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 5 April 2012


me with almost finished roof
the roof

close up

Warner working on it

Warner and I

another view

warner working on it again





*House subfloor-This is the start of the house that we are building as part of the pretrade course, this first part cover the subfloor and flooring.

setting out for the foundation

Me at the start of the build

me ripping down perimeter joist

framing up sub floor

me ripping again

and again

Perimeter joist with bearer

perimeter joists with bracing

inside of perimter

laying down center bearer

putting in the floor joists

floor joists

the whole class busy

floor joists on bearer with packing

canterlever section

making sure it's level

joist hangers with packers for fixing poly brackets

me with sub floor

all the joists now in

fixing for joist

poly brackets in

underfloor poly

start of the flooring

H 3.2 ply for bathroom

me during flooring

flooring going down

whole class doing the floor

the finshed floor