Monday 16 December 2013

Weekly Boarding Unit: Week 23

What's been happening this week?
Activity/Observations

 Continue erection of timber frame, envelope now complete - continue roof counter battens (70mm x 75mm) Install Tyvek breather membrane – Fit cedar fascia/barge – Parapets – roof tiles
 Complete second skin sheathing and timber framing
 Internal partition walls and floor zone 1st floor acoustic insulation + netting - commence floating/acoustic floor to 1st floor
 Commence double layer fire line plaster boarding GF ceilings
 Electrical first fix, containment
 External door and window installations + taping etc
 Warmcell installations, walls completed, roof to follow
 Air tight membrane + taping now advanced
 1st fix plumber soil and vent pipes for waste water
 Kerb racing to parking and building approach, include line of swale (the swale is shallow ground depression designed to manage water runoff, filter pollutants, and increase rainwater infiltration)

So what's next?

 Roof tiling, outer cladding

Roof counterbattens being fixed-doubled up at the eaves and ridge, these allow overhangs to be formed without causing cold bridging, as unlike the roof casettes they lie ouside the insulation zone.

Roof with windtight breather membrane and battens on, with roof tiles laid out ready for fixing.


Inside the building with the plasterboard fixed to the floor soffit.


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