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Research and present construction methods used by different cultures and relate to your sleep out.


Types of Fale's in Samoa.

• Fale Tele (big house)
• Faleo'o (small house)
• Tunoa (cook house)

                                                  The faleo'o, similar to the sleep-out.

Like the Sleep-out the faleo'o wasn't the flashes house in Samoa and was always located in the back of the main house, like most sleep out in New Zealand. Now days, the term Faleo'o is mostly refer to as any small house in Samoa.

A Faleo'o may sometimes be the same in size with a Sleep-out but in many cases, a faleo'o is built in a diffrent ways from a sleep-out. For example diffrent types of timber used, shape and the list goes on. Even thoe the faleo'o and the sleep-out is built in difrent ways, they are used in a similar ways. They can often be a extra sleeping space.

Timber:

              Most of the timber is grown in forests on family land. The timber was cut in the forest and carried to the building site in the village. The heavy work involved the builder's assistants, members of the family and help from the village community.
The main posts were from the Bread Tree (ulu) and if this wood wasn't available ifi lele or pou muli. The long principal rafters had to be flexible and coconut wood (niu) was always selected. The breadfruit tree was also used for other parts of the main framework.

In general, the timbers most frequently used in the construction of Samoan houses are:-
Posts (poutu & poulalo): ifi lele, pou muli, asi, ulu, talia, launini'u, aloalovao.
Fau: ulu, fau, niu, "uagani"
Aso and paeso: niuvao, ulu, matomo, olomea.
The auau and talitali use ulu and the so'a' used both ulu and niu.

Flooring:

           

               The natural foundations of a fale site are coral, sand, lava with sometimes a few inches of earth in some localities. Drainage is therefore good. The top layers of the flooring are smooth pebbles and stones. When occupied, the house floors are usually covered or partially covered with native mats.

In modern times, concrete and cement is used for flooring.

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10/05/2011

8.45am I arrive to school exspecting to be in the computer room, but to find our class out allready working on our sleep out.

We start the day of working on cutting and fixing our Out-rigs. We had allready cut out six Out-rigs from the day befor, so it was just a matter of nailing them down and cutting out the last one. But we had a major problem with four of our Out-rigs. All four for the other side were cut to short at 545m, where they were supose to be cut at 590m. This was a major set-back because we had allready nailed three of the four Out-rigs down.

To fix the problem, we had to cut out the beamers sitting on top of our rafters. to do this we needed to cut the beamer from the middle point of the first rafter that was nailed onto. We could not take out our Out-rigs with-out doing this! So after cutting through our bottom three beamers, we then hammered it down.

With a whole days work gone wrong, we decided that we fix the problem and try and catch up to our other class mates working on the other sleep out. Given that we just had a new tutor name Kevin, we were on our own, as he was just getting used to things.

With the day coming to an end, we quickly fixed up our Out-rigs witch we had to take down, and naild one side down and with no time do the other side we were left to nail them in the next day.

Assignment 2 (Timber Treatment & Seasoning)

TIMBER

Timber is wood in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production. (The distinction between the two terms is discussed below.)

Timber is supplied either rough or finished. Besides pulpwood, rough Timber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods. Finished Timber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry, primarily softwood from coniferous species including pine, fir and kwila  but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring.

TYPES OF TIMBER USED IN CONSTRUCTION

Types of timber for framing were once native timbers such as Rimu. The type mainly used for framing in NZ now is Radiata Pine.and also a small but significant number of Douglas fir and Macrocarpa is used.Their are also other types of timber available for interior finishing and flooring such as Radiata Pine, Rimu, Fijian Kauri, Oak and eucalypt species. Some imported timber can also be used externally like Kwila, Balau, Radiata Pine and Macrocarpa.

Fijian, Kauri, Radiata, Pine, Rimu, Douglas Fir

TIMBER TREATMENT

Timber treatment plays a critical part in the building industry, the atmosphere affects timber and also different insects that eat their way into wood. For timber framed buildings, huge numbers of timber used should be treated to protect it from insects and moisture. Timber treatment depends on the level of risk moisture has on it and where abouts its placed in the building frame. Timber may be treated with a preservative that protects it from being destroyed by insects, fungus or exposure to moisture. Generally this is applied through combined vacuum and pressure treatment. The preservatives used to pressure-treat timber are classified as pesticides. Due to potential hazards to humans and the environment, some are being phased out. Many newer preservatives are free of metallic compounds altogether, and are instead based on biodegradable organic chemistry. Treating timber provides long-term resistance to organisms that cause deterioration. If preservatives are applied correctly, they extend the productive life of timber by five to ten times. If left untreated, wood that is exposed to moisture or soil for sustained periods of time will become weakened by various types of fungi, bacteria or insects.

JOINTS

                                                           JOINT EXERCISE

Our first project for the year we were given a sheet with four diffrent joints that we had to cut out and make an replica off. We had to pick out a a timber at the length of 580mm and width 75mm. Scale of 1:25 and for the Dovetail Bevel were given 6mm down and 1mm in. I started off real good feeling confident about the exercise given to us. Along the way i had little hick-ups and bumps but overall i think i did an awsome job! So Randal(our tutor) says.

           Four Diffirent Types of Joints:

   

                1. Corner Halving

                2. Stopped the Halving 

                3. Single Dovetailed Halving

                4. Dovetailed Halving

Corner Halving                                                             

                                        Here we have some exsamples of the kind of joints we did.

                                We have the top one witch is call Corner Halving and at the

                                    bottom we have the dificault one of all the Dovetailed Halving!

                                                                                   Dovetailed Halving

Because the ratio of 6mm by 1mm was to small for our Dove Tailed joints,

                      we were made to make the ratio of 6:1 to 60:10 to make and accurate 
                      measurement on our dovetailed joints.

For our joints we used a chisle,hammer, hand saw, 

square ruler, even some that i had never seen befor 

such as the Ruler that extends out to 1meter.

                  

Along the way i had little issues here and there, some big some minnor but with a little help from our tutor i was ok again. With my Corner Halving joint, i cut passed on one of the lines that i had crossed out. With a little common-sense i measured my next line on the long piece of wood just above the half way line i had measured out. From this mistake of mines, i learnt a valuable lesson, witch was to always cut out one piece a time and to always double check. Besides my first major mess up with my corner halving joint, i had other minnor problems with my other joints, such as chiped edges, short sided and gaps between joints.

FRAMING

FRAMING

                Key words:         Foundation
                                           Reinforcing Steel
                                           Concrete
                                           Bracing

Wednesday 23, 2011.
                                  We start the day off with FRAMING! Considerring what happened to Christchurch, we were given the the task to come up with lagit ways for Cantebrians to strengthen thier walls to stand up to earthquakes. In the photo above you see a simple frame, we were given a similar picture and were told to add things that could strengthen this frame to widstand an earthquake. After an hour of brainstorming and talking the boys were able to come up with some good ideas and lagit anwers to the problem. We had all sorts of ideas from nog's to sheet bracing and a 45 angle bracing. After adding all the extra bits and pieces to the given drawing, we were able to come up with a good strong frame.




On Monday 28, we learnt more about framing later on the day. We got showen another way of framing. we were showen a stronger frame witch required more wood to be built. There were bottom plate, top plate, stud, under stud, jack stud, packers, lintel, sil trimer, rafter, and jack rafter. Something similar to the photo you see in the bottom.

Reflection

February 21st 2011 and it was my first year at Tertiary study at Manukau Institute of Technology. I arrive at 7.50, ten minutes early. An hour pass I am still waiting for our tutors and the rest of our class to show up.  We were finally greeted and being put into classes. I got a tutor name Randal Brown, whom seemed like a nice bloke with skin bold. We then moved into a work-shop where we mixed and mingled with our class mates. 




A couple of minutes later we had the Health, Safety and Enviroment Manager come in and drill(as Randal would say) into our heads the importants of Health and Safety. we also had the MIT Saqurity Manager give us Rules and Regulations on parking spaces in and around Manukau Institute of Technology.  After an hour break we walked around North and South Campus checking the diffrent buildings and course departments. To finish of the day we had a little fun and games out in the sun playing Thor and a Measurement game.


Oh did i mention that the tutors are kick back? Well yeah, our tutor and so is all the tutors are the most kick back people i've met. My class mates were allright! Made a couple of friends on my first day. Overall i thought my first day went well. 




February 22 2011, secound day today and I arrive to class bang on time. Brand new day and i was excited for Uni. We start our long day off with little paper work, just ticking off an industrial check list and going over what we learnt the day before. Boring! Our tutor being cool as he is decides to entertain us with a couple of funny youtube videos. Hilarious staff! 


10am Break time!


10.15am we enter the Computer Lap over at the Business Department, and im still excited to be at  Uni today. We got given our user-names and passwords to log into the computers and we were off setting our new passwords. My computer was slow and being an inpatient person i am, i got a little ticked off! I turned to the back of me to find that one of the student could not log on which put me to ease again. Away i went again, head down following the instructions given to us by Nick. Oh Nick is another tutor at the Carpentry department, a very funny Indian sr. Hes giving us instructions from left to right running around helping other students, and i was in my own little corner struggling to follow his instructions, my computer was not helping at all. I finally manage to find the site and i started on the my BLOG, and here i am writing. 

Lupe