Cladding is both functional and decorative, contributing to the life expectancy, energy efficiency and aesthetic of a building. JRP riveting products, the dedicated riveting brand from Owlett-Jaton, offers a range of quality blind rivets for use with many different types of cladding.
As cladding is often used to enhance a building’s appearance, it is important that the fixings used to hold the panels in place ‘colour match’. Thin sheet metal cladding, ACM (aluminium composite material), HPL (high pressure laminate) and fibre cement cladding panels, are all often used with colour matched multigrip rivets.
JRP stocks a 4.8mm x 15mm aluminium/steel dome head multigrip rivet, with a grip range of 5mm – 10mm, in 34 of the UK’s most popular colours used for cladding, powder coated to RAL and British Standard colours. The company is also able to source any other colours required. Multigrip rivets offer a wide grip range, making them ideal for reducing inventory.
Whilst the appearance of cladding is important, so is its purpose of preventing water ingress and protecting the building envelope. The JRP range of rivets will provide a watertight fixing that will not rust. JRP also stocks a range of specialist dome head peel blind rivets, which are ideal for internal cladding. These rivets are manufactured to go through the insulation and use that material to claw into.
“Dome head load spread rivets offer an exceptionally wide grip range, allowing installers to use just one type of rivet when fixing multiple thicknesses of cladding,” reports JRP. “The same rivet with a washer
is ideal for affixing cladding on a roof to create a watertight seal. The dome shaped head of all three rivet types above helps distribute the load over a larger surface area, which reduces stress and prevents the cladding material from being damaged.”
The complete JRP range is supported by a full technical resource, with the technical team at JRP on hand to offer technical advice and suggest the best solution in design and application problem solving.
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