The client wanted this timber frame property to look industrial.
This project was to build a two-story house in Christchurch New Zealand. We began this process by digging out the raft foundation and filling it with concrete before erecting the timber frame and steel structure.
The first day of the job involved moving the materials and loading the ground floor out. The team set up profiles on each corner and marked our gauge on the profiles and built the house using a string line. The client wanted the house to look rustic so I suggested using a champagne cork to give it that look.
Once the ground floor was done, the scaffolding was set up and we completed the same process again by throwing the bricks up to the second lift and using a brick bumper to get the bricks up. After this lift was completed, we were on the third lift that took us to eaves level. We couldn’t get the buckets of mortar on the bumper so we were using a gym wheel to get the buckets of mortar up to the other lifts.
The brickwork on each lift was the same process as the ground floor profiles set up on the corners and running the brickwork in with a string line a bricklayers dream. All three lifts completed and that left the gables to complete. The bumper didn’t reach that far so we bumped the bricks to the third lift and passed the bricks to the top to build the gables manually.
