Metal Roof Batten Spacing

Twenty four inches is a common spacing of furring strips for a metal roof.

Metal roof batten spacing.

Correctly measure the spacing of furring strips for a metal roof to further decrease condensation. There are several things to consider when determining whether or not to have your new metal roof installed over battens. Your choice of batten size here will be determined by the weight and span of your metal roof panels. A metal roof must also allow for some overlap on each side of the panels which will reduce the effective width of the panel.

The spacing of the battens depend on the type of roofing material and are applied horizontally. In all cases cladding is fixed to a support of 1 0mm minimum base metal thickness bmt and minimum yield stress of g550. To determine how far apart to set rafters measure the width of the metal panel and then the width of the first hill and valley of the panel. If you want to use metal battens thinner than 1 0mm seek advice from our information line.

If additional fall protection is required on steel sheet roofs stratco ceiling battens may be fixed intermittently between stratco roofing battens giving a batten spacing no greater than 600mm. Refer to stratco for applications in higher wind conditions. The spacing of the roof battening highly depends on the type of exterior roofing material that is going to be used. For example metal roofing will be attached to special metal roof battens.

Wider panels allow for greater spacing between rafters. Roof batten spacings are influenced by support truss spacing sheeting capacity or roof tile spacing. Each product has different requirements for example batten spacing for 0 42bmt corrugated metal roofing needs to be no more than 1100 mm apart but batten spacing for 0 48bmt metal roofing can be up to 1600 mm apart. Ceiling batten spacing is invariably chosen to suit plasterboard manufacturer s requirements.

2 4 maximum lengths of roofing the valleys or pans of roofing have to carry water to the gutters.