Cladding Options & Features
April 26, 2021
How do you keep the weather out of your home? By having solid walls.
We’ve provided you with a comprehensive list of all available options as well as their features and how they compare.
Fibre Cement Cladding
Fibre Cement cladding is a versatile, hardwearing and reliable cladding option for your home. It is available in pre-coloured and prefinished options, or for more creative control, unfinished. Fibre cement is fire-resistant, with great resistance to moisture damage, all while being low maintenance. Fibre cement is design flexible, available in both vertical and horizontal installation options, profile widths, and textured finish options.
Linea Weatherboard
Linea Weatherboard is a bevel-back style weatherboard. The horizontal lines provide clean, sharp work on expansive surfaces and spaces. They provide the traditional deep shadow lines of classically styled homes.
Benefits:
1. Resistant to high impacts
2. Control over colour
3. Trims and accessories to match are available
4. Lifespan of 25 years
Linea Oblique Weatherboard
Linea Oblique Weatherboard is a rusticated, modern weatherboard that has the installation flexibility of vertical or horizontal orientation. It is available in multiple widths to allow creative freedom over your desired look.
Benefits:
1. Resistant to high impacts
2. Colour flexibility in painting compatibility
3. Vertical and Horizontal installations
4. Trims and accessories available
5. 25-year life span
Stria Cladding
Stria Cladding is a wider option that provides a distinctive and modern look. Stria Cladding provides the feature of a horizontal shiplapped joint, with distinctive deep lines, which can be installed horizontal or vertical.
Benefits:
1. Interlocking system allows quick installation
2. Wider panels allow faster instal
3. Painting compatible
4. Cost-effective and long-lasting
5. 15-year lifespan
Axon Panel
Axon panel provides a strong, striking visual impact for your home. Axon Panel provides a perfect alternative to traditional weatherboard with its robust, versatile and easy to install features. The vertical lines provide buildings with a modern design look to stand out. Available in a variety of textures and widths, the possibilities are endless.
Benefits:
1. Engineered to last in harsh conditions
2. Painting compatible
3. Cost effective and long lasting
4. 15-year lifespan
EasyLap Panel
A shiplap vertical joint made of strong fibre cement substrate, EasyLap Panel, is a quick and easy way to achieve a modern, textured look. These panels can be finished with a roll-on paint for a rendered look or painted smooth.
Benefits:
1. Withstands harsh conditions, including coastal
2. Painting compatible
3. Cost-effective and long-lasting
4. Moisture and rot damage resistant
5. Non-combustible
6. Low maintenance
7. 15-year lifespan
Axent Trim
Axent Trim is used for decorative purposes. It provides an easy option to create classic feature corners on your home. Perfect for use in conjunction with Linea Weatherboard and Linea Oblique Weatherboard.
Benefits:
1. Withstands harsh conditions, including coastal conditions
2. Cost-effective and lasting
3. Moisture and rot damage resistant
4. Painting compatible
5. Non-combustible
6. Low maintenance
7. 15-year lifespan
Axent Fascia
Axent Fascia is lightweight and available in 2 widths. It provides performance benefits to match your cladding. They are pre-primed boards used as a base for gutters or hide fixing spaces between the roof, eaves, and wall.
Benefits:
1. Withstands harsh conditions, including coastal conditions
2. Cost-effective and long-lasting
3. Moisture and rot damage resistant
4. Painting compatible
5. Non-combustible
6. Low maintenance
7. 15-year lifespan
Titan Façade Panel
Titan Façade Panel is a cladding for exteriors, providing a modern, contemporary geometric, expressed-joint finish. Offering a strong industrial look, Titan Façade Panel provides a smooth surface to give your home a continuous uniform finish.
Benefits:
1. Expressed joint features
2. Painting compatible
3. 15-year lifespan
HardieFlex Sheet
HardieFlex is a smooth cladding sheet, strong enough for commercial use as well as ultra-protection for residential use.
Benefits:
1. Withstands harsh conditions, including coastal conditions
2. Variety of finishes available
3. Cost effective and long lasting
4. Moisture and rot damage resistant
5. Suitable for bracing
6. Non-combustible
7. Low maintenance
8. 15-year lifespan
Timber Cladding
Timber cladding provides you with the traditional weatherboard look. To finish timber cladding you have options with oils, paints and stains. Timber is durable, versatile, and available in a range of style options.
Cedar Cladding
Cedar is naturally durable and can withstand New Zealand conditions. The number of profiles and colour combinations are endless. Cedar cladding is ideally oiled or stained rather than painted.
Benefits:
1. 15-year lifespan
2. Water and rot damage resistant
3. Possibility to be installed vertically or horizontally
Shadowclad
Give your home a beautiful, natural wood exterior with Shadowclad plywood panels. A versatile cladding option, Shadowclad provides time and cost savings as a pre-primed cladding. The vertical shiplap joints provide an easy watertight installation.
Benefits:
1. Comes pre-primed ready for onsite painting
2. 15-year lifespan
3. Made in New Zealand
4. Rot resistant
DuraLarch
DuraLarch provides natural and rustic characteristics, durability and looks as good as real timber. Flexibility comes in the availability of both vertical and horizontal profiles, as well as availability of precoated range of oils and colours. Its natural durability and 15-year lifespan means that it doesn’t need a preservative treatment.
Pine Cladding
Garrison
Garrison Pine Weatherboards were created to withhold the harsh New Zealand conditions. Production of these is environmentally friendly, applying 3 barriers of protection; Garrison Weatherboards are highly durable.
Benefits:
1. Pre-sealed and primed
2. NZ made
3. 25-year lifespan
4. Environmentally sustainable
Generation 2
Generation 2 is a treated cladding product, which is protected against fungal decay and insect attacks. This product comes pre-primed, providing strong water resistance even before its topcoat.
Benefits:
1. NZ made
2. Eco-friendly
3. Low emissions
4. 50-year lifespan
Metal & Composite Cladding
The use of metal or composite cladding as a full exterior gives a home a unique look. These types of cladding have been designed with stability and longevity as the main focus. These take on a variety of options, from more traditional timber styles, stone and concrete through to using steel and aluminium. These claddings come pre-finished, meaning they are low maintenance throughout their whole lifecycle.
Metal Cladding
BrownBuilt 900
This metal cladding has been designed to feature strong ribs that allow the cladding to resist buckling under concentrated heavy loads. This is a useful wall cladding, with appealing aesthetics to catch the eye of those around.
Benefits:
1. Can be vertical or horizontal
2. NZ made
3. Pre-coloured & Pre-finished
4. 15-year lifespan
5. Low maintenance
6. Non-combustible
Dimondclad Rib50
Dimondclad Rib50
Dimondclad Rib 50 provides versatility to your cladding solution. It provides clean, efficient lines with well-concealed laps, which is perfect for both interior and exterior. This cladding comes pre-coloured and pre-finished, saving time and effort.
Benefits:
1. 15-year lifespan
2. NZ made
3. Rot resistant
Composite Cladding
Cemintel Territory
This cladding range is simplistic, natural, and with a focus on quality. These prefinished cladding panels are comparable to materials like stone, timber, concrete and tiles, in that they provide a sophisticated building façade without ongoing maintenance. Allows you to create a mixed cladding look with only one cladding system.
Benefits:
1. Easy installation with their simple clip fixing system
2. Produces a ventilated cavity, keeping your home dry
3. Pre-coloured and pre-finished
4. 15-year lifespan
Euroclad Selekta
This is a pre-finished, unique timber cladding with a woodgrain embossed surface. Euroclad Selekta was designed with stability and longevity, and style in mind. It offers a sustainable timber alternative that is eco-friendly and very low maintenance.
EuroClad Selekta is a unique, pre-finished engineered timber cladding system with a beautiful wood-grain embossed surface. Designed for stability and longevity with premium style, EuroClad Selekta offers a sustainable timber alternative that is eco-friendly and virtually maintenance-free.
Benefits:
1. Simple fixing system for easy installation
2. Resistant to high impacts
3. Pre-coloured and pre-finished
4. 15-year lifespan
PVC Cladding
Palliside Weatherboards are a smart-looking, solid cladding option, which provides the natural shadows resembled by timber weatherboards, with a low maintenance finish. This is done to ensure that the weatherboards look good over time without the maintenance of timber weatherboards.
Benefits:
1. No painting required
2. Cost-effective
3. Made from 100% recycled materials
4. Pre-coloured and pre-finished
5. 25-year lifespan
Brick & Concrete Cladding
Clay brick and concrete cladding options are sustainable and cost-effective. These options are as durable and sustainable as the hardest materials, and they stand the test of time. Brick and concrete cladding are made from natural materials, adding energy-saving qualities in their natural insulating qualities on top of their natural noise-absorbing abilities. They protect your home against moisture damage, rot, mould, pests and insects. This form of cladding provides design flexibility, from leaving the bricks and concrete natural through to painting. They are also available in a range of styles, profiles, colours, joint styles, and bonding to mix to give your home your own personal touch.
Blocks
BreezeBlocks
Breezeblocks have variety in their availability of colours and effortless style. They can be used as an external feature wall to provide privacy or sun protection. But they can also be used as an internal design feature.
Benefits:
1. 25-year lifespan
2. Design flexibility
3. Low maintenance
4. Non-combustible
Honed Block
This block has a natural aggregate shine to it that oozes elegance. Honed Block can be used to create seamless connections between internal and external elements of your home. They have natural insulation qualities, helping to lower the energy costs of the property. Highly durable, strong and impact-resistant, these blocks provide natural sound insulation.
Benefits:
1. 25-year lifespan
2. Design flexibility
3. Non-combustible
4. Low maintenance
5. Pre-finished
Clay Brick
Clay brick provides durability, sustainability and long-lasting performance. They’re cool in the summer, insulating and warm, and the winter, with flexibility in a range of colours, textures and sizes. These pre-finished bricks don’t shrink or fade over time, giving them a 25-year lifespan.
Concrete Brick
Concrete brick provides a natural, visual appeal, similar to stone. These bricks are built to last, cooling in the summer and providing warm insulation in winter. Colour pigments are present throughout the brick. Coming pre-finished, these bricks have a 15-year lifespan.