Install LYSAGHT W-DEK®

This information is to be used in conjunction with the LYSAGHT W-DEK® Design Manual and forms a practical construction hand book, rather than a design manual. Download LYSAGHT W-DEK® Design and Construction Manual (746 KB)

Designs can be adopted from the LYSAGHT W-DEK® Design Manual, in conjunction with a consulting structural engineer.

For information formwork, propping, construction sequence and quick selection tables see our page on LYSAGHT W-DEK®.

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Step 1: Open LYSAGHT W-DEK® sheet bundles

 

Step 2: Place props if required
Step 3: Trim LYSAGHT W-DEK® sheets if required and place on steel beams or brickwork Fix W-DEK® sheets to seel beams if required.
Step 4: Install LYSAGHT W-DEK® end cap accessories and finishes.
Step 5: Fix steel edgeform
Step 6: Cut penetration
Step 7: Place reinforcement
Step 8: Place concrete
Step 9: Allow slab to cure and remove props

Edge Form

A galvanised section that creates a permanent formwork at the slab edges - cut, mitred and screwed on site.

Use waterproof tape to seal joints

 

LYSAGHT W-DEK® edgeform