Wednesday 8 February 2012

Plastering

First we had to prepare our area by putting plastic sheeting down on the floor to stop the plaster landing on the floor and drying we also ran a brush over the wall to dust it down.
We then mixed up the plaster by adding watter to the powder and using a wisp to mix it up then itook some plaster over to my wall and just slapped it on using a hawk and trowel. First i put one coat on then let it dry then i put the second coat on to and let that set and then polished it.
PPE
I have to wear goggles to stop any plaster going in my eyes.
I had to wear steel toe capped boots incase any objects fell onto my feet.
I had to wear gloves to stop the plaster going into any cuts and starting an infection.

Stop end brick wall

  1. Set up in rows opposite each other.
  2. Draw out measurements level and pencil.
  3. Load out pug and bricks. Roll pug.
  4. Lay pug out on floor.
  5. Lay 5 bricks.

English bond

The task was to make an english bond.
The PPE we used was steel toe caps incase anything dropped on our feet, safety gloves to stop us cutting our hands and safety goggles to stop things such as pug and chips of bricks getting into our eyes.
The english bond was by far the hardest wall to build because it was hard to keep it level. I had to do the 6 point check on each course as the wall was built up. After we had built the English bond we had to take it down and clear our area and hack off the dry pug off the bricks.