Method of attaching an insulation panel to a building substrate

A method of attaching an insulation panel to a building substrate, comprising the steps of:

• providing a fastener setting tool, having a magazine, and a nosepiece, for inserting a fastener into a building substrate so as to secure an insulation panel to said building substrate;
• loading said tool magazine with at least one strip of collated fasteners;
• providing an attachment plate having first and second ends disposed along a longitudinal axis and comprising a washer having a central opening of a predetermined diametrical extent provided at said first end of said attachment plate;
• a first tubular section joined to said washer and comprising an inner peripheral wall defining a first inner diametrical extent which is substantially the same size as said diametrical extent of said washer central opening, said inner peripheral wall of said first tubular section terminating in a first transverse surface;
• a second tubular section joined to said first tubular section and comprising an inner peripheral wall defining a second inner diametrical extent which is less than said first inner diametrical extent of said first tubular section, said inner peripheral wall of said second tubular section terminating in a second transverse surface that cooperates with said inner peripheral wall of said second tubular section so as to define a recess for accommodating a head portion of a fastener which is adapted to be inserted into said building substrate so as to secure said insulation panel to said building substrate;
• a third tubular section joined to said second tubular section and defining a passage therein for accommodating a shank portion of a fastener for securing said insulation panel to said building substrate;
• and finger means, spaced radially inwardly from said inner peripheral wall of said first tubular section and mounted upon said first transverse surface of said first tubular section, for forming an annular chamber with said inner peripheral wall of said first tubular section so as to accommodate said nosepiece of said fastener setting tool and for closing a central bore portion of said first tubular section of said attachment plate so that said head portion of said fastener is substantially covered;
• placing said nosepiece of said fastener setting tool into said annular chamber of said attachment plate defined between said finger means and said inner peripheral wall of said first tubular section;
• pushing said fastener setting tool toward said building substrate so as to cause said third tubular section of said attachment plate to penetrate said insulation panel;
• and
• firing said fastener setting tool so as to force a fastener from said tool magazine into and through said attachment plate and thereby embed said fastener within said building substrate.