April 6

• We put the perforated aluminium foil over the joists of the floor and let it drop at 100mm between each of the joists and then nailing them in at the joists. Safety of the perforated foils is to wear sunglasses on sunny days because of the strong reflection it gives. Then we applied the ply wood on top for the flooring as staggered sheet joints and making the edges match T and G (tongue and groove) flooring with no gaps. Then we nailed the floor into the joists with galvanised jolt head nails. Nailing edges of sheets at 150mm crs and nailing the intermediate joists at 300mm crs.

• Then we nailed timber that was 90mm thick on the ends and middle of the bottom plate sticking up as a stop for the back wall and as a spacing guide. Then we lifted the back wall onto the floor and braced it on each side to the bottom of the bottom plate to the top of the wall. We lifted the frames up onto the floor and placed them in the places they were suppose to go in and braced them from the bottom of them to the top of the back wall. And the last wall we lifted and braced across the face of it (temporary braces). Then we made a string line going across the bottom plate and used a measuring block to check if was the same thickness as the spacer block and to check if the top was plumbed we used a spirit level and placed it on the corner of the back wall and frames and when they were plumbed we nailed the brace in the inside of the walls and frames. After that we cleaned up our workspace and went inside the workshop and planned and talked about what we going to do next week and how we were going to fix what needed to be fixed before we moved onto our roof planning.

• Overall as a leader i found it challenging. What i found challenging was trying to understand what to do on the first attempt and trying to keep my team organised by giving them tasks to do while doing them myself. But as i listened the second time my mind was starting to click more easily by trying to picture it in my head. One way that made it more easy for me to understand of what to do in each task we were given to progress in our work was reading the House Building Guide if i had listened and red this book earlier i would've been clued onto what we were doing in each step of the way.