19,6,2012

today we finished off the last off the purlins around the house. we had to start putting the purlins in at the  bottom instead of the top of the studs on each 7.2m side of the house because the ridge of the roof was not straight on these sides. so same again the purlins were put in on a chork line that was marked for each purlin at 715mm from top to top of each purlin. we staggerd the longer purlins so they were not all nailed into the same studs so they wouldnt have to much stress. the nail patern was a nail at the top and bottom of the width of the purlin into the studs to leave room for the bolts that go in the midle of the two nails. today we used hand tools, hand saw, radial arm saw, chork line, ect.