<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="ncc-clause" ?><clause xmlns:xt="urn:xpressauthor:trackchanges" id="_970148df-c04e-47fe-bcdf-6a29f4126ef8" outputclass="ncc-clause"><sptc>S2C7</sptc><title id="_b1d3dc20-dfc4-4748-b9c5-928e80a223eb">Plaster reinforcement</title><archive-num>2019: Sch. 5 (Annex): 1.6</archive-num><subclause id="_937478c6-2d2e-447e-be85-c87b69e9331d" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_77ee059a-2068-4636-9a52-0a865fe7ae9f">SubClause</title><num>1</num><p>If plaster used as fire protection on walls is more than 19 mm thick—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_c992c6e0-3601-45cb-ab79-e25327f698e3">it must be reinforced with expanded metal lath that—<ol><li>has a mass per unit area of not less than 1.84 kg/m<sup id="_cb5a3ae3-3c02-4900-843e-d670284c4691">2</sup>; and</li><li>has not fewer than 98 meshes per metre; and</li><li>is protected against corrosion by galvanising or other suitable method; or</li></ol></li><li id="_c8d7177c-986d-46f2-bd74-0eb6a2ff3231">it must be reinforced with 13 mm x 13 mm x 0.7 mm galvanised steel wire mesh securely fixed at a distance from the face of the wall of not less than ⅓ of the total thickness of the plaster.</li></ol></subclause></clause>