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News Release from: Tremco illbruck | Subject: Compriband Timber Max
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 December 2007
Compriband timber frame shrinkage
solution
Tremco illbruck's Compriband Timber Max offers realistic solution to the universal problem of timber frame shrinkage affecting multi-storey buildings.
One of the UK's largest housebuilders has been trialling Tremco illbruck's Compriband Timber Max on an award winning development in the North West for the past 18 months and believes the product offers a realistic solution to the universal problem of timber frame shrinkage affecting multi-storey buildings The Miller Homes City One site in Preston comprises a trio of five story blocks all of which utilise timber frames supplied by Stewart Milne Limited, a fabricator at the forefront of the off-site sector and the structural solution supplier for one of the homes on the BRE Innovation Park
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 17 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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On the Preston project, Compriband Timber Max has been utilised to create a substantial movement joint beneath all of the openings in the external envelope and also around service penetrations and the lift core.
The Site Manager for Miller Homes, Harry Dainton, reports: "We came up with the idea of employing the Compriband Timber Max as a 75 mm layer beneath all of the windows and patio doors in the elevations and we believe it has solved a problem that has plagued the industry for years.
"The first block has been built and occupied for 18 months now and there have been no problems with settlement or cracking on any of the properties.
The Compriband Timber Max simply goes back to its original shape without sagging or opening up.
The design is subject to 'Robust Details' and we have also been carrying out air leakage tests on the completed units and there have been no problems with either noise or air-tightness.".
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