5 Applications of Cladding Fixings

Cladding fixings refer to a way to fix an extra skin over the top of a building or other structure. The fixings part means that these are things that screw the skin to the area securely. That’s why they are important.

Wind Proofing

One of the primary uses for cladding and cladding fixes is to help regulate weather such as wind and keep it from causing problems inside of a building. For example, if you don’t control wind properly, it will infiltrate into a building and blow things around. By adding a second skin to the building you ensure that the wind can’t find its way inside and cause problems. The fixings help to make sure the skin is locked down properly.

As you can imagine, this is especially the case when it comes to wind since otherwise the second skin can blow right off and then it will be completely useless for keeping wind outside of your house.

Water Proofing

Another important use for these fixings is to help lock down and seal the second skin so that it protects from water. The type of cladding fixing you are going to need for this particular utility may very well be different than the sort that you need for other types of purposes, of course. This is because you need to focus more on sealing than you do on the strength to keep the skin down as is the case when you are worried primarily about wind.

This is because water proofing requires particular type of materials the can affix really closely and seal well against the water. This is important to keep in mind when you’re looking for materials.

Aesthetic Purposes  

Some people like cladding simply because it looks nice. The fixings and the second skin add another element to the house as a whole so that it looks pleasing to the eye. In some cases the cladding will also serve other purposes as well, but this could definitely be a primary one and if the fixings are large enough they could be easily visible as well.

Snow Proofing

Snow is its own type of difficulty since it will often require something similar to the type of need that you have with water sealing, for example. But at the same time it has the requirement of extra weight as well. So you will have to allow the skin and fixings to draw the snow off due to the slant of the roof without causing any kind of extra strain that might damage the roof. This is its own sort of challenge.

Regulation of Other Weather

One of the biggest challenges with fixings and the second skin is trying to anticipate ways to repel all sorts of different types of weather. After all, you never know what kind of weather you’re going to need to repel so it makes a lot of sense to make the fixings and second skin as resilient as possible in order to repel anything that might come along.