21 October 2011

In Extremis: Drawing the Floor Boards

In the original drawing I did before I met up with Richard, I draw the plans to the idea that we were going to order in ply wood and cut it down from pieces of 4'x8'. Richard said that the best thing to use would be rough sawn 6'' x 1/2''. I had to redraw the pieces at 145mm wide, and also considered that the pieces of timber were over three metres long so the calculations had to take that into consideration. 

Another thing I failed to think of on my original drawing is that we need to think of spacing in between the planks, as they cannot lie flush with each other or they will warp and rise. 

Again, the working process is done in the way of a CAD drawing, well annotated to you can see my working process. This is probably the least challenging of all my drawings that I have to do, and it will be the least challenging thing to make!