timber frame

once all the scaffolding was finished, the next step was to remove anything in the way of the stud wall going in. so we spent the next half day taking down the wire fence that was up, once it was down we went to the class room to be shown a bit about stud walls, and wat was to be done next.

the next day we started sorting out the wall, we had all the timber and materials already, so we got straight into it. first we measured all the top and bottom wall plates, and the trimmers, we cut it out and set it out on the floor so once it was all nailed we could stand it straight up. we made the wall in 5 sections, joining it bit by bit. we had one setback that we got around quickly, our lecturer read 900 instead of 600 when measuring the plates. this ment we had to change all the sizes of the windows to make it all fit together. overall i enjoyed building the room, i think its better doing hands on work, just like you would at work.