SHS-Top Plate Cleats

SHS Timber Beam-Top Plate Cleats are ideal for supporting timber floor bearers or roof beams on shs columns.

Either tek only or tek screw and stitch weld 50mm top & bottom both sides of channel to the shs columns.

Generally you should set the top of your shs posts to the underside of bearer less 8mm (or thickness of the top plate angle cleat). Then if vertical adjustment is required simply insert some of the 2, 3, 4 or 6mm packers supplied,  between the top of the shs post and the underside of the shs top plate cleat.

Once correct cleat level is established then tek screw 5 off series  500 12g-38 metal teks on each of the 2 faces of the lower shs cleats channel to secure the top plate cleat to the shs post.

You can use teks only for this type of cleat installation providing the shear/uplift load in your top plate cleat connection is less than 30kN for 10 teks. If the uplift force is greater than 30kN use a longer channel with more teks or tek and stich welld 50mm down each side of the channel top and bottom, this will maximise your cleat uplift capacity.

Depending on the attaching beam depth and or required uplift our cleat channels can be ordered as either 170mm long (5 teks each side = 10 teks total) or 200, 230 or 260mm long resulting in 6-12teks,7-14t eks or 8-16 teks resulting in 30,36,42 or 48kN uplift capacities for tek only installations.

Our engineers can check the loading of your cleat connection if required, simply message our team and provide your structrual / architectural plans with your suburb location or a sketch of your post spacing and load widths for our review.

Also available for roof flyover construction are our SHS Top Plate Cleat, Post & Baseplate Assemblies in Single or Intermediate, the post length in these assemblies is 284mm which equates to a 300mm underside of roof beam to underside of baseplate height .

View a slide show of the SHS Timber Beam-Top Plates Cleats and SHS Top Plate Cleat, Post & Baseplate assemblies above.