Jack studs/Bearers

Once we had our sole plates sorted, using the plans we measured out where our jack studs awere going to go.  Again, we used the dumpy to mark out our correct height of the jack studs to allow for the gradient of our building site.  We secured the jack studs with two nails on each side and used the level while securing them to make sure they were plumb.  After that we had to laminate our bearers.  We had different lengths of timber, and had to mark in 30mm on each side of the face of the bearer, and spaced out our marks at 500mm, so we know where to nail them.  When nailing we had to make sure our top side was flush and we used the clamp to hold it and used the set square to make sure it was plumb before nailing on the angle with the 100mm nails. Once we completed our 3 rows of bearers, we all picked them up and lined them up over the bearers.  Rich was calling it telling us to move which end forward so it was in the right place.  We nailed the bearers on an angle to attach them to the jack studs.