Fibre cement or Nutec as it is more commonly known, is a substance very similar to asbestos but without the health risks. It can be used to clad various structures from a dog kennel, garden cottages and Wendy houses through to your larger family homes.
It complies with all the standards of the SABS and is specifically for the cladding of outside structures.
The boards looks just like dry cement and is available in a timber grain pattern giving it the look of timber when it is painted.
The benefits of using Nutec or Fibre Cement as a cladding material are:
- Exceptional load bearing capacity
- Cost competitive
- Excellent thermal properties
- Watertight
- Hail resistant
- Fire resistant
- Fungus and Rodent resistant
- Light in weight
- Can be painted with an acrylic PVA or any type of water based paint without pre-treatment
- It provides an out of the ordinary solution for internal and external cladding
- Available in a plain and textured wood grain finish
