Exterior work- Bulkheads, cavity battens, and linear board

The following four images show the internals of the bulkheads that run around the outside of the building. Their purpose is to provide large external gutters with a structure and to encase associated spouting.  

The bulheads are made up of a series of 600mm x 660mm ply boxes set roughly 900mm apart. This photo is looking up from below the structure and the H3.2 treated boards that create the base of the soon to be laid guttering can be seen

When the boxes have been bolted on to the internal framing of the building (we frame specifically for these boxes inside the building line) we wrap the boxes in weather proof paper and then overlay 7.5mm Hardiboard.

This shows the boards laid across the top of the bulhead on which the guttering (coloursteel profile) is to be laid)

Cavity battens set to take linear board over the top.

Linear board laid over cavity battens.

Finishing work- Finishing lines and hardware

Scocia

Skirting

Architrave

I was pretty pleased with this. As you can probably tell this is a catch for  a cavity slider. What I was most pleased about was the fact that I installed two cavity sliders without destroying either. And I managed to install the hardware for them as well.

This is a section of coving that I had to install on which vinyl was to be laid in a bathroom area 

Probably not my best work. I used a too large hole saw to cut the hole for this door lock as you can see in the picture. 

Striker plate

Finishing Work -Floors and Feature Walls

 These following two images show an oak tongue and groove floor that I helped to create. The first image is a landing between two sets of stairs. The second is the landing at the top of the same stairs. The process involved cutting lengths to size, gluing the floor, then laying 3-4 rows of flooring. The last row of each lay would be  wedged in to the other rows so that all the rows were tight together. The last row would then be secret nailed to the substrate. Thus fixing the laid rows hard together. The secret nails do provide some fixing but the majority of the holding in place is done by the glue when it goes off. We used Selleys No More Nails.

This image (below) shows the boarder that we created around the floor at the top of the stairs as per the clients requirements. This took a bit longer but was rewarding in the finished look.The different sides of the boarder had to be laid as the rest of the floor was laid. That is to say we couldn't lay the boarder and then the floor inside it. So you will notice that one side of the boarder and the top of the boarder are laid but the other side closest to the camera has not been laid.  The blocks at the bottom of the photo are used to wedge the floor boards hard together before secret nailing.

These images show a feature wall that I created. I had done a couple of bigger versions under supervision. This one was done solo for the most part. It has an oak bead around the edge and between the different boards on the feature wall. I would secret nail and glue (Max Bond) the bead and then lay the sheet on top of the bead. 

Building Insulating and lining Internal Walls

This photo shows the insulation of one of the walls that I built. The batts in this picutre are designed to reduce heat transfer through the wall and also to reduce the sound penetration between rooms on either side of the wall. Every wall we built on this project was fully insulated with "soundproof" batts as per the clients requirement to minimise the transfer of noise between commercial tenancies.

This picture shows the structure of the walls that we built. The walls were approximately 2400mm high Studs 600mm centers and nogs at 800 and 1600 from FFL.

Bracing Elements

This is the corner of a bracing element. Bracing elements are screwed off in such a way that the Gib provides bracing and strenth to the wall that it is screwed to. Bracing elements are important in creating strength against vertical  loadings on these particular walls. This is a two story structure, thus all bracing elements in this project were on the first floor providing vertical load resistance.

There are a wide variety of bracing elements designed for different purposes. The requirement for a bracing element is determined by architectural engineers. If a bracing element is required it will be shown on architectural drawings and coded according to the type of bracing element that is required. For example a GS1 is a bracing element by which one side of a wall needs to be screwed off to the specification outlined in the Gib bracing guide book. In the case above, the wall was a 9 meter GS2 bracing element and required a pattern of screw fixing in four corners of the wall on both sides of the wall. In addition we used handy brackets in the two bottom corners of the bracing element in order to satisfy the requirements of the plan detail provided by the architectural engineer.