week 2 of the new job

I'm still working at the same house that I was last week, this week we finished lifting all the pavers and started ripping up the tiles in the inside, this was the fun part, getting to smash them with a Kanga hammer.
We also removed the bricks from the rear of the house and upgraded the bracing by fitting multibrackets to help bring the house up to the current standerd before recadding in Ecoply to weather proof it.

view from the house looking down on Christchurch estury

Patio with pavers removed

stairs with pavers removed

removing bricks from rear of the house

Handybracket with Dynascrew about to go in

Wall with bricks and paper removed

Moleseal around floor slab 

getting ready for the Ecoply

with the Ecoply on

Tape sealing verticle joints

Starting to take up the tiles in thw foray

Me taking up tiles

finished result

starting my new apprenticeship

This week I started my new apprenticeship with Whyte construction, On Monday and Tuesday I was working with a crew doing tiling at a local hair dressers.

measuring and cutting tiles for front step

the floor inside

Today I was working with another crew doing some demo on an earthquake damaged house that also had moisture damage, this involved cutting out GiB, grinding out and lifting pavers and ripping down GiB in the kitchen ceiling.

water damage in garage

Sam cutting out Gib to expose the water damage

exposed concrete ceiling with Rondo GiB hangers

the area above the garage having the pavers lifted to expose  DPM

area to be removed

Me cutting out grout

really dusty work

Kitchen ceiling to be removed

me ripping down the GiB

kitchen with Exposed Rondo GiB hangers

Door knobs

As the last part of the last job we had as a class on the house was to install door knobs, unfortunatly due to heavy unseasonal snow we lost 2 of the last three days from the course so we only had time for our tutor James to show us how it was done, this you will see in the photos.

removing door stop.

Marking out area to be chised out, note it was funny moustache day

chiseling out recess for latch

fitting latch

screwing it in place

fitting the knobs

latch with knob shaft

screwing on the knobs

chiseling out for striker plate

screwing striker plate on

refitting the stops

the other side

the finished job