Wednesday, 23 May 2012

plumbing

to begin this task the teacher showed as a fixed waste pipe fixed to a sink and sent us away, he then began taking parts off and then we would had to fix the problems that he did,
but firstly i began by putting on my PPE boot and goggles didn't need gloves for this task as its plastic and water.
after about 10mins we was sent back to the area to fix the problem from the start we knew what to do but we had a few problems, the rubber seal that was suppose to go onto the waste pipe didn't fit and we just left it and didn't know that later on it would leak.
most of the problems we noticed straight away "the rubber seal have been taken out" and pipes have been changed to be not level
we finished this task within a few minutes but we wasn't given any water to test to see if any leaks would occur like the other gruops that went before us.

shelf and coat hook

I began by putting on my PPE steel toe capped boots gloves to protect my feet if the shelf of hooks fall off the wall or from any other falling objects.
gloves from splinters from the wood for the shelf
goggles from dust when cutting the shelf to size
i then started by getting the wood that is need for the task and cutting down them to the size that is needed.
i then started marking out the size of the shelf and marking them onto the bay were a spit and screw is needed, i then began screwing in the spit with a screwdriver not using a cordless cause it can cause cracking of the plaster
i then started screwing the brackets into the splits "we use spits to give strength on plasterboard to get a better grip"
and screwed in the mdf with the brackets and made sure it was level.
i then began on the coat hook did the same thing screws the mdf into the spits and screwed the hooks onto the mdf.