Cladding, Building Wrap and Cavity Batten

Exterior Wrap and Cladding

I participated in the building of the bulkheads on the outside of this building. This included building the boxes, wrapping them and laying in channels that take the internal guttering. I also worked on attaching the cavity batten that the linear board is nailed to. I also participated in the attachment of the cladding. Examples of all of this work can be seen in the following images.

Explanation of work

The building wrap is applied directly over the framing timber. All the external framing timber is H3.2 on this job. The building wrap is weather proof providing ventalation out of the building but no penetration of air or water into the building. This is your last layer of protection from water. The next layer of proteciton is provided by the cavity battens. These are H3.2. They are fixed to the studs of the framing using galvanised nails. The idea of the cavity is to create a gap between the outside layer (linear board) and the inside layer of water protection (the building paper). This system is designed so that any water that penetrates the linear board then runs down the cavity battens and exits the cavity via a perforated plastic channel that runs along the bottom of the cavity battens.

The top layer of weather protection is the linear weather board. These are heavy duty linear boards that when painted provide an effective barrier against the penetration of moisture into the cavity. 

In all, the three layered system is deemed suitable to provide protection to framing from moisture thus preventing issues such as those experienced in leaky homes.

This image is of a lift shaft that we built. We are currently cladding it in linear weather board with copper soakers

Breaker and grinder I used to remove old concrete, boxing and steelwork.