Profiled steel cladding – loose or missing fixings

Cause

Fixings damaged during installation

Repair

  • tighten fixings, or remove fixings and replace with Class 4 hot-dip galvanised screws or spiral-shank, spring-head nails with waterproof sealing washers 

Cause

Nails have worked loose due to movement in the cladding

Repair

  • tighten fixings

Cause

Fixings are corroding

Repair

  • remove fixings and replace with Class 4 hot-dip galvanised screws or spiral-shank, spring-head nails with waterproof sealing washers