Roof Sheet Fixing

Remove roofing and turn each sheet over.

Roof sheet fixing.

You will have to paint the roof but is cheaper than buying new roofing. Start laying sheets over the gutter with 6 cm overhang maximum. 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. As with all of the fixing screws provided you can use a colour cap to hide the stainless steel head.

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. These should be long enough to get a secure fixing into your purlins. We recommend the use of our self drilling tek screws with 5 16 hexagon heads and 19mm sealing washers for fixing your roof.

The first raw of fixings at eave is located at 2 5 cm from the edge of the roof support osb or purlin. Stagger the sheathing in a brick pattern for extra strength. Fixing and securing sheets. Measure the opening of the section of roof to be shingled cut the plywood to size and nail to roof rafters.

You ll will find everything from nail fixings to glazing bars jointing strips and edging strips. If fixing screws are left in the valleys your roof will leak in hundreds of places. Corrugated roofing sheets should be installed into the corrugated sheets crown using a 65mm tek screw with baz washer. After cleaning the debris and reframing the roof lay down a base sheathing.

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. Eight foot 1 2 inch thick plywood is standard sheathing material.