Install Guides

Step by step instruction on how to build your house in the best way.

Horizontal Cladding

1. Concrete Slab
2.
Termite Homeguard Protection / sealed to slab
3. Timber Frame
4. OSB 3 or 4 Bracing – Taped Joins
5. 90mm Bulk infill
6. 300mm XPS Plinth Starter Block
7. Windows & Doors Reveals / Cill Details
8. Compriband Expanding Foam Seal to XPS and Windows and Doors and all butt joints
9. 60mm Rigid wood Fibre
10. Vapour Permeable Wrap & Taped Joins / Taped to Slab
11. 2mm Stainless Mesh (Top & Bottom of Wall) for Ventilation.Taped to membrane behind vertical battens
12. 45mm Vertical Battens for vented facade / Screw seal tape on the back of batten / Fixed Back into Frame
13. Pull Mesh round onto face of vertical battens
14. Optional Flashing / stop bead / drip edge
15.
Horizontal cladding / lower than battens to hide mesh* must keep 75mm termite inspection zone clear 

Inside Layers

16. OSB 3 or 4 Bracing & Airtightness (Intello as an Option)
17. Min 25mm Vertical Batten for service void
18. Gyproc or other internal finish
19. Lime based paints

1

Concrete Slab

2

Termite Homeguard Protection / sealed to slab

3

Timber Frame

4

OSB 3 or 4 Bracing - Taped Joins

5

90mm Bulk infill

6

300mm XPS Plinth Starter Block

7

Windows & Doors Reveals / Cill Details

8

Compriband Expanding Foam Seal to XPS and Windows and Doors and all butt joints

8

Compriband Expanding Foam Seal to XPS and Windows and Doors and all butt joints

9

60mm Rigid wood Fibre

10

Vapour Permeable Wrap & Taped Joins / Taped to Slab

11

2mm Stainless Mesh (Top & Bottom of Wall) for Ventilation.Taped to membrane behind vertical battens

12

45mm Vertical Battens for vented facade / Screw seal tape on the back of batten / Fixed Back into Frame

13

Pull Mesh round onto face of vertical battens

14

Optional Flashing / stop bead / drip edge

15

Horizontal cladding / lower than battens to hide mesh* must keep 75mm termite inspection zone clear

16

OSB 3 or 4 Bracing & Airtightness (Intello as an Option)

17

Min 25mm Vertical Batten for service void

18

Min 25mm Vertical Batten for service void

19

Lime based paints