12th June

Tools used: hammer, nails, gas nail gun, 8m tape, pencil, radial saw, straight edge, level, calculater
Safety gear: ear muffs, safety boots
 
First hour was spent with Matt learning about how to calculate the pitch and lengths of  roof [trusses]
using sine - cosine - and tangent. There are 4 formula's you can use.

Rest of the day we finished of the rafters for the trusses [at the ends]

Then went through and nailed the end trusses to the outside of the top plates with Z nails [1 each side]
   Z nail

Where the other jack trusses meet we had to chisel out abit of wood so the brace plate would set flash
[1 nail on the bottom / 2 x 25mm galv nails on each side of the plate 8 nails]

Myself and another student went around to check the outside corners were plumb using a straight edge and level. One corner was out so Mark explained the Dwangs  were pushing the stud out. So we removed the 2 dwangs. Put a clump on and screw it up until the wall was straight - using the straight edge to check. Re-cut 2 dwangs . checked they fit properly, then nailed them in using the gas nail gun