2nd may

• tools: 30m tape, 8m tape, fold rule, pencil [sharp], sliding square

First part of class was sent on learning the different parts of a timber frame - top plates, bottom plate, lintel [placed above opening, taking the load of then], timmer studs [holds the lintel up] sill trimmer [windows sit on], studs [take the verical loas from the top plate to the bottom plate] dwangs [bracing between the studs], blocks [single - exterior corners, and doubles - wear wall meet], jack studs [below and above openings / not a full stud] double studs [2 studs next to trimmer studs].
Then we did an exercise describing each part, giving it to another student to work out what we had just described

The rest of the day was sent making in all these parts on the bottom and top plates