cladding

On tuesday we started on the cladding unit. Ours was to research three different types of cladding, timber, hardie sheeting and fibre cement sheeting. As part of the research we looked at differnt fixings used for different products, safety issues and installation. After doing the research i found that the james hardie website was the most exhaustive in terms of providing information about the products they supply. After lunch we spent the remainder of the afternoon doing take offs for cladding, we found that working out the the amount needed for sheeting was far more involved than the workings out for the hardieplanks.
On wednesday morning we started the practical work on cladding. Firstly we made a height rod based on the height of the wall, the size of the cladding, the overlap and coverage of the cladding. We then installed stop battens on the internal and external corners of the walls for the battens to run into and transferred the marks from the height rod onto them. I worked with King1Daley on one section of the wall, we were using pine cladding and it turned out looking pretty good, we took the cladding up to the bottom edge of the window and we're gonna put sheeting above that to take it up to the top of the wall.