LOKPRO

Acoustic Roof

Composite steel/polymer sheets forming a sandwich structure offer a compact solution that also provides the roof with sound insulation properties.They reduce the impact noise from rain or hail, ensuring a highest standard of interior

STORAGE

If nestable profiles become wet while closely stacked, formation of wet storage stain or “white rust” is inevitable. To minimise the possibility of inadvertent damage: a) Inspect deliveries on arrival. If moisture is present, individual sheets should be dried immediately with a clean rag and then stacked to allow air to circulate and complete the drying process. b) Well ventilated storage is essential. Always store metal products under cover in clean, well ventilated buildings. c) Cross stack or fillet sheets where outside storage in unavoidable and make provision for a fall to allow water to run off. Cover the sheets. It is the responsibilities of the roofing contractor to avoid damaging the roof sheeting during its installation and fixing. Never drag sheets from pile. Remove by ‘turning off’ the stack. Lift sheets onto a roof, and do not drag over the eaves or the purlins. Use clean footwear. Remove swarf and other contaminants regularly.

Installation

1. Safety Precaution

Impose highest safety awareness, protecting all parties from accident. Provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), fall arrestment tools and perimeter guardrails. Strictly adhere to all laws and practices that apply to your site.

2. Lokclip Fixing

The first run of LOKPROs have to be located and fastened, one onto each purlins, so that they will correctly engage in the female and centre ribs of the first sheeting when it is located over them. Align and fasten the remaining of the first run of LOKPROs using a string as a straight edge.

3. Fix The First and Subsequent Sheet

Locate the first sheeting over the fasten run of LOKPROs, having fasten it longitudinal in relation to the eaves overhang and then fully engage on LOKPROs with foot pressure applied to the centre and female rubs over each LOKPROs. Position the next run of LOKPROs, one to each purlins engage over the male ribs of the installed sheet and fasten each LOKPROs with the recommended wafer head fasteners. Place the second sheet over the second run of LOKPROs with the female rib overlapping the male rib of the first preceding sheet and the centre rib over the centre rib u-stand of the clips. A distinct ‘cluck’ will be heard as the spurs along the edge of the male ribs snap into the shoulder along the female ribs.

4. Check Alignment Periodically

Occasionally check that the sheets are still parallel with the first sheet, by taking two measurements across the width of the fixed sheeting.The string line can be used to ensure that the end of the roofing sheets is in line.

5. Turning Up and Clean Up

On all roofing less than 15°, the high end of all sheets must be turned up to stop water from being driven under the flashing and into the building.

General Note: Oil Canning

Oil canning is an aesthetic issue, not a structural problem or a defect . It is unrealistic to expect any architectural roof or similar wide-metal element to be totally free of some degree of oil canning. While oil canning cannot be totally eliminated, adherence to industry acceptance and recognized methods of design, metal specification, handling, fabrication, and installation can minimize its occurrence. Carefully attention to the causes of oil canning within all the phases of design and construction is the most effective way to reduce its occurrence.  

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