CPCCCA3008

CONSTRUCT EAVES
 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Section 1 – Plan and prepare

1.2 Plan all work to comply with laws

and regulations, the National
Construction Code (NCC), Australian
1.1 Read and interpret work Standards, work health and safety 1.3 Select tools and equipment,
instructions and plan sequence of (WHS) and environmental check for serviceability and report
work. requirements, manufacturers’ any faults.
specifications, workplace
requirements, drawings and
specifications.

1.5 Inspect work site, locate 1.6 Select materials required for
1.4 Select and use personal
services, assess hazards and apply task, calculate quantities, handle
protective equipment (PPE) as
risk controls, including required safely and prepare and position
required for each stage of the task.
signage and barricades. ready for use.
Read and interpret work instructions and plan sequence of work

Obtain work Confirm and apply

instructions and information to plan and
operational details prepare for the job task

Workplaces have
All tasks will have
guidelines, directions
different specifications
and specifications for
or standards depending
activities which are
on the individual
used to make sure the
component tasks and
activity is completed to
activities that are
the most appropriate
undertaken.
standards for the task.
Plan all work to comply with laws and regulations, the National
Construction Code (NCC), Australian Standards, work health and
safety (WHS) and environmental requirements, manufacturers’
specifications, workplace requirements, drawings and
specifications

Always follow OHS procedures within your worksite that your organisation have
put in place.

Communicate with, and supervise employees/co-workers to ensure the control

measures are used correctly.

Maintain control measures to ensure ongoing effectiveness.

Codes of practice are used in conjunction with the OH&S/WH&S act and
regulations.

Always check that control measures have been implemented. Ensuring that they
have eliminated or reduced any risks and haven't created any new hazards.
 Make sure you check
Environmental
with your supervisor
regulations provide a
about what
guideline on what
environmental issues
you can or can’t use
Identify need to be managed
Must follow e.g. the way in
environmental during your work. All
environmental plans which waste should
requirements for the environmental
and regulations be disposed of in
job task details should be
order to avoid the
listed in an
adverse effects that
‘Environmental
waste can have on
Management Plan’
the environment.
for the site.
Select tools and equipment, check for serviceability and report any
faults

Select plant, tools and equipment Rectify or report faults as per

required to carry out the task workplace procedures

Check plant, tools and equipment

for serviceability
Types of tools and equipment can include:

Air compressors and

Bevels Chisels Hammers Hand saws
hoses

Measuring tapes and

Marking equipment Nail bags Nail guns Power drills
rules

Power saws and

Protractors Saw stools Scaffolding Spirit levels
power leads

Squares Steel squares and

Stair clips and tables String lines
(combination/tri) fence
 Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE) as required for
each stage of the task.

Employees must be instructed in how to

When hazards in the workplace can't be
eliminated or reduced by other risk
controls, employers must provide personal
protective equipment and clothing (PPE).
use PPE and clothing provided by the
employer. They should be told why the
use of PPE is necessary before they start
the particular job for which it has been
provided.

PPE should only be used:

for situations where

while other controls are for emergencies and
when no other control other control methods
being installed or during maintenance
method is possible; don't provide enough
implemented; activities;
protection
PPE refers to anything used or worn to minimise risk to workers' health and safety. This may
include, but is not limited to:

boots ear plugs face masks gloves

goggles hard hats high visibility clothing respirators

safety harnesses safety shoes sunscreen

 Inspect work site, locate services, assess hazards and apply risk
controls, including required signage and barricades

Signage maximises the

Identify required communication of the
signage and Barricades isolate risk or hazard including Signage provides
barricades, and hazards in the work the likelihood of its information on how to
implement on the work area occurrences and avoid hazards and risks
site reductions in severity
of injury
Select materials required for task, calculate quantities, handle
safely and prepare and position ready for use

Calculate material quantity

requirements for the job
task

The easiest way to order Material quantities must

is to sketch up the area be calculated in
to be lined and then accordance with plans,
write in the sheet sizes specifications and quality
to suit. requirements

Calculate the quantities

Some areas, such as of eaves sheets required
entrances to houses, by working out the
require larger sheets, length of the eaves to be
and these can be covered in the particular
ordered to suit. width and then order
that quantity of sheets.
 • Identified
• Obtained
• Prepared
• Safely handled
• Located ready for use
Materials appropriate to the work
application including required fire
resistance rating, must be:
Types of materials can include:

Beads Fibre cement sheeting Joining mould Metal

Reconstituted timber
Plaster Quads Timber
products

Timber battens Timber lining boards

 LET’S DISCUSS

PRACTICES LEARNING

Refer to Let’s Discuss/Let’s Try practice section 1 of your Learning

Guide - activity workbook
 LET’S WATCH
As a group discuss the following questions

1. Discuss how to read and interpret work instructions and plan sequence of work.
2. Discuss how to plan all work to comply with laws and regulations, the National
Construction Code (NCC), Australian Standards, work health and safety (WHS) and
environmental requirements, manufacturers’ specifications, workplace
requirements, drawings and specifications.
3. Discuss how to select tools and equipment, check for serviceability and report
any faults.
4. Discuss how to select and use personal protective equipment (PPE) as required
for each stage of the task.
5. Discuss how to inspect work site, locate services, assess hazards and apply risk
controls, including required signage and barricades.
6. Discuss how to select materials required for task, calculate quantities, handle
safely and prepare and position ready for use.
 LET’S WATCH
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 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Section 2 – Construct framework for eaves or soffits

2.1 Determine eaves design from drawings 2.2 Set out, mark and cut timber and steel
and specifications and set out and fix framework members to lengths for
framework. framework structure.

2.3 Construct boxed eaves with soffit

bearers and fix to line and level to wall
2.4 Set-out and install eave supports.
frame or support by hangers from
rafters/trusses.
Determine eaves design from drawings and specifications and set
out and fix framework

• Level eaves
The main eaves finish types are: • Raked eaves lined under the rafters on the rafter slope
• Raked eaves lined on top of the rafters on the rafter slope

The choice of eaves finish Raked eaves are normally There is more maintenance on
type will depend on what the associated with older-style a home with exposed rafter
owner wants and the look homes, and sometimes new tails because the weather can
they are trying to achieve. homes must match this style. cause the tails to deteriorate.
Set out, mark and cut timber and steel framework members to
lengths for framework structure

Framing for the support of the lining material involves trimming as efficiently as possible with supports for fixing
the eaves lining.

Determine the preliminary location and extent of bracing and tie-down and then the basic frame layout in
relation to the floor plan and the proposed method of frame construction.

Individual member sizes are determined by selecting the roof framing timbers and then systematically
working through the remainder of the framework to the footings, or by considering the floor framing
through to the roof framing.

Bracing and tie-down requirements should also be considered when determining the basic frame layout to
ensure any necessary or additional framing members are correctly positioned.
Construct boxed eaves with soffit bearers and fix to line and level
to wall frame or support by hangers from rafters/trusses

A boxed gable will Framing consists

be framed up so of vertical studs
The framework This is a fairly
the gable cut to the
for the boxing will common method At a gable end,
cladding fits required lengths,
be suspended off used for treating there will be no
neatly under the with eaves
the verge rafter the gable when eaves overhung
barge board and bearers and
and may be an overhang is unless the gable
the eaves are hangers fitted
cantilevered off desired on the is boxed.
continued around where needed to
the top plate. gable.
the house on the support the soffit
level. sheeting.
Set-out and install eave supports

When trimming on a brick

Masonry-veneer
or masonry-veneer
buildings – 12mm needs
building that has timber
to be provided between
wall frames, there needs to
the soffit bearer and the
be an allowance made for
top of the masonry.
the shrinkage

Timber – the allowance

for shrinkage can be as
With concrete floors and
much as 30mm for a two-
seasoned timber wall
storey building at the
frames, the allowance can
eaves with unseasoned
be 10mm at the eaves.
timber framing for walls
and floors.
 Fix framing to provide
support for the eaves
lining in straight lines and
to be solid enough for
later nailing of the eaves
lining.

The main principal of Power nail guns are well

trimming for sheet suited for eaves trimming
materials is that there because often the light
needs to be support for timbers are springy and
all edges of the sheet the nail guns will shoot
material. and hold the timber well.

If metal framing is being

used, then screws are the
most common fasteners
to use.
 LET’S DISCUSS

PRACTICES LEARNING

Refer to Let’s Discuss/Let’s Try practice section 2 of your Learning

Guide - activity workbook
 LET’S WATCH
As a group discuss the following questions

1. Discuss how to determine eaves design from drawings and specifications and set
out and fix framework.
2. Discuss how to set out, mark and cut timber and steel framework members to
lengths for framework structure.
3. Discuss how to construct boxed eaves with soffit bearers and fix to line and level
to wall frame or support by hangers from rafters/trusses.
4. Discuss how to set-out and install eave supports.
 LET’S WATCH
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 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Section 3 – Line and clad eaves and soffits

3.1 Mark and cut eaves cladding and 3.2 Fit, join and fix eaves lining, cladding
sheeting material to shape to suit task and soffits using methods for type of
application and jointing methods. material and task application.

3.3 Fit and fix mouldings to finish eaves. 3.4 Fit raked eaves to rafters or framing.
Mark and cut eaves cladding and sheeting material to shape to suit
task application and jointing methods

Fibre-cement sheets are usually held in place

with soft sheet nails.

Marking the sheets for fitting requires planning

and care.

Mark the sheet upside down with the sheet

lying on saw stools and boards as near as
possible to its eventual placement position.

Mark the sheet to its eventual placement,

checking your marks again before cutting.

Sheets may require the help of other people to

lift them because they can be brittle, especially
when damp.
Fit, join and fix eaves lining, cladding and soffits using methods for
type of material and task application

Sheets are usually joined using fibro joining strips.

These plastic strips fit into the last installed sheet and have a wide back to assist placement of the
next sheet.

Don’t make the common beginners mistake of putting the wide back into the fitted sheet and then
trying to fit the next sheet into the narrower back.

The last sheet can be fitted by trimming the back off the joining strip, or by bowing the sheet into
the end grooves and then sliding the sheet across into the fascia groove.
 Fit and fix mouldings to finish eaves

Raked eaves on an open

gable – when the barge board
has been attached and the
Finish off the eaves to the walls
The barge – provides a finish groove on the inside bottom of
by fitting a moulding against the
between the roof and the eaves the barge has been fitted under
wall and fixing it up into the
or wall the verge rafter, you need to
eaves trimmers.
ensure that framing is in place to
support the raked eaves lining
material.
 Fit raked eaves to rafters or framing

Finish from underneath

the eaves by placing
Eaves can be lined on the moulding wherever it is
rake either on top of or needed to provide the
under the rafter tails. required finish, and by
providing eaves
ventilation where needed.

The eaves will need to be

lined on the rake under
If lining is to be done on
the rafter tails once the
top of the rafters, then
fascia is completed so
place the lining on the
that the raked eaves
rafters before the roof
sheeting can be inserted
battens are fixed.
into the groove in the
fascia.
 LET’S DISCUSS

PRACTICES LEARNING

Refer to Let’s Discuss/Let’s Try practice section 3 of your Learning

Guide - activity workbook
 LET’S WATCH
As a group discuss the following questions

1. Discuss how to mark and cut eaves cladding and sheeting material to shape to
suit task application and jointing methods.
2. Discuss how to fit, join and fix eaves lining, cladding and soffits using methods
for type of material and task application.
3. Discuss how to fit and fix mouldings to finish eaves.
4. Discuss how to fit raked eaves to rafters or framing.
 LET’S WATCH
Watch the video by clicking on the link below.
 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Section 4 – Clean up

4.1 Clean up, meeting all legislative and

workplace requirements for safety, waste
disposal and materials handling.

4.2 Check, maintain and store tools and

equipment and rectify or report any faults.
Clean up, meeting all legislative and workplace requirements for
safety, waste disposal and materials handling

Any work must be

protected from elements
and other workers with
Material should be signage and barricades
resealed and stored
away according to MSDS
Dispose of, reuse or
recycle materials
according to worksite
Ensure site is cleared of procedures and
debris and excess environmental guidelines
material
Check, maintain and store tools and equipment and rectify or
report any faults

All tools and equipment used on the
job should be:
• Cleaned,
• Checked to ensure they are
functioning properly,
• Maintained, and
• Stored according to
manufacturer
recommendations and work
processes and procedures.

Any faulty or damaged

tools/equipment must be recorded
and reported
 LET’S DISCUSS

PRACTICES LEARNING

Refer to Let’s Discuss/Let’s Try practice section 4 of your Learning

Guide - activity workbook
 LET’S WATCH
As a group discuss the following questions

1. Discuss how to clean up, meeting all legislative and workplace requirements for
safety, waste disposal and materials handling.
2. Discuss how to check, maintain and store tools and equipment and rectify or
report any faults.
 LET’S WATCH
Watch the video by clicking on the link below.
 SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
Self-directed learning checklist –Refer to your Learner Guide – Activity
Workbook
Reading materials and activities and any applicable text book reference or
additional activities as instructed by the trainer.
This time is allocated to reading the learner guide provided and if applicable the
text book chapters as instructed by your trainer.
Self-directed learning is time away from the class room for the learner to revise
and absorb information prior to assessment.
You can take this opportunity for one on one time with the trainer to further
support their studies. By appointment only.
 KNOWLEDGE OVERVIEW

ARE YOU READY TO PRACTICALLY APPLY YOUR

KNOWLEDGE

REFER TO YOUR LEARNER GUIDE -ACTIVITY BOOKLET

ARE YOU READY FOR ASSESSMENT?

Submit your learning record of participation – See your

trainer if you feel you need more time