Architraves and skirting

Today I continued with the work we started yesterday and I did some architraves around the wardrobe and door in the room that Warner and I have been doing, once this was done we started on the skirting around the base of the walls, this was done by square cutting the longest wall in the room the scribing the internal corners and mitreing the external ones.
before we started James showed us how to scribe skirting on some colonial skirting as this is one of the hardest to do.

James showing us how to cut skirting

scribing the joint

the finished result

Me test fitting the architraves

nailing on the sides

glueing the joints at the top

fitting it in and nailing it off

the finished door and wardrobe architraves

door and wardrobe

Me cutting the scribe on the skirting

using the coping saw to finish off

fixing it in place

the finished skirting

internal corner 

external corner

Architraves and ceiling man hole

At this stage of the build we are upto doing the finishing work as the course finishes next week so the build is nearly done.
Today we learnt about Architraves for the doors and windows, Our tutor James took us though the process of measuring, cutting and fitting them as you will see in the first photos.
Warner and I had the job of cutting out, framing and finishing the ceiling man hole, this was done using the same method using architraves, because the hole was slightly out of square I had to pack out and scribe the architraves so as to get the correct querk.

James measuring and marking out the querk

fixing top and side in place

A very tidy Mitre

Applying PVA glue to the mitres

Finishing it off

Warner measuring the man hole for framing it up

The Man hole framed out

the lip for the door in place

the Architraves finished

Ceiling linings

In this post now that I have some photos I will go back and explain aboout the ceiling linings that we put up.
We used 10mm standard GIB that is 1.2m wide that we screwed 300mm centers using a power screwer with with GIB glue on the ceiling batterns, where we joined 2 sheets across a long room such as the lounge we used a glue covered panel behind the joint line as you will see in some of the photos.

Me putting the glue up

Me using the power screwer

Tutor James showing us how to join sheets

holding it up

putting the panel up making sure the light wires protrude through the holes

getting it in place

James showing us how to get the edges to line up tightly

Me screwing it off while the others hold it

screwing on some batterns to support the joint until it dries

finished job

Interior wall lining (GIB)

Because I forgot my camera while we were doing the ceiling and i'm waiting to get some photos from one of the other students I will carry on with the wall lining, I will post about the ceiling when I have the photos.
We have been doing this over the last couple of days, we are using 10mm standard GIB  fixed horizontally, some of the walls are bracing panels and have required nail spacings as you will see in one of the photos.
We screwed the ceiling but nailed the walls using standard 30mm GIB clouts at 300mm centres for standard panels and 150mm centres for bracing panels with glue behind.

the corner of our room pre GIB

Some of the team marking a panel out with Tutor James watching

Warner and I lifting a panel into place

ready to fix

Warner holding, me fixing top

Warner fixing the bottom

About to start the wardrobe

Me fixing the side of the wardrobe

the wardrobe finished

covering the exposed Lintel 

nailing of the Lintel GIB

The room finished

Compare with photo 1

Bracing panel nailing pattern in corner

starting on the hallway

the Hallway with first panels up