Today we got outside and commenced marking out, measuring and cutting out of our bottom plates to fit ontop of the sheet flooring we had put down the last two weeks we were here. We measured in 90mm from all ends of the of joists on the extremity of the building. We then pinged lines between each corresponding 90mm marker with the chalk line. This way we knew and could visualise where our bottom plates would be placed.
After this we then decided which plates to run through to the end of the building and which plates were butt jointed into those plates. We are placing in a double plate also known as a ribbon plate.
Once we had cut all our 90 x 35 plates we then moved onto cutting out and fixing the hardies compressed 19mm cement sheets in the bathroom area. We used a diamond blade circular saw hooked up to a diamond blade, we were informed by Paul that simple P1 dust masks were suitable for cement but not suitable for asbestos. Cutting with this saw was a new experience for myself and using it was quite different to a normal circular saw in its feel cutting through the hardies sheet. We fixed these down by pre drilling and then screwing onto the joists. Each joint in the flooring was staggered with the next according to the Australian Standards.
Around the perimeter of the strip floored area in bedroom 3 we cut packers out of chipboard to increase the height of the plate to the same level as the plates on the sheet flooring.
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