Flooring/Shower 14/08/2012

With the blocking and reinforced joist done, today we were to start laying the flooring down. First things first tho, we were to do our FFL (finished floor level) to make sure we were'nt out. The dumpy was set up and one by one, we took the measurements and wrote them down. Some of the support boards under the bearers had been shifted so we re adjusted to set them right. With the joist all level and looking good. We moved onto phase 2, laying down the strand board

-Strand board was cut to size
-Measurements were made on the the boundry joist
-Marks on the strand board for where the the joist run so we can nail into it
-Glue was put onto the joist before laying down the floor board, making sure to brush the area down before hand
-10mm off the edge of the boundry joist was scored to keep the floor board from hanging over and getting in the way of our weather boards later down the track
-Once squared up, we went along with the nail gun and sent it home in all the marked spots from before
-Doing the same with the other floor boards, hitting the ends of them with a mul and a block of wood that sat at the edge to get them flush and tight

The next step was to start on the shower base. We had to measure, cut and slope bits of wood so the water would ran into the centre where a drain pipe would lay. We started by packing on side, bringing it in closer and giving it more support. We nailed on board on then with another, we sloped the edge facing inwards. We then measured and found our middle. Marked and went 150mm either side. To bits of timber running through the middle, we scored down 40mm in the middle and cut it out with the skillsaw. Nailed them in then ran boards from the corners to meet in the middle. Cut the tips on a 45` angle. Thus for strenghtning the shower base once on.

So the floor boards had started to being laid and nailed in. Leveled again with the dumpy and corrected. We started on sloping the shower and making sure that every aspect was taken into consideration. Having the floor sitting level will make things a whole lot easier for when we stand the walls and framing for our roof. If the floors off, then everything is off.