CODE OF PRACTICE FOR STRUCTURAL USE OF TIMBER : PART 6 : WORKMANSHIP, INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE (FIRST REVISION)
This part gives recommendations for the preparation, fabrication, inspection, storage,
handling and maintenance of materials and components. The recommendations given in this part are necessary conditions for applicability of the permissible stresses and loads given elsewhere in MS 544. Materials should be applied, used and fixed in such a way as to perform adequately the functions for which they are designed.
Workmanship in fabrication, preparation and installation of materials should conform in all respects to accepted good practice.
There should be adequate supervision throughout the preparation and construction of the structure to ensure that it conforms to the principles and practical considerations of the design. Members which are damaged, crushed or split beyond the limits permitted for similar defects in the grading should be rejected or repaired to the satisfaction of the designers and approving authority. For wood particleboard, cement bonded particleboard and high density fibreboard, in addition to the recommendations given in this part, all the recommendations of BS 5669 should be followed. The clauses in this part apply to all assemblies other than those of glued laminated members which are dealt with in MS 758, BS 4169 and MS 544 : Part 3.
