Wedges and offcuts under trusses: the Officer lock-up finding to know
Why packing under trusses and beams matters, and why lock-up is when to catch it.
With walls and trusses standing and before the roof is sarked and the walls wrapped, the structure is fully visible.
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At frame stage in Officer we record bracing straps not hooped over the plate, bottom plates overhanging the slab, missing truss grips and blocking left out of engineered bracing walls. These decide how the house resists wind for the rest of its life.
Annotated findings from Frame inspections.
1Bored piersHoles bored and cleaned, before the pier concrete
2Slab pre-pourFormwork, steel and pods in, the day before concrete4Lock-up (pre-plaster)Roof, windows and cladding on, before plasterboard
5FixingDoors, mouldings and cabinets in, before painting
6WaterproofingOnce the membrane has cured, ahead of tiling
7Pre-handover (PCI)Roughly seven days out from your PC dateWhy packing under trusses and beams matters, and why lock-up is when to catch it.
The pre-pour items that recur on Officer slabs and why each one matters.
The tie-down and bracing details our inspectors look at before wrap goes on.
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Bracing and tie-down. They hold the house together in wind and are covered up at lock-up.
The timber bottom plate sitting past the edge of the slab. Beyond 10mm the wall is not properly supported.
Yes. Bracing walls, tie-down and any steel are compared with the engineering and the bracing plan.
Where a physical barrier is meant to sit under the external walls, we note whether it is there.
About an hour for a single storey home, longer for a double storey.
We check what remains visible and say in the report what could not be seen.