Home Fibre cement: key questions Philip Wallis, Marley Eternit: “Slate-and-a-half width slates should be used to maintain a broken bond pattern and to ensure that fibre cement slates can be appropriately secured using the correct minimum fixing requirement of two nails and one copper disc rivet”

Philip Wallis, Marley Eternit: “Slate-and-a-half width slates should be used to maintain a broken bond pattern and to ensure that fibre cement slates can be appropriately secured using the correct minimum fixing requirement of two nails and one copper disc rivet”

Table shows max wind suction loadings for fibre cement slates

Philip Wallis, Marley Eternit: “Slate-and-a-half width slates should be used to maintain a broken bond pattern and to ensure that fibre cement slates can be appropriately secured using the correct minimum fixing requirement of two nails and one copper disc rivet”

Table shows max wind suction loadings for fibre cement slates