Gib Line Bracing

We were building on our house last year when Marty our tutor call me in to the room I was allocated in for Gib fixing because the nailing pattern on our BL (Brace  Line) wasn’t nailed properly at all four corners of the Gib. Sake had nailed the nails on randomly. This only happen because he had not come to class early that morning for the theory work.

So what we did to fix it was to rip down the Gib because it was to damage to reuse and put up a new BL and re-nail it at the right centers. According to the GIB EzyBrace SYSTEM book hand “All four corners of a bracing element must be

fastened with the fasteners required for that

element at 50mm, 100mm, and 150mm from the

edge of the sheet.

Bracing element perimeter fastening thereafter is at

150mm centres.

Fasteners must be placed no closer than 12mm

from the paper enclosed factory edge and no closer

than 18mm from sheet ends or cut edges of sheets”