As the name suggest, these items have many uses. They may be used to hold down lightweight buildings onto their foundations, to connect timber studs walls to sill plates, to connect upper storeys to lower storeys in the timber construction and to supplement dedicated roof-member connections.
SPECIFICATION
The permissible design load (unfactored) is 2.6kN (584 lbf) using 3.75 mm nails.
QUALITY OF MATERIAL
Hurricane Straps are supplied in two materials and two thicknesses as follows: