Roof Cladding Fixing Details

Cutting sheets and flashings.

Roof cladding fixing details. As with all of the fixing screws provided you can use a colour cap to hide the stainless steel head. Corrugated roofing sheets should be installed into the corrugated sheets crown using a 65mm tek screw with baz washer. This will keep weather out prevent lifting in high winds and provide a neat fin ished appearance. At the gable edge use a gable or sidewall flashing.

Fasteners in joints of simple seams flat sheet steel joints should generally be no further apart than 50mm. Spacing of the fixing will depend upon the type of joint to be sealed. Supporting your roof sheets. Filling gaps at eaves and ridge.

Side lap joints can be spaced further apart. The general advice for fixing is 4 5 screws across the sheets purlin we advise using 1 screw on the overlap of the next sheet. Fixing and securing sheets. All the information contained in our help guides are for reference only.

To provide a drip edge allow an overhang of 1 to 2 inches at the eave. Fasteners in joints with profiled roofing e g. In accordance with manufacturer specification all roof cladding needs to be pitched flashed and finished to increase weathertightness building basics for making homes weathertight search.