Our Shack

Our Shack is a small single-room, single-storey building put up on a strip base in a working yard, alongside an industrial shed. It is the kind of unit a modular buyer actually orders: one box, one door, one window, no crane. Technopol supplied the LiteClad envelope over it. The register does not confirm a location for the job, so none is claimed here. The site record runs from March 2023 to June 2024.

The frame is Technopol's own cold-formed steel, rolled in-house and designed to SANS 517 / SANS 10162-2. One photograph catches the building mid-way: bare studs with a knee-braced opening on one side, EPS board already closing the wall on the other, and two people doing it by hand. There is no wet trade on the wall and nothing on the elevation that needs a scaffold.

LiteClad is the bare 0.5 mm pre-painted profiled steel weatherskin — it is the facing only and carries no bonded insulation core, so the insulation is whatever sits behind it. The photographs show that honestly. At the reveal, the cladding is cut back and the whole stack reads in one frame: steel stud, EPS board, then black concealed clips screwed through the board, with each weatherboard hooked over the course below. That is why the finished elevations have no fastener heads on them at all.

The same steel family also goes overhead. Flat LiteClad panels are fixed straight off the structure as the finished ceiling — the specifier is buying one skin from one supplier doing three jobs (wall, reveal, ceiling), and the album shows what that looks like in raking light, oil-canning and all.

What the photographs cannot prove, we do not claim. The 0.5 mm steel adds negligible thermal resistance and Technopol publishes no λ, R or U for the cladding on its own; and no fire rating attaches to the bare skin — Class B-s1,d0 belongs to the EPS core and the REI 60 result belongs to the tested NuClad LiteCore LSF wall, not to this cladding. What this building proves is the geometry, the fixing method and the junctions.