♪ (Music Playing) ♪ I started my apprenticeship in ’97 straight out of school as an apprentice carpenter. One of the best decisions I’ve made in my career, because it’s given me the opportunity to carry on now and get my builder’s licence and keep working now, you know. It gave me an outlet during…
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Reinforcement for Simple Slabs — Area
Today, we’re back out on the footpath job and in the previous video we went through and I showed you how to work out how much Formwork you’re gonna need for the job So today this video is going to concentrate on doing the area calculations to work out how much Reinforcing mesh we need…
Stepped Strip footing
G’day, welcome back to Buildsum and in this video. I want to show you another way of working with a sloping block of land But this time instead of leveling the block We’re going to step the footing so Here’s an idea of the footing going to end up with typical strip footing around the…
The Clothesline Footpath – Perimeter
G’Day and welcome back to Buildsum And what I’m going to do in this series of three videos. I’m going to look at working out the area perimeter and volume Associated with this job. So I’ve got this job which is footpath coming out off the house and It’s not a straightforward footpath. It’s got…
Concrete for Simple Slabs – Volume
So we’re back out on the footpath job and in the two previous videos on this job we discussed how to work out the formwork to go around the job and the pegs that we need we also looked at the reinforcement that we needed to reinforce the concrete and in this job this video…
Skew Gable Members and Bevel Positions
For those of you that have already watched one of my oblique hipped roof videos You would have already seen this plate layer and as you can see we have a unusual situation where we have a couple of corners that aren’t at 90 degrees so the oblique hip was one way that we can…
Wall Frame Components and Construction Sequence
So in this video what I want to show you is the names of all the members that make up a wall frame and In the process a or my preferred construction sequence More than now the way I go about putting it together, so this is our completed wall frame I’ve chosen this one…
Section Through a Double Brick Building Part 1
G’day and welcome back to Buildsum and today I want to show you a Double Brick construction building with a timber floor so As you can see we’re starting starting out very similar to the other Videos that have done on these construction methods however for the Observant among you you’ll notice that this footing…
Marking Out Wall Plates
So this time what I want to show you is how we go about Positioning our wall plates and then marking them out, so we’re ready to construct our walls So in this example. I’m going to use a slab But it could as easily be a bearers and joist floor that, we’re working on…
Tom – Enrolled in Building and Construction Pre apprenticeship
[MUSIC]>>INTERVIEWER: Hi, Tom, how are you going? >>TOM: I’m good, how are you?>>Good, thanks. Can you tell me what course or qualification you’re doing here at Melbourne Polytechnic?>>I’m doing building and construction Cert II.>>Mm-hm. Pre-apprenticeship? >>Yeah, pre-apprenticeship.>>Excellent. And what was the reason behind you starting a pre-apprenticeship?>>Um, I figured out that it’s the industry I…