Performance + Characteristics

Timber cladding offers designers a unique combination of practical and aesthetic advantages:

Practical advantages include:

•It’s a lightweight material offering protective and decorative design functions

•Dry installation means external envelope is quicker to install

•Elimination of heavy masonry outer walls reduces size and cost of foundations.

•Cladding panels may be factory pre-fabricated complete with insulation and breather membrane.

•Wide choice of softwoods, hardwoods and modified woods to suite all budgets.

•Performance easily enhanced by preservative treatment, wood modification, flame retardants and surface coatings

•Outstanding thermal and sound insulation properties

•Suitable for both new build and renovation projects

•Ease of repair

Aesthetics advantages

•Timber is a natural material, warm and comforting

•It is attractive in grain and colour

•Wide availability of styles, textures and finish options encourages design innovation.

•Easily rejuvenated or redecorated

•    You can leave the timber natural where it will fade to an attractive silvery grey colour, or you can finish it using stains, oils or paints.