standard poles and created a few stairs to get upto another platform with shorter sized planks.
Eventually we finished our scaffolding on our house and now ready to put up our roof trusses.

1/06/11

Down at the site today putting up our scaffolding for our unitec house, using poles as ledges, rails braces,temporary and standard posts.We scaffolded  the perimeter of our building at about the height were our first nogs are on the wall frames, worked at that height right around the house connecting each pole with coupler connecters.

After break we continued on our process of scaffolding through the day and braced the sides for extra support. we also ran a few ledges along the standards for hand rails for safety.
Put up the planks and had them laid on the metal poles and nailed so they wont move and fall off the poles.