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Schedule for Building Your Elevated Octagon or Eco Octagon

 

For Building Your Single Storey Octagon or Eco Octagon With Adjustable Steel Piers and Sub Floor
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This information is to give a quick idea for the schedule of construction.
Your Construction Manual will be very detailed.

 

01		Setting out the profiles and string lines for the building. You may wish a Surveyor to mark the four corner points if you have a difficult block or are close to a boundary.
02		Concrete slab and footings. This could be completed by a concreter or you could form your footings and slab and hire a concreter to pour and finish.
03		Block-layer to lay concrete blocks. Openings are left and windows are installed later.
04		Fill blocks when complete with concrete block-fill.   All the above work could be done before the Kit is delivered.
05		Stand and fix bottom pre-assembled wall frames to concrete slab and block-work.
06		Fix wall plates to top of block-work and install centre floor joist.
07		Stand carport beams and install side floor joist.
08		Cut and fix perimeter beams and complete floor joist.
09		Glue and fix floor sheets.
10		Stand columns and beams and complete all decks. (Decks are completed at this stage for convenience, safety and to cut down on the amount of scaffolding that will be required).
11		Stand and fix pre-assembled wall frames. Complete loft floor. (Loft floor is completed to make it easy to install the eight corner beams). Install the eight corner beams.
12		Scaffold to fascia height and fix rafters and roof battens.
13		Install fascia, gutter, insulation and roof sheets.
14		Fix pre-cut loft ply walls, rafter beams, ceiling ply, wall wrap, insulation and roof sheets.
15		Fix ridge capping above corner beams and roof ventilator. (Roof is now waterproof).
16		Fix ply brace board sheets to all external walls and wrap with wall wrap.
17		Install aluminium windows and sliding doors on 1 st floor and ground floor.
18		Cut and fix your choice of wall cladding and complete eave linings.
19		Complete deck roof posts, beams, rafters, battens, gutter, insulation and roof sheets.
20		Complete all internal division walls and build in bath.

 

Your home is now at lock-up stage. Leave the deck rail until after the internal linings (gyprock/villaboard) have been delivered and placed inside the home.

 

After Lock-Up Stage

 

01		Plumbing and Electrical rough-in, phone, TV etc.
02		Insulation wall batts and ceiling batts installed.
03		Internal lining completed.(gryprock and villaboard).
04		Wet area waterproofing completed. (bath rooms, en-suite, laundry).
05		Install internal stairs and attic ladder to loft.
06		Carpentry fix-out (jambs, doors locks, architraves, skirtings and wardrobes etc).
07		Kitchen cupboards installed and fit vanities. (flat-pack kitchens are economical).
08		Wall and floor tiling completed and shower screens and mirrors installed.
09		Plumbing and Electrical fit off (completion).
10		Painting.
11		Driveways

 

 

Building Your Single Storey Octagon or Eco Octagon With Adjustable Steel Piers and Sub Floor.

 

This information is to give a quick idea for the schedule of construction for your adjustable gal piers and sub-floor. Your Construction Manual will be a lot more detailed.

 

01		Setting out the profiles and string lines for the building. (You may wish a Surveyor to mark the four corner points if you have a difficult block or are close to a boundary).
02		A screw together frame which is the exact external size of the building is supplied. The frame is screwed together and fixed in place with steel rods using the string line set out.
03		The frame is notched out to give position for the external adjustable steel piers. Mark external pier holes with marking paint and internal pier holes as your Construction Manual. Remove string lines and perimeter frame by unscrewing and lifting off steel rods. Leave steel rods in place.
04		Use a 450mm hole digger to dig holes to the required depth. Pour 150 to 200mm of base concrete into each hole and allow concrete to set. Be careful not to disturb the steel rods.
05		Replace perimeter frame on to steel rods and screw together. Cut steel piers to length and fix base plates to piers.Using the frame notches and string lines plumb the piers in place and fix base plates with short dynabolts into concrete.
06		Fix adjustable pier tops to piers and install gal steel bearers as your Construction Manual. When complete make sure bearers are straight and finish pouring pier holes slightly above ground level.
07		Install gal steel joist as you Construction Manual.
08		Glue and fix sheet flooring as your Construction Manual.
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