Accepted by NBHC, developed in collaboration with the Trussed Rafter Association and national housebuilders, the CULLEN Gable Restraint System can offer complete piece of mind for specifiers and housebuilders.
Search online for “gable end collapse”, and you will see videos such as this, of a gable end collapsing onto a parked car below and a pedestrian narrowly escaping.
Although gable end collapse is a known industry issue with a known solution, sadly it still features as one of the top ten risks. There is an existing and proven solution to this issue.
Accepted by NBHC, developed in collaboration with the Trussed Rafter Association and national housebuilders, the CULLEN Gable Restraint System can offer complete piece of mind for specifiers and housebuilders, with its patented CULLEN GRB-100 Gable Restraint Bracket, accompanied by CULLEN VRS-900-100 straps, CULLEN RST-3 straps, and CULLEN PFS-1500-100-B strap.
These simple, ingenious four products installed as an innovate system, give reassurance that a gable end stays in place. Compliant to Approved Document A (England) and Building Standards (Scotland), developed by CULLEN, the leading innovator of structural metalwork, this system provides complete confidence to those responsible for the integrity of a building.
The system provides a verified connection when connecting timber gable panels to masonry walls and roof trusses and has options for both continuous wallplate and raised gable wallplate.
The details have been developed to safely transfer lateral wind load on the masonry and timber gable ends into the braced roof diaphragm, giving an option to have a continuous wallplate or a stepped wallplate with the gable wallplate being raised to suit the bottom chord depth of the truss.
Whenever your project requires, you should always specify the CULLEN Gable Restraint System and only accept the best from the original innovators of the solution – ITW Construction Products.