May 21, 2007, Kaitaia, New Zealand

Jeanne and Carell puttin up triboard.

 

Triboard going up.

 

 

Date:  Monday, May 21, 2007

Kaitaia, New Zealand

Today was a long day working from 8:30AM until about 6:30PM.  We started with the subfloor in place from Saturday and began putting up the tri-board panels.  It’s an interesting type of construction and new to everyone but Joan and I as tri-board was used on the Manukau house last year.  Basically the outside, interior walls, and ceilings are particle board that has about an eighth inch of hard particle surface bonded to it and then primed with paint.  The panels are all very accurately cut and fit very tightly with a plastic spline that fits a routed slot between them on butt joints.  On square right angle joints they are screwed together with polyurethane glue between them.  The panels go up quickly and once complete all that’s required for finishing is to fill any screw holes that show and then paint.

 

At the end of today we had all the walls in place and the ceiling on in essence making a rectangular box with the walls inside.  Tomorrow’s task will be to install the roof trusses on top of the ceiling and put on the purlins.

 

Another good day.