this blog is a record of the house that I helped to build along with my class during the Carpentry pretrade course I did at SIT chch

Thursday, 3 May 2012

Roof trusses and Purlins

In this post I will be showing a series of photos detailing the erection of the roof trusses, fixing of purlins and and roof cladding.
To note an outside contractor was used to fix the roof cladding but we erected all the trusses and purlins as a class.

Trusses arrive
sorting them out
first trusses up
more trusses up
starting on the other end
fitting in the jack trusses
gutter is up and starting on the purlins
Gutter with the inside of the soffit
purlins 
roof going on, note we have now wrapped the house
roof cavity from inside the house with ceiling batterns

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