CEDRAL
ETEX (EXTERIORS) UK LTD
WELLINGTON ROAD
BURTON ON TRENT
STAFFORDSHIRE DE14 2AP
Tel: 01283 501555
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Suppliers of: Fibre Cement Slates, Fibre Cement Weatherboard, Fibre Cement Cladding, Weatherboards, Cladding panels, roof tiles, roofing slates, roof slates, fibre cement roof tiles
Cedral - Roofing and Facade Materials – At Cedral, we build more beautiful homes.
With a wealth of experience in fibre cement roofing and facade materials, Cedral is the ideal partner for your home.
We design our solutions to work together – simplifying our customers’ lives, so you can build more beautiful, resilient, and sustainable homes.
Cedral Facade products
Cedral Click is a flush fitting tongue and groove cladding that can be fitted vertically or horizontally, creating a contemporary flat finish. Cedral Click is available in 21 colours, with either a woodgrain or smooth finish offering you complete design flexibility.
Cedral Lap is specially designed so the planks are overlapped when installed to create a traditional clapboard aesthetic on your facade. It can be installed horizontally or vertically and is available in 21 colours.
Cedral soffit and fascia boards can be used to cover roof edges, reveals and other facade elements. All products in this range have a smooth finish and are available in the same painted colours as Cedral, creating an attractive, consistent look down to the very last detail!
Cedral Facades offer four unique collections designed to help bring your vision to life. There are 21 colours, arranged across the four collections, each reflecting a specific lifestyle and outlook. The exterior look of your Cedral facade can be completed with a full range of complementary accessories and soffit and fascia boards.
Or you can opt for our slates for facades, creating that unique envelope look of your home - providing a second protective skin, and enabling performance continuity between roofs and facades.
Cedral Roofing products
Cedral fibre cement slates offer beautiful, durable, high-performance solutions that are tough enough to withstand the most volatile weather conditions.
Cedral Roofs offer four fibre cement slate ranges; Rivendale, Birkdale, Thrutone Textured and Thrutone Smooth meaning we have everything you need for your roof. Choose the colour, finishing, size and roofing accessories to create the perfect feel for your home.
Cedral light-weight fibre cement slates are the ideal material for every project. Get inspired and discover the endless creative and aesthetic possibilities of our slates.
Cedral Rivendale slates are a premium fibre cement roofing slate designed to reflect the qualities of natural slate. Available in Blue-Black or Cromleigh Graphite, Rivendale slates have a beautifully textured surface and dressed edges, combining the benefit of modern slate technology with the look of a natural slate.
Cedral Birkdale slates have a smooth surface and dressed edges. They offer a traditional and pleasing look of a natural slate at an affordable price, using nail and rivet fixing. Birkdale is available in a Blue Black colour. The edge finish and design flexibility means it is ideal as both a roofing and cladding solution.
Cedral Thrutone Textured slates have an attractive textured surface with square edges which enhances the overall aesthetic quality of your roof and home. With its low wastage and ease of installation, it’s easy to see why it is the product of choice for all types of new build and refurbishment projects. Used on a variety of applications, Thrutone Textured slates provide the flexibility to create inspirational roofs and facades.
Cedral Thrutone Smooth is a contemporary, fibre cement slate that features a smooth surface and square cut edges for a sleek, aesthetically pleasing finish. They are particularly suitable to complex roof geometries. They are one of the strongest slates on the market and are popular with architects and roofers. Available in six colours, Thrutone slates provide complete design flexibility. With its low wastage and ease of installation, it’s easy to see why it is the slate of choice for all types of new build and refurbishment projects.
Further Technical information is available from the BPi Download Library or from the Manufacturer’s own website.
Cedral Vertical facade cladding: how to install it?
When creating or renovating your facade, you can opt for traditional horizontal sidings, but why not go for a more contemporary look and fit your weatherboards vertically for a unique stylish effect. We take you through the different steps and fixings to create a gorgeous facade for your home.
wooden house wall sidings brown and white on the left blue river and sky
What is vertical facade cladding?
Facade cladding adds a protective layer around your home, keeping the weather out. It is compatible with a wide variety of insulation and gives your house a new look at the same time. Often, weatherboards or sidings are used to cover a facade. Traditionally these planks are placed horizontally, but it is also perfectly possible to fix the weatherboards in a vertical manner. You can find some inspiring examples at cedral.world.
There are a number of fixing variants for Cedral sidings, but the general principle is the same for all. The weatherboards need to be fixed to at least three timber battens (preservative treated and planed on two faces). A minimum 30 mm clear cavity must be left behind the Cedral cladding with a 10 mm continuous opening at the base, head and at the window and door heads and sills. This allows the air to flow freely behind the cladding in order to keep your walls and home dry.
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5 easy installation steps for vertical sidings
When you follow the steps beneath, you get a good idea on how to install your weatherboards vertically. You can also watch the installation tutorials at our DIY pages. But if DIY is not your thing, you can easily find a Cedral Select installer near you.
Decide on the lay of the planks. Cedral weatherboards can be installed vertically in 5 different ways: undulating (under and over pattern), flat (next to each other), lapped (40 mm overlap), open joint (with 3-12 mm gaps between) and Cedral Click (tongue and groove system). The lay determines the looks of your facade but also the installation.
Fix timber battens to the wall. Always place the vertical counter battens first to create up-down ventilation behind your cladding. Or use adjustable wall brackets instead. Next, attach the horizontal battens to which you fix the weatherboards.
Fit perforated closures to the top and bottom of the vertical timber battens, but also above each door and below/above each window. If you use adjustable wall brackets, then fix the perforated closure to the rear of the top and bottom of the vertical battens. Adjust the brackets accordingly to ensure the rear gap is completely closed.
Install the right Cedral Lap profiles. There are 6 profiles available for Cedral Lap: for internal corners, external corner junctions, external corners (symmetric), connection profiles, end profiles and external corners / window reveals (asymmetric). Use them to finish the corners, doors and windows.
For Cedral Click, choose from the 4 specific profiles for the Cedral tongue and groove system: vertical start profiles, internal corners, external corners / window reveals and connection profiles.
All Cedral profiles exist in the same colours as the boards so that you hardly notice them.
white house siding and orange roof in the middle window above the house blue sky
Fixing methods for vertical weatherboards
Each lay pattern has its own system to fix the planks to the horizontal battens. EDPM rubber sheeting must be used on front of the horizontal battens to protect them from any water infiltration and moist.
Undulating lay pattern (Cedral Lap): Place all rear planks first with a 70 mm gap between them. Ensure that the front planks overlap min 60 mm. Screw through both front and rear planks (min 20 mm from the edge) into the batten.
Flat lay pattern (Cedral Lap): Screw each plank into place with 2 screws on each batten. Leave uniform gaps between planks of 0 to 2 mm.
Lapped lay pattern (Cedral Lap): Place the first plank on the start profile and screw it into place (min 20 mm from the edge). Overlap 40 mm with the next plank and screw into place through both the head and the overlap.
Open joint fixing (Cedral lap): Fix planks next to each other with a 5-12 mm gap between them. This system allows water into the space behind the sidings. Make sure that the underlying structure is resistant to water or fit a water tight membrane for extra protection.
In these lay patterns, the screws are visible. Cedral has screws in the colour of the weatherboards to create an immaculate facade till the very last detail.
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The innovative Cedral Click system
Cedral Click sidings have a special tongue and groove system to create a flat contemporary facade, without apparent screws (Cedral Lap lay patterns always have visible screws). Also here, EDPM rubber sheeting must be used on the horizontal battens to protect them.
First install all profiles (corners, connections, start profile). Slot the first plank into the starter profile and screw the Click Clips onto every batten to fix the edge of the plank into place. Slot the next weatherboard into the clips that you just fixed, and place a new series of clips onto this new plank and screw them into place. And that way, you continue along the facade until complete. Only on the final plank, the fixings will be visible. Use the Cedral screws in the colour of the planks for a perfect result.
Want to play around with the different colours, finishes and installations? The Cedral visualisation tool available to download on the App Store and Google Play shows you the endless possibilities. Or request a sample and see and touch the weatherboards yourself.
The Cedars by Cedral
Project description
When an old doctor’s surgery in Malvern needed to be demolished to make way for three blocks of 16 apartments, the brief was very specific. Working in collaboration with the client and architect, Brooks & Pointon were the primary contractors on the site.
Danny Pointon explains that the stakeholders required a high spec finish. Hence the decision to install Cedral slates, to match the high-end brief.
“We used Cedral Rivendale in colour Blue-Black,” says Danny. “This is a very attractive and smart product, which fitted with the high end look the clients wanted to achieve. Everybody was very pleased with the finished result.”
Rivendale slates are beautifully designed to reflect the qualities of natural slate and come in a choice of two colours, chic Blue-Black as chosen for the Malvern project or sophisticated Cromleigh Graphite. With a textured surface and dressed edges, Rivendale combines the innovation of modern roofing technology with the look of a natural slate.
With a high density of cement fibres and fixings per square meter, Cedral slates are among the strongest in the market, designed to perform in the toughest weather conditions. Fibre cement is a strong, versatile and sustainable material which is lightweight, easy to work with and ideal for both renovations and new builds.
The Cedars is surrounded by trees, which gave it its name, and most of the apartments have views of the surrounding Malvern hills.
“In Malvern, we have to incorporate a lot of detail into new builds to meet the local planning regulations, hence the brickwork in the finished structure,” explains Danny.
In fact, the planning application took over a year to be approved but the end result was worth it - a stylish new building that fits into local environment in an attractive way.
Buyers agree. Fifteen out of the 16 apartments were sold before the development was even finished, with the final one sold a short time later.
