The Russwood Battening System offers an environmentally friendly, engineer-assessed, method of fixing timber cladding. It is easy to install and dismantle at end of life, supporting the circular economy of materials. It is also compatible with Securo Firebreather Cavity Barriers for enhanced fire resistance. Purposefully designed to support architects with external cladding detailing, Russwood Battening System simplifies and speeds up installation as well as reducing on-site wastage for contractors.
The system has been independently assessed to be compliant with EN 1995-1-1: Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures in advance of any other comparable cladding batten support system on the market. The system comprises of Thermopine cladding battens, load-bearing screw fixings and Kompefix ventilation strips from Russwood’s Austrian fixings partner Sihga, plus Securo Firebreather Cavity Barriers.
Thermopine is a thermally treated timber with enhanced stability and durability. It is durable through its full cross section due to the thermal treatment process, meaning that any pieces cut, machined or reworked during installation do not expose any vulnerable unmodified material.
In contrast, preservative impregnated softwood timber battens only have a protective envelope, which is compromised when it is cut. Building codes state that any cuts should be touched up with a preservative but this consumes time and labour, or in some cases is not carried out at all, which can lead to unprotected parts developing rot, potentially leading to structural problems.
Thermopine cladding battens contain no hazardous chemicals, unlike standard preservative treated timbers which can be hazardous if disposed of incorrectly. Russwood’s system also offers the benefit that it can be disassembled and reused, recycled or remanufactured the at end of the building’s life making it a highly sustainable product.
Russwood’s in-house team of technicians have carefully selected three batten shapes to make the system compatible with vertical, horizontal and diagonal cladding arrangements.
- RWB001 – 42x42mm square-edge* batten
- RWB002 – 45x20mm square-edge* counter batten
- RWB003 – 46x42mm sloped* horizontal batten
*battens will have rounded corners.
The three batten shapes follow an engineer’s calculations to make the system compliant with EN 1995-1-1: Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures, ensuring sufficient fixing embedment and structural integrity for fixing external timber cladding in the harshest UK conditions.
The batten shapes contain machined-in grooves for easy and accurate fixing using GoFix MS II screws and KompeFix flexible ventilation strips.
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