8/04/11

Today we continued making flats. We started on the different sized ones. I helped mark out the 1ft, 2ft, 3ft, 6ft and 8ft sections this morning remembering to accound for the extra 4cm's that need to be taken off for accuracy.
I then cut the majority of the lengths out along with the rotary saw with Sarah L so the others could work on the frames.
The 6 of us were able to get most of the frames done. I helped put together two in the afternoon after all the bits were cut. We decided to finish making as many frames as we could and put the skins on on monday to speed up the process due to the lack of people turning up.

7/04/11

Today after the lecture and screening we continued building flats. There were only seven of us however which was quite irritating.

We were able to make another three frames and put the skin on four previously made ones.

I helped with the skins. I think I have gotten quite used to the nail gun now and I can work with it efficiently. I also did measuring and marking up for the nail gun.

Model Box:

This is a bit late but last tuesday; the 29th of March we all put a model box of our work together. I made the table for the living room out of foam board and glued it together with mastic.

5/04/11

Sorry post is late.
Today we started to build flats. We started out making a flat chart so we woul know what we needed to build and confirmed that we were going to have a slanted roof in Gregors room.

Flats:


The small diagram shows which letter goes with which wall, (just a diagram not measured)

A = 2@4'

B = 1'6" , 2'6"(H), 2@4

F = 2' (H), 2'(F), 2@4', 2'

C = 2', 2'6"(H), 2@4', 3'6"

D = 2@3' , 2', 2@2' (H) ,2@2' (F)

E = 2@2' , 2@4' , 2@1' , Fireplace wall

G = 4@3'6", 2@5'(H)

H= header, F= footer

Amount of Each

4' = 10

3'6" = 5

3' = 2

2' = 5

1'6" = 1

1 = 2

Header

5' = 2

2'6 = 1

2' = 3

Footer

2' = 3


We began cutting wood for the back and were shown how to put them together.

• Drill two holes on the ends of the long wood
• Mark the length at 2ft, 4ft, 6ft
  
• Then we get the five small lengths and screw them in as evenly as possible
  
• Then attatch the other longer length to the other side.
• Then we began the skin
• Put PVA glue over the frame on one side and lay the MDF over it eevnly.
• THen get a nail gun and follow the frame on the outside and the joining lengths.

I helped make the fireplace frame with drilling, marking and screwing together and then worked with Emma and Hannah to put the skins on the other frames with the nail gun. We did four frames today.

including myself there were nine people working on the flats today.