Name Check / Wall Battens
Wallspan Alternatives for Wall Framing in Adelaide
Search Wallspan in Adelaide and two very different trades share the results page: a well known kitchen and wardrobe company, and the steel components that frame the walls their joinery hangs on. This page untangles the two names, then covers the wall framing side properly.
SEC 01 / The name
Understanding Wallspan’s product range
First, the untangling, because it saves everyone time.
Wallspan is an Adelaide kitchen and wardrobe company. It designs and installs kitchen renovations and custom wardrobes, including walk in robes and sliding door systems, from showrooms at Gepps Cross, Mile End and Noarlunga. If a new kitchen or robe is what you came for, their showrooms are the right destination, and nothing on this page competes with that work.
Kspan sits on the other side of the plasterboard, literally. We are an Adelaide steel fabricator, and we make top hat battens: the cold formed sections that frame, straighten and carry wall and ceiling linings. Similar name, different trade. If steel for walls is what you were actually after, the rest of this page is for you.
SEC 02 / Wall framing
Using top hat battens for wall framing
A top hat batten is a hat shaped steel section: a flat crown with a web down each side to a fixing flange. On walls it works as a furring channel and girt. Fixed over masonry or an uneven frame, it creates a straight, true plane for lining or cladding, and the crown height opens a cavity behind the skin for services, insulation or drainage.
| Application | Typical section | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Furring over masonry | 22mm top hat | Packs and straightens the wall, carries plasterboard |
| Battened service cavity | 22mm top hat | Opens a gap for cabling and plumbing behind the lining |
| Girts for light cladding | 40mm top hat | Horizontal fixing lines for sheet or board cladding |
| External batten cavity | 40mm top hat | Spaces cladding off the wrap for drainage and drying |
Both profiles are fabricated in our Adelaide facility from G550 high tensile steel, corrosion treated, in standard 6100mm lengths or custom runs. The full range is on the products page.
SEC 03 / Why steel
Benefits of steel for interior and exterior walls
Walls show every shortcut. Steel battens are dimensionally alike and stay that way: they do not bow, twist, split or creep as moisture moves through the seasons, so the lining fixed to them stays flat and the shadow lines stay honest. Steel is also non combustible as a material, has nothing in it for termites, and handles wet areas and external cavities without the slow movement that timber brings.
SEC 04 / Compliance
Load bearing and compliance information
A batten or girt is a secondary member. It carries the skin: the lining inside, the cladding outside, and the wind load acting on both. The building’s structure still runs through the studs, columns and slabs behind it, so battens are sized from span tables against cladding mass and wind pressure rather than treated as load bearing frame.
The batten carries the skin. The frame carries the building.
Kspan sections are fabricated from steel to AS 1397 and made to comply with the relevant Australian Standards. For structural walls, engineered cladding systems or unusual spans, the project engineer signs off the setout, and we fabricate to it.
SEC 05 / Quotes
Get a quote on steel battens for walls
Send through the wall areas, the lining or cladding type, the cavity depth you need and the lengths involved. We check the section and centres against the load, quote within one business day, and despatch from our Adelaide facility across metro and regional SA. And if it was a robe you were pricing after all, we wish the renovation well.
Wall battens cut to your job
Tell us the wall, the lining and the lengths. We quote within one business day and despatch battens across Adelaide and regional South Australia.
Details about Wallspan are drawn from its public websites and are provided only to help readers find the right business; the two companies are separate and unaffiliated, and no comparison of quality is made or implied. Batten selection and spacing should always be confirmed against the cladding manufacturer’s literature and the project documentation.
