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User Guide: Fixing of Bottom of Hardboard Bracing Walls

This document provides a summary and recommendations regarding fixing requirements for hardboard bracing walls according to AS 1684. It notes that Amendment 4 intended to standardize fixing requirements between parts, but an oversight remained for one hardboard system. It recommends accepting nominal fixing of bottom plates for this system in Parts 2 and 3, matching the requirements in Part 4, until a formal amendment can be made.

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User Guide: Fixing of Bottom of Hardboard Bracing Walls

This document provides a summary and recommendations regarding fixing requirements for hardboard bracing walls according to AS 1684. It notes that Amendment 4 intended to standardize fixing requirements between parts, but an oversight remained for one hardboard system. It recommends accepting nominal fixing of bottom plates for this system in Parts 2 and 3, matching the requirements in Part 4, until a formal amendment can be made.

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AS 1684

GUIDE TO THE USE OF AS 1684

USER GUIDE
Fixing of Bottom of
Hardboard Bracing Walls 9
User Guides are available from WoodSolutions.com.au June 2012

(The Code clause and table references given below apply to Part 2 and Part 3 unless specifically noted)

Background
Part of the intent of the changes that were made to bracing
wall bottom plate fixings in Amendment 4 to AS 1684, were
to remove inconsistencies and anomalies between Part 2/3
and Part 4.

Prior to the amendments, Part 4 permitted lesser bottom


plate fixings for some bracing walls.

Discussion
Unfortunately, the correction in Parts 2 and 3 for one
hardboard bracing wall system, (Page 144 Table 8.18,
Item (l)) was overlooked. The correction in Part 4 was
however implemented.

For bracing walls rated up to 3.4 kN/m in Part 2 and Part 3,


the fixing of the bottom plate to floor frame or slab, was
amended to require nominal fixing only.

Recommendation
Until formal amendments can be processed through the
Standards Australia AS 1684 Committee, it is recommended
that hardboard bracing in accordance with Part 2, Page
144, Table 8.18 Item (l) and Part 3, Page 140, Table
8.18 Item (l) be accepted as requiring the bottom plates to
be nominally fixed to the floor frame or slab (see AS 1684
Table 9.4).

This will then reflect the intended changes to Parts 2, 3 and


4.

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GUIDE TO THE USE OF AS 1684

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User Guides are available from WoodSolutions.com.au June 2012

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