0:16The panel that holds up to washdown
Don Ross on why some food plant customers now use only stainless steel panels, even with hot water and pressure washdowns twice a day.
Don Ross on suspending an insulated panel ceiling: the tee and rod, what the engineer of record checks, where to hang from purlins or bar joists, and why he jam-nuts every hanger.
Don Ross, D.W. Ross Company. 1:08.
You can use this panel in a ceiling application. We have a small tee. This is not the heavy-duty tee by any means. This is a three-by-two-inch tee. And basically, you see you got a rod eye here. There's a 3/8 thread that goes into this. Your panel would be set in a ceiling application like so. And you'd be suspended on the ceiling. And these are basically at each bar joist or at each intersect, whether it be purlins or bar joists. But you do have to keep in mind the structural engineer of record has to make sure that these panels are capable of being supported inversely with the steel that's there in your existing building.
And if you have purlins, I highly recommend that you fasten off the vertical leg of the purlin. If you have bar joists, we like to go off the point loads of the bar joists. That's where the V is on the bar joists. And you clamp it. Basically, use a rod hanger and a beam clamp to support it. I like to jam nut everything so it doesn't loosen up with vibration from the evaporator coils and so on and so forth.
Don Ross, President, D.W. Ross Company
0:16Don Ross on why some food plant customers now use only stainless steel panels, even with hot water and pressure washdowns twice a day.
0:46Don Ross compares an expanded polystyrene core with a urethane core: R-value per inch, the FM 4880 corner fire test, and why it matters to a business insured under FM.
0:33Don Ross explains oil canning on flat, smooth panels: why long spans show it, why it is not a defect, and why a heavier 24 gauge face helps.