foundations

today was all practical,a long day down on the site .today we started of where we finished up yesterday,we started by re adjusting our string lines and bracing our profiles we also had to re shoot some of the levels on the dumpy.today was a hardout ,with a lot of work to be done,as a class we laminated our bearers which was fun,we also put up and braced our jack studs .

building site

today our class was on the building site preparing the grounds for construction,we started with a quick tidy up ,clearing rubbish,de nailing boards,and other general preparations.
After the break we split into groups and started doing our profiles and finished the day by putting batter boards up.

profiles

6/4/11 we sat our hliti license hopefully we all get it.
 We also done a profiling excercise,which was challenging but fun,first we shot our datum point which was 2389.we then minused that by 1512 to give us our FFL .After that we marked the corners of our house out,once we figured that out we then marked out where our profiles would go.once the profiles were up we nailed some batter boards up to the height of our FFL.we had our level all we had left to do wwas run a string line to give the outline of the house

tuesday

today we had tutorial,it was about paragraphing ,we also went into the work shop for a little while and done a bit of work on our stools and sign offs.

site safe

we spent the entire day in the class,first two periods marty introduced our new buit 4542.
it is 40% theory and 60% practical it includes the topics site prep,sub floor and flooring,and a series of practical activities.

the second half of our day we completed our site safe training with Colin o'Gorman,hopefully we all achieved.site safe was a bit of an eye opener for me to the real dangers that are involved in the building industry.