Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare.
- Work instructions and operational details are obtained using relevant information, confirmed and applied for planning and preparation purposes.
- Safety (OHS) requirements are followed in accordance with safety plans and policies.
- Signage and barricade requirements are identified and implemented.
- Tools and equipment selected to carry out tasks are consistent with job requirements, checked for serviceability and any faults are rectified or reported prior to commencement.
- Material quantity requirements are calculated in accordance with plans, specifications and quality requirements.
- Materials appropriate to the work application are identified, obtained, prepared, safely handled and located ready for use.
- Environmental requirements are identified for the project in accordance with environmental plans and statutory and regulatory authority requirements, and are applied.
- Construct footings and prepare monument stones.
- Monument footings are set out and excavated to dimensions from drawings and specifications.
- Reinforcement is placed, formwork fixed and concrete poured to provide footings to specifications.
- Delivered stone is checked for conformity to size, design and specifications.
- Layout is set out on footings to dimensions of design and appropriate lifting equipment is installed and tested or made ready to OHS regulations and job requirements, where applicable.
- Set up side stones into place.
- Side stones are stood up into position on packing of cement sheet or stone pieces with packing adjusted to provide slight fall towards front stone.
- Side stones are checked for plumb and packing is adjusted where required.
- Measurement for diagonals and parallel are checked to be true and stones are checked for alignment by levelling at both front and back ends of side stones.
- Prepare dowel joints.
- Stand up front and back stones.
- Mortar is mixed to specification and inserted into side stone holes and designated dowels are inserted into mortared holes to full depth.
- Back stone is positioned on timber packing ready for lifting into place.
- Timber pieces are placed against side stones to avoid chipping in lifting.
- Mortar is placed to fill holes, back stone is raised into position and manoeuvred into close joints, and packing is adjusted to ensure back stone level.
- Front stone is located, raised and manoeuvred into position to finish with joints to specifications and level.
- Grout base and joints.
- Fix headstone to backstone.
- Fill centre and finish with chip top.
- Fit cover stone and finish monument.
- Dowels for joints, where applicable, are measured and cut to specifications.
- Centre area is filled to specifications, dowel holes are filled with mortar and dowels are placed fully into position.
- Cover stone is shifted into place and rested upon timber packing pieces and lowered into place using wedges to finish in position.
- Pointing/grouting material is prepared and applied to joints, finishing to specification.
- Clean up.