Roof Sheet Fixing

The main fixings are used to transfer all the loads acting on the cladding back to the supporting structure and to form a watertight seal.

Roof sheet fixing.

You will have to paint the roof but is cheaper than buying new roofing. Eight foot 1 2 inch thick plywood is standard sheathing material. Fixing and securing sheets. After cleaning the debris and reframing the roof lay down a base sheathing.

These should be long enough to get a secure fixing into your purlins. Up signs indicate the direction of the ridge to lay the sheets correctly. Roof fixings are required to piece together and add the finishing touches to your roofing project. Stagger the sheathing in a brick pattern for extra strength.

Measure the opening of the section of roof to be shingled cut the plywood to size and nail to roof rafters. 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. If fixing screws are left in the valleys your roof will leak in hundreds of places. What was previously a valley in the corrugations will now be a ridge and the nail hole will be in the correct place.

Lay sheets in the opposite direction to the prevailing winds. Whether it s a corrugated roof made from bitumen or a flat sheet roof made from plastic our fixings are compatible with many types of roof sheet. We recommend the use of our self drilling tek screws with 5 16 hexagon heads and 19mm sealing washers for fixing your roof. Remove roofing and turn each sheet over.

Start laying sheets over the gutter with 6 cm overhang maximum. The first raw of fixings at eave is located at 2 5 cm from the edge of the roof support osb or purlin.