Mind your roof claddings - Build 176 (2020)
- Abbreviation
- Mind your roof claddings - Build 176 (2020)
- Valid from
- 1/02/2020
- Information provider
- BRANZ Limited
- Information type
- BUILD article
- Format
- Website, PDF
Description
Proper on-site management of roof cladding is critical to delivering quality buildings. This is the final in a series on materials storage requirements and outlines how to store and handle roof claddings.
ROOF PERFORMANCE can be compromised when roof cladding materials have been stored and handled incorrectly, or lower roofs are unprotected when work is carried out above.
Scope
This article includes the following:
- Challenges with delivery and storage
- Transporting metal claddings
- Prefinished profiled long run metal claddings
- Pressed metal tiles
- Clay and concrete tiles
- Asphalt shingles
- Timber shingles
- Polymer modified torch-on bitumen
- Sheet membranes
- When storing materials on the roof
- Cladding system components