Busy household houses, commercial premises and leisure amenities all receive their fair share of wear and tear, that is why careful collection of a dry wall fabrication system is essential. Right here, Jayne Arkell, Enterprise Manager at Marley Eternit, explains why cement boards are the most effective ways of assembly these modern efficiency expectations.
“Clients are in search of constructing interiors which are durable and lengthy lasting, which means being able to fulfill impact, water, hearth and acoustics requirements. An increasing variety of merchants are actually offering excessive efficiency cement boards as a dry wall fabrication resolution realizing that they supply a troublesome, durable substrate that enhances the surface finishes capability to face up to daily knocks and bumps in addition to being water and hearth resistant and providing noise performance.
For example, using our Hydropanel product is a very efficient answer in bathroom and kitchen refurbishments and cutting-edge-builds where there is a high level of moisture. Even if completely saturated in water, it gained’t rot or warp, the board simply dries out retaining its dimensional stability. Hydropanel has the additional good thing about being mould resistant due to its slightly alkaline feature preventing the event of ‘fusty’ odours. When that is highlighted to clients they are swift to understand the benefits of avoiding costly and time consuming remedial work. The water resistant properties of all these products make them notably suitable in buildings with a number of flooring, the place the potential for an incident, comparable to a water leak, to impact on other occupants is large – some extent not lost on native authority housing determination makers.
Once put in, they can be tiled, painted or papered over, in the case of partitions or ceilings – and tiled or carpeted over within the case of floors – saving contractors beneficial time during installation.
Cement boards are hearth-secure too, which implies there is no hearth ignition, no unfold of fireplace in addition to having resistant properties in separating wall systems. Within modern buildings, this compartmentalisation – dividing a building into areas, that are separated by fire resisting parts, is an efficient methodology of limiting the unfold of fire. The Class 0 fire performance property of Hydropanel, examined to EN 13823:2002, allows merchants to offer this worth additional resolution to their customers.
Whichever way you take a look at it, there are important gross sales alternatives for merchants that provide fashionable, high efficiency dry wall fabrication techniques resembling Hydropanel. They provide clients with an effective long run solution where there is presence of moisture, the place there’s likely to be impaction towards walls, reminiscent of hallways, or where hearth and acoustic properties are required.”
Hydropanel from Marley Eternit is offered in 6mm for flooring purposes, together with 9mm and 12mm board thicknesses for wall applications. The 900 x 1200 one man board sheet is ideal for home purposes, refurbishments and brand-new build.
About Marley Eternit
Marley Eternit is a part of the across the globe Etex Group and is the main supplier of roofing and cladding solutions to the fabrication industry.
Fashioned in 2005 after the amalgamation of two market main firms, Marley Roofing and Eternit Building Materials, our unrivalled product portfolio includes all varieties of concrete and clay tiles, double and single lap slates, ornamental cladding, profiled sheeting and a range of building boards.
With over one hundred years experience we have now an industry knowledge which is second to none and can provide our prospects complete confidence in the services we provide.
Committed to sustainable manufacturing, we’re an environmental chief in the business and have constructed a repute for high quality of product and service.
By means of cautious product innovation we’ll proceed to develop roofing and cladding methods that enhance the constructed environment.