roof

The last few days have been great, learning heaps and cant wait to take it all back on site. We've been looking at the different members of the roof, their cuts and how to work them all out using math. I now thoroughly understand how to use the hancock roofing tables as well as learning a few very useful equations using cos and tan to calculate the rise and run of rafters and shortening for the creepers. Yesterday we spent most of the day doing the brown paper drawings which focused on different struts and the standatds that apply to them and I got a lot out of that because the struts is the one remaining part of the roof that I haven't had much to do with on site (usually chriso goes on with that while i do the eaves). Overall i very happy with what i've learnt overthe last couple of days

Back to the roof at TAFE and these first few days have been great. We’ve been focusing on the hip and valley roof which we’ve built on a small frame outside. I’ve really enjoyed doing the roofing units at TAFE cause it gives you a great opportunity to get your head around the theory side of the roof and also have a look at a few different ways it can be done, not just the way you do it on site. Although I’m pretty confident with most aspects of the hip and valley roof I haven’t yet had much practice measuring in and cutting props so it was great to have a go of cutting a few today. The roof we built included a scotch valley and a gable.