Today I worked on weatherboards as we still have little bits to do around the house that we haven't completed. Rich had prepared the first part of it, as he had to fix some problems with the levels, but after that, it was good to go.
Much like doing the rest of the boards on the house, except we were unable to hold a level in this area to check it was sitting correctly as the frame for the door disallowed this - for this reason, the marks up the wall had to be really accurate for us to work against.
Also did the section to the left of the meterbox (which joined to weatherboards running down the house). With this section I worked from the bottom upwards (which has been different to have we have done the boards for the rest of the house.
The level used was to match up against the already fixed boards on the wall, a piece of weatherboard was held level at these two points & then a ruler was held flush against the weatherboard it would be sitting on & this mark was then transferred to the weatherboard temporarily being marked out to fit. A measurement was then taken from the other end to see how far the board protruded from the wall (this was the length that needed to be cut off when doing the corner cut so that it would fit good.
I hand cut this once it was all marked out & then held to the wall, the last part was to check out the top section which would allow for the board above that it would also sit against.
Before fixing on, I had to make sure that there was no large gaps in the corner section where the two boards sat on each other, as this would compromise weather tightness. The corner joins are not too important as a corner mould would be put over these parts later.
Once it was ok, the same fixing patterns were used as the rest of the house, with the same procedures followed.
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