Noggins

In general building terms, noggins are the things that go between the beams & uprights of a timber framed house to fill it in. In Bedfordshire - and other parts of the country this used to be brick and you can still see some lovely houses built this way.
For us these days, it means hundreds of pieces of timber that we put between the beams & uprights. Some of them are to enable pipes or cables to be run through them (1,680 metres of cabling so far & still counting) some will be to take the weight of things like cupboards.
At the moment we are concerned with the ones that we hang the Fermacell boards from.

Most of them are cut to the exact size to fit between the uprights, but some have to be cut especially which is my job (see "carpenter's apprentice"). They then have to have holes drilled in them to take screws - also my job, this is one in the jig ready for drilling:

And here are some that Keith has put on the ceiling:

Now the Fermacell board is lifted up to the ceiling:

And Keith uses his auto feed screwdriver to fix the board into position:

The boards have to have adhesive between them, so my next job is to scrape off the adhesive, check the screws. ensure the join is smooth and then use filler in all the screw indents.

3 rooms done so far: next week's job is to board the stairwell before the stairs arrive.

I would also like to add a note that none of the tools fit into a woman's hand easily. Makita just e-mailed me about their hand-held power drill that they have coloured pink for breast cancer awareness month. Good for them for donating £5 to breast cancer charities for every one sold, but I would be so impressed if they brought out a drill that I could hold in one hand.
One of the local stores is astonished at the number of "gardening" gloves I am buying - that is because all the builders' gloves are too big!