Chapter 141 Install wooden windows and build gables
Han Cheng was directing people to install windows.
Nowadays, there are no such things as electric hammers and expansion screws. If you want the doors and windows to be strong, you need to install the doors and windows when building a house.
The bottom of the window is not high, only one meter and two meters from the ground. This is the size Han Cheng chose after some thought and comparison. After all, people in the Qingque tribe are generally relatively low, so the window does not need to be too high.
After the front wall reached a height of 1.2 meters, it stopped first.
Wait until the two windows are finished before continuing.
It is said that installing windows is actually easy.
Lai and another person placed the somewhat loose window on the front wall that had been covered with wooden rafts. Han Cheng looked at Wai Zheng from a distance, and then gave an order.
After digging down the mud, I pressed down both ends of the wooden frame that was deliberately left long under the window.
After the wooden window was fixed, pockets of wet soil began to pour into the middle of the wooden rafts. As the amount of soil increased and the loose soil was compacted, the wooden window was firmly built into the wall.
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Another thing to note is that because the tools are inconvenient, there are no wooden frames on the left and right sides of the finished window. In order to prevent the soil from squeezing in and blocking the window when the walls on both sides of the window are tamped, it is necessary to stick wooden frames on the left and right sides in advance.
Several pieces of wooden pillars split in half were placed vertically on the windows.
The round side faces the mud wall, and the flat side faces inside the window.
In this way, it can not only prevent the soil from coming in, but also increase the appearance, making the wooden windows look like they are missing all four borders.
The same goes for doors, which need to be prepared in advance. However, do not install the door leaf at this time. Just build the door frame and the wall together. The door leaf and the door frame are not very connected. You will not make it until the house is built. It is not too late to install the door leaf.
After the foundation and the one-meter-high stone wall below were completed, the simple rammed earth wall was completed very quickly. Within a few days, it was "level stacked."
The so-called flat stack means that the wall has reached a predetermined height.
The wall is not too high, only two meters high. Han Cheng did not build a blue brick house with large tiles. This height is quite adequate.
Although the house manufactured this time is very different from the deer pen, there are still many similarities.
Senior Brother and the others looked at the deer pen, and then at the house, and felt that the next step for the Son of God was to further heighten the front wall, and then use wooden beams, rafters, and fences to build the back like the deer pen.
The pitched roof comes out.
As the great son of God of the Qingque Tribe who does not believe in God, how could Han Cheng let them guess his tricks?
Instead of asking people to continue to raise the front wall, he raised the 'gables' on both sides.
The main reason why the side wall is called a gable is that it has a triangle on it, which looks more like an abstract mountain.
In this process, the tape measure and ruler that Han Cheng had made before came in handy.
After all, four "house mountains" need to be built in a row. It would be a bit troublesome to build them to the same height without a ruler.
After Han Cheng said what was going to happen next, those in the Qingque tribe who had guessed in advance once again felt the wisdom and inscrutability of the Son of God.
Then under the guidance of the Son of God, we began to build the ‘house mountain’
Compared with the straight wall, the triangular "house mountain" is more difficult to make, but it is not insurmountable. Under the command of Han Cheng and the hard work of the senior brother and others, the four walls are of the same height and roughly the same shape.
Similar 'house mountains' gradually emerged.
It is said to be a triangle, but in fact this triangle is not quite complete. The main thing is that there are two small platforms 30 centimeters long on the two upper sides.
These two small platforms evenly divide the sides into three sections.
Except for this small platform, the top of the triangle is also flat, and it is also a small platform of 30 centimeters.
Of course, these small platforms are not deliberately designed to ruin the beauty of the "house mountain", but are used to prepare for the next step and are used to place wooden beams.
The people of the Qingque tribe are currently installing wooden beams on the roof. The wooden beams were burned and then slightly repaired using stone axes and stone knives.
Except for the beam on the roof ridge, which is very demanding and must be straight, the rest of the beams can be curved, which reduces a lot of difficulty.
"One or two!"
"One or two!"
The senior brother shouted the chant he learned from the Son of God, stood on the shelf, and pulled the rope in his hand with the third senior brother.
The other end of the rope is tied to the bottom of a beam.
The beams are erected on the west wall and rest on the shelves beside the west wall.
As the three senior brothers exerted their strength, the end of the beam that was against the ground began to lift off the ground. Shang, who was on the shelf on the inside of the west wall, used his hands to hold the wooden beam leaning against the shelf to prevent it from tipping over.
Because the wooden beam is set up on the gable wall, its length is wider than the room. In addition, half-meter-wide shelves are now erected on both sides of the house, which shortens the width of the room even more.
As the senior brothers pulled, the end of the wooden beam gradually rose and became straight, and the end of the wooden beam ran under the shelf. If you don't think of a way, you won't be able to pull it up by deadlifting like this.
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At this time, Shang and another person standing on the other side took action. They held one end of the wooden beam leaning on the shelf and began to pull it towards them. With their movements, the other end of the wooden beam was pulled away from them.
The eldest brother and others came out from under the shelf.
The pulled wooden beams, with the joint efforts of people on both sides, were placed on the small platform set aside in advance on the gable wall.
Because the thickness of the two ends of the wooden beam is not the same, it needs to be adjusted after the wooden beam is erected, and some small stones and pottery shards should be placed under the thin section.
Firstly, it is to adjust the height and make the wooden beams flat, and secondly, it can increase the firmness.
Because the beams are too long to go up, and long enough ones are hard to find, so these wooden beams are cut off. A total of fifteen are needed for the three houses.
In addition to the platforms on the two most eastern and western walls, two wooden beams need to be erected on the platforms on the two gable walls in the middle.
In order to prevent the wooden beam on the side from falling off the platform, they need to be firmly tied together with ropes.
Another thing that needs attention is that the wooden beams on the east and west exterior walls are not directly aligned with the outside of the exterior wall, but are moved ten centimeters inward.
After the house is built, cover the empty hole with mud so that the wooden beams will no longer be visible from the outside. This will protect the wooden beams from wind and sun and prevent them from rotting and growing mushrooms.
After the wooden beams are built, just like when building a deer enclosure, the next step is to tie rafters to them and then lay the fence.
Zhazi's work is not being done by Lame, who is almost overwhelmed, but by two women from the tribe who are not too strong.
Fortunately, the fence is not too complicated. They had seen Lame make it before, and now they have learned how to do it with Lame's step-by-step instruction, so the fence they made is not bad.
