Scaffolding as art.

[saveasteading]

We are wrapping the scaffolding to try to keep the rain out while framing and cladding. 

[Redbeard]

I like the way you used the cardboard cut-outs to boost the apparent numbers!😉

Edited Tuesday at 17:30 by Redbeard

[SteamyTea]

I work in an industrial heritage visitor attraction, we use a lot of scaffolding in creative ways.

It is brilliant stuff.

 

[saveasteading]

1 hour ago, Redbeard said:

the apparent numbers

 

There were 3 more off picture.

The gang was 5, but in the afternoon others turned up after completing other jobs, because it needed all hands to beat the wind. It had been foul weather.

[ProDave]

I am more curious what is all the timber laid out on the floor?

[Big Jimbo]

The guy second from the right is defo the bloke who plays keyboards in the Pet Shop Boys

[FuerteStu]

17 minutes ago, ProDave said:

I am more curious what is all the timber laid out on the floor?

Wall template? 

[SteamyTea]

35 minutes ago, Big Jimbo said:

The guy second from the right is defo the bloke who plays keyboards in the Pet Shop Boys

 

Looks more like something from The Long Good Friday.

 

But no matter.

 

[Big Jimbo]

Nah, defo the bloke from PSB

[MikeSharp01]

I like that you have Ned Kelly wearing his metal head gear working there in the middle with the green high viz.

[saveasteading]

4 hours ago, ProDave said:

timber laid out on the floor?

You see rooms.

Sole plates.

The  structure is hybrid.

The portal frame stays in place and already has a new roof.. The existing slab is 175 thick.

Rooms internally will be timber stud and the external walls are being studded too, as the photo shows.

 

6x2 joists and a few steel beams over big spaces.

 

One great first floor deck will then receive walls and ceilings.

 

The sole plates are packed up to level and will then be grouted,  but they are not fixed yet as can be seen. Due to kicking and wind that will have to be done again.

The timber house industry works to +/- 10mm, which appals me.  We are working to +/-2.  ie try for 1mm but accept that a few will vary from that. We hope the early precision makes everything that follows fit better and not squeak.

[SteamyTea]

♫You see rooms.

Sole plates.

The  structure is hybrid.

What a wonderful life.♫

[ProDave]

9 hours ago, saveasteading said:

You see rooms.

Sole plates.

The  structure is hybrid.

The portal frame stays in place and already has a new roof.. The existing slab is 175 thick.

Rooms internally will be timber stud and the external walls are being studded too, as the photo shows.

It just struck me as "wrong" with the wall plates sitting directly on concrete no membranes or anything looks like a recipe for damp and rot.  Just me expecting better detail?

[saveasteading]

3 hours ago, ProDave said:

wrong

The slab has a dpm ( I took bores to confirm construction quality and spec.). The puddles demonstrate that the concrete is not porous.

The sole plates have dpc stapled underneath, just in case, which will sit on the grout packing.

I'm using tanalised throughout as an extra level of risk reduction. It's OTT at 1st floor but at about 20p /m more than CLS, it is insurance against damp and worm, and even wasps which would chew CLS.

 

The slab is agricultural. It was built as a grainstore so they included  dpm and strong construction for 3m of grain. 

But the levels are awful, with 30mm variation in random hummocks.  So the highest point is datum. In theory the puddles will coincide with plate level, but we have now kept most of the weather out, and will try to remove the bulk of the water.

 

Keep the queries coming though.