Timber Frame Construction?
Best Practice Considerations Where Timber Frame and Floors Meet Is the way in which timber frame construction and SIPS construction integrate at ground level flawed? Currently reliance is placed on …
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Cannot See the Caviweep – Cannot Miss the Advantages
When choosing the best cavity weep to suit a project, one should consider the exposure and the finish of the elevation. Choosing a weep that offers sufficient outflow to service …
2019 New Solutions – Cavitray Compliant Walls
When building in natural stone, there are two popular methods of construction. The traditional method is to build against a backing skin of blockwork, behind which is the cavity and …
Adding an extension? – Be sure to have cavitray compliant cavity walls
When an existing house is constructed with cavity walls, extending the building should always follow the ‘parallel rule’ – the term applied to both skins maintaining an equal distance apart. …
Arches, Cavity Walls & Pinch Points
Rain blown against a cavity wall will gradually permeate the exterior masonry skin and gravitate downwardly. Where the cavity wall incorporates an arched opening, the downward flow is interrupted and …
New Protective Adjustable Threshold Eliminates Construction Problem
Yeovil-based Cavity Trays Ltd has developed a ready-to-use solution to eliminate a reoccurring construction problem when building on contaminated land. Originally conceived for Radon gas situations, it is called the …
Parapet Walls? – Avoid Taking the Wrong Step
Parapet cavity walls behave differently because both faces are exposed. The prevailing document dealing with the design of masonry structures and sections is PD6697 and it states the protective DPC …
Insulated floor/wall junctions and potential weakness?
The provision of insulating mediums under or on top of floor slabs and to all slab edges reduces heat loss and improves the acoustic behaviour of the structure. But the …
Masonry structural stability and surface staining
The practice of providing support to cavity-spanning DPC’s by building into both masonry skins came about because there were few alternative options to hold a soft or pliable DPC in …
Level Threshold Openings – An Easy Method of Ensuring Damp Protection Integrity
The Type LTT is a Level Threshold Tray manufactured by Cavity Trays of Yeovil. It provides a uniform standardised construction arrangement that removes risk. By isolating one of the area’s …
Avoid going adrift on a raft
When site conditions dictate the use of raft construction, the builder faces a dilemma of how to bring together conflicting design aspects. In instances where there is a timber separating …