Tandie Langton: Level 2 Diploma in Carpentry for Construction

Here is a selection of my Carpentry since starting my Level 2 Diploma at SGS College, from the end of Feb.to Dec. 2012

The final practical test. 18 hours long, but not all at once!

Completed test!

Door hung

Architrave and
barge board in place

Door handle and lock fitted

Frame leveled and fix to the wall, and the cladding attached

Stud work complete ready to lift into place to level

Initial stages the main frame is braced and working
out the correct positions for the noggins

Boxing in a soil pipe

Frame built around the soil pipe

Then boxed in using plywood, cut around
the pipe with a coping saw in two halves

Repair to moulding

Finished repaired

Much of the shape carved to match profile

New section of wood, with pencil marks of what I need to carved away

Moulding with damaged section cut away

Loft Hatch and Water Tank

Loft hatch and water tank side view

Water Tank on platform built up in a pyramid shape to distribute the weight of the tank.

My roof hatch. Made the hatch to fit between the trusses with 10 mm clearance. Made box screwed noggins between trusses then fitted box with wedges and screwed in place with a 12 mm under hang for plasterboard.

From below

Roof Trusses

Barge board and Fascia

Compound mitre cut on the barge board and 45 degree mitre on the Fascia.

Barge board cut and attached to the ladders

I had to extend each truss so that I would be able cut everything to the same length and then attach the Fascia. I used the blue chalked string to mark it on before cutting them to length.

Ladders built and attached to the end truss to from the verges.
(You can just see Andy in this photo who I have been working with.) My ladder is on the far side.

Noggin cut and attached to the double
trusses before fitting the Vellux window

Diagional braces at 45 degrees, (or less)

All the trusses plumb and braced. Each brace was marked against each other before securing to the trusses to ensure they were kept at 400 mm centres

Both end trusses with temporary braces, the other truss plates are at 400 mm centres

End truss, plumb and temporarily braces to the wall, nailed to the truss plates, in turn which are nailed to the wall plate. The end trusses are set back 50 mm from the parallel wall plate to ensure air circulation in the roof

Stairs

The handrail, balustrade and stairs finished, from the side

The finished stairs and balustrade

Fitting the last balustrade and the spacers either side

The hand rail and capping in place, the last balustrade
about to go in

Chris, Ade and Brett hard at work?

The assembled, wedge and glued stairs,
(laid on their wall string side)

First 3 assembled steps and newel post

Centre steps wedged and glued then riser screwed
to the back of the step

Dry run of 4 steps and 3 risers,
from back

From front, laid on the outer string

Dry assembly of two lower steps
and risers

from front

Newel routed for the lower step and riser

String fitted to Newel

String tenon and mortise in Newel

Newel post with housing for string mortise

Mortise, cut with a mortiser

Routing out the stair strings

The jig for the stair strings,
set up to make the first cut

Door frame with Scarfe repairs.

Scarfe glued in place & planed back

Scarfe cut and fitted

Cleaned up

Old mortise repair

The 3 repairs before planing down

Old hinge repair removed,
cleaned up & scarfe cut to fit.

This repair was planed with
the rebate plane to get up
against the rebate edge

The old door frame and it's repairs

Joist Flooring, hung on joist hangers

Joists nailed in place, to the joist hanger

Chris inserting the joists into the joist hangers

Pole plate level and screwed to the wall

The joist hangers nailed on pole plate

The back of the joist hangers

Small return section of joist hangers
on the pole plate

Upright secured in place, and the double pole
plate is laid at the bottom of the corner

Cleared Unit

Removing the old flooring and joists

Some of the removed kitchen units

Before I started

Kitchen Worktops (I worked with Chris Townsend on this)

Worktop in place. (We cut them over long,
because they will be re-cut by future students).

Two tops brought together and secured
with dog bone fixings, on the underside.

The two halves lined up before joining

(close up) Dog bone cut with
router using the jig

Jig set up

Worktop before setting up the jig and routing 2nd half

First edge cut

Chris ready to start routing out the
first cut on our worktop

Wall units

All the units fitted

Cornice and pelmit fitted

Both wall cabinets mounted, level &
attached to the corner post

The large wall cabinet I hung on the
wall brackets but the smaller
the attached fittings were broken
so I used a split batten instead.

Base units

Plinth cut and scribed to fit under the the units, then attached to the unit legs.
Doors added, due to the limited number of fittings, I only did a few.