Today I was head down, bum up. I was determined to get that back wall completed with weatherboards, if it was the last thing I did. Alas, I fell short on the last run. Bummer - but atleast it won't take long to get done tomorrow.
Worked with Ben today to try and get things sussed. Found the chalk lines were slightly out in the middle of the house due to the way the lines were run, so Rich had said that these would sit slightly below here but would angle up at the ends of the house and be ok.
Had troubles with some of the joins sitting tight against each other, as we found that some of the timber we have left to use was slightly bowed, so when we put it on the drop saw, the cuts weren't straight. To fix this, we used a planer to get it shaved down to the right consistency so it fit better.
We are getting really low on lengths of timber, so we have had to stop doing one of the walls so that the rest can be completed first. This has meant that on some runs along the length of the back wall there are around 3 joins, which isn't really ideal.
This really had us thinking about the layout as we couldn't have joins fixed within 2 cavity battens of each other, and when a join was eventually due to be on a cavity batten that already had a join on it - we had to make sure there was atleast two runs of boards between them (but ideally three). Like a game of tetris! The only problem being that it was difficult, because it also had to fit in with lengths of timber we had available... nightmare!
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