FLATDEK® DESIGN AND INSTALLATION GUIDE

LYSAGHT FLATDEK® FLATDEK® is a long-span cladding particularly suited to home improvement projects like room additions, carports and awnings. The underside of FLATDEK® features clean uninterrupted lines, with an attractive gloss finish ensuring visual appeal. FLATDEK® may be used on pitches from as low as 2° (1 in 30). A lower pitch of 1.5° can be used if built with a gutter all around. Where the spans exceed the values in the table, higher pitches should be used. Depending on support spacings used, FLATDEK® can be installed as either: • light foot traffic roof (one maintenance person walking...

FLATDEK® LIMIT STATE WIND PRESSURE CAPACITIES (KPA) Span Type Limit State *Table values are based on supports of 1mm BMT. LIMIT STATES WIND PRESSURES FLATDEK offers the full benefits of the latest methods for modelling wind pressures. The wind pressure capacity table is based on full scale tests conducted at Lysaght’s NATAregistered testing laboratory, using the direct air pressure testing rig. Optimum product life will be achieved if all external surfaces are washed regularly. Areas not cleaned by natural rainfall (such as the underside of roofs) should be washed down every six months. Testing...

INSTALLATION OF A TYPICAL AWNING Figure 1 Fixing to masonry wall. Gutter clips at 1 metre spacing. Screw to rib. Screw gutter to FLATDEK® Continuous silicone seal channel to fascia or wall Receiver channel Closed-cell foam strip, 10mm thick Closed-cell foam insert FIRMLOK® beam (or similar) Existing wall Receiver channel, gutter and/or beam trims edges 4.8 mm dia. aluminium Bulb-tite® blind rivet with low prole dome head and EPDM seal or Wafer head self drilling screw #10-16x22 or Hex. head self drilling screw #12-14x20 Silicone seal top of screw thread for weather-tightness. SHEET COVERAGE Width...

FIT RECEIVER CHANNEL A receiver channel is often used to securely fix the FLATDEK® roof to the main building — usually to the building fascia, but the channel can be fixed to a solid wall if there is sufficient height to take wind uplift (Figure 1). LAYING FLATDEK® 1. Before you join sheets, it is important to remove the protective plastic coating otherwise the sheets won’t clip together properly. Be careful to place the sheets on a soft surface to prevent scratching. Prevailing weather Sequence of laying sheets. Sheet 3 Sheet 1 Direction of laying Prevailing wind Laying direction 2. nsert the...

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