Industrial Gutters And Guttering Systems - Step Three Installing The Expansion Joints

The third step performed by professional gutter installers, like those employed by Easy Flow Gutters in Johannesburg South Africa when installing office and industrial gutters and guttering systems, is that of fitting expansion joints. These expansion joints need to be fitted at the end of every fourth liner which will then subsequently split the gutters system into forty foot pieces. The expansion joint is made up of a self-adhesive rubber strip which covers a half inch gap joint between touching sections. At the end of the forth fourth liner, the support bracket spacing needs to be changed and this is achieved by installing the next bracket at thirty one and a quarter inches from the centre of the last bracket. Once that has been done then you need to install the other brackets at twenty nine and three quarter inches on centre until the next expansion joint is met.

After that the next liner or set of liners must be fitted with a half inch gap from the previously installed liners. Apply the self-adhesive rubber strip making sure that rubber strip creates and makes a decent bond of rubber to metal. The task of installing the expansion joints has now been completed. Professional installers fitting industrial gutters and industrial guttering systems know that the effectiveness of a gutter system is totally dependent on the way in which the expansion joints have been installed and the spacing used between each of the respective joints. Therefore it is vital that expansion joints be installed at forty foot intervals, no more and no less. However, that being said, the only exception to this spacing distance rule for expansion joint placement, is that it is acceptable if you leave out expansion joints for independent runs of liner which do not extend past fifty feet.

The gutter run needs to have end caps fitted or built on both ends to be considered independent. Gutter liners fixed without proper allowance for thermal expansion will cause the related joints to leak. From many years of experience, gained from the installation or fitting of industrial gutters in Johannesburg South Africa, Easy Flow Gutters professional installers know that it best to install all liners, expansion joints and other accessories before embarking on installing the decorative fascia. It is also a well-known fact that installers of guttering systems should never leave liners exposed to winter conditions, such as snow and ice, meaning that they should always install the liners before they install the decorative fascia. Installers need to know and realise that liners are prone to damage under such extreme weather conditions.

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