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Scope

This Code of Practice provides requirements, information and guidelines, to the Building Consent Authorities, the Building Certifier, Specifier, Designer, Licensed Building Practitioner, Trade Trainee, Installer and the end user on the design, installation, performance, and transportation of all metal roof and wall cladding used in New Zealand.

The calculations and the details contained in this Code of Practice provide a means of complying with the performance provisions of the NZBC and the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

The scope of this document includes all buildings covered by NZS 3604, AS/NZS 1170 and those designed and built under specific engineering design.

It has been written and compiled from proven performance and cites a standard of acceptable practice agreed between manufacturers and roofing contractors.

The drawings and requirements contained in this Code illustrate acceptable trade practice, but recommended or better trade practice is also quoted as being a preferred alternative.

Because the environment and wind categories vary throughout New Zealand, acceptable trade practice must be altered accordingly; in severe environments and high wind design load categories, the requirements of the NZBC will only be met by using specific detailing as described in this Code.

The purpose of this Code of Practice is to present both Acceptable Trade Practice and Recommended Trade Practice, in a user-friendly format to ensure that the roof and wall cladding, flashings, drainage accessories, and fastenings will:

  • comply with the requirements of B1, B2, E1 E2 and E3 of the NZBC;
  • comply with the design loading requirements of AS/NZS 1170 and NZS 3604 and with AS/NZS 1562;
  • have and optimised lifespan; and
  • be weathertight.

COP v24.03:Installation; Tools-Trade

14.22 Tools Of The Trade 

14.22A Hand Seamers

Hand Seamers are used to hand fold small flashings, by progressively working along the edge of a sheet.

14.22B Seaming Pliers

Various shapes of seaming pliers may be required to execute complex sheet metal work, particularly with standing seam roofs.

 

14.22C Crimping Tools

These can be used to form a small end in downpipes, or by reducing the length of a down-turn on a flashing to cause a curve in the adjacent surface.

14.22D Shears (Straight and Curved)

Shears are normally purchased in left-hand and right-hand sets.  Both may be required to cut through complex shapes.  They may be solid or articulated (“aviation snips”)

 

14.22E Roller Bender

This can be used for onsite manufacture of flashings.

14.22F Portable Folding Machine

Portable folding machines are useful for onsite sheetmetal work.

14.22H Joint Sealing by Hand Seaming

All metal joints that are to be sealed should be mechanically joined. Seaming is one acceptable method of joining two pieces of metal. 

The two pieces are folded so each hooks into the other and then they are locked together by the means of a hand seamer or groover. 

The material allowance depends on the hook dimension, but it is usually 6 mm. That means the extra allowance for the is 18 mm, because there are four thicknesses of material.

This type of seam can be used on a flat surface or round surface.

 

14.22I Setting Hammer

A nylon faced hammer can be used to reduce damage when dressing flashings.