A look at an interior wall clad in steel plate ... and a look at the math that determined how to fasten that steel to the wall using double-sided tape.
That's right. We are using tape to attach steel to the wall.

There is a detail we have in our cabin project that I am anxious to see built. Within the two-story stairwell along the main wall, we are cladding the surface with 16 gauge steel plating.I get all tingly just thinking about it.Here is a building section through the cabin and I have taken the liberty of shading the portion of the drawing where the steel plate will be installed. I have included an enlarged section elevation below –We probably drew somewhere between 5 and 10 different patterns for this steel wall during the design phase, but in the end, we settled on a 41″ x 41″ square piece of steel once the pricing options came in for evaluation. As tingly as I get over this sort of thing, this is not actually why I decided to write this post today. It was because of the math involved.Hmmm. I’m not so tingly anymore.This post is based on the sort of math I do day in and day out. It’s definitely not difficult and I thought I should show you what this sort of math looks like.I’ll back up just a bit and tell what I was trying to do in the first place. I decided that I didn’t want to have exposed fasteners on the plate metal panels we have on this wall – so that means I needed to use double sided tape in order to hold the ...