CEDRAL
ETEX (EXTERIORS) UK LTD
WELLINGTON ROAD
BURTON ON TRENT
STAFFORDSHIRE DE14 2AP
Tel: 01283 501555
Fax: infouk@etexgroup.com
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 colour collections and style choices for contemporary homes
A sophisticated choice for contemporary homes, Cedral facades come in two different styles with a choice of two finishes in 21 curated eye-catching shades.
Cedral Lap is designed so the planks overlap when installed to create a traditional clapboard aesthetic
Cedral Click is a tongue and groove material which creates a modern, flush fitting facade
Both styles are offered in a choice of woodgrain and smooth finishes, while the recently launched Cedral Colour Collection collated focus group feedback with scientific colour research to create a chic, up-to-date colour range created for the way consumers live today.
Discover the Cedral Collections
Four distinct living styles have been created for the Collections using complementary palettes to make it easy for customers to match colour choices to their lifestyle and personality.
The Design Collection creates a modern impact using a monochromatic palette to make a bold design statement.
Who is it for? It will appeal to modern consumers and trend setters living in contemporary homes with clean lines.
Colour palette: Stylish black, white and a range of greys, from silver to steel and platinum.
The Natural Collection’s palette is guided by nature to create homes in perfect harmony with their surroundings.
Who is it for? Nature lovers and home birds with a strong sustainability ethos are drawn to this look.
Colour palette: A warm blend of earthy browns, sea blue, sand yellow and pearl grey.
The Classic Collection epitomes elegance through a harmonious palette selected to create uplifting, inviting homes.
Who is it for? Traditionally minded and family orientated, this consumer’s home is a soothing intimate space.
Colour palette: A classic mix of blue, green, grey, brown and subtle whites.
The Expressive Collection’s rich palette is designed to complement and contrast to create unique and characterful homes.
Who is it for? Expressives love to reveal their personality through their homes, mixing old and new to striking effect and creating eye-catching spaces.
Colour palette: A unique fusion of metal green, brick red, walnut brown and distinctive greys.
Read more about The Cedral Collections here
Award-winning and loved in the market
Testament to its success, The Cedral Collection was selected the winner of the prestigious 2024 Livingetc Style Award for Best Exterior Cladding. The industry-leading Livingetc magazine said: “Out of the numerous outstanding entries we received, your design delighted the judges and emerged as the deserving recipient”.
Cedral products also offer:
Long-lasting durability:our fibre cement facades and roofing materials have a minimum life expectancy of 50 years
Low maintenance upkeep:fibre cement doesn’t rot, rust, warp or crack and is fire, insect, bacteria and algae resistant; it doesn’t need painting and is easy to clean
Easy-to-install products: with dry fitting roofing processes and all-in-one cladding solutions
Sustainable options:we focus our business towards building a more sustainable world for those around us. Find out more
Visit www.cedral.world for more information
Seven advantages of fibre cement slates
There are different roofing solutions for different types of roofs. For sloped roofs you can choose from a variety of roofing material, ranging from panels, tiles, shingles to slates. In this article we put artificial slates – made of durable fibre cement – to the test and compare them with other roofing options. So what are the benefits of fibre cement slates for your home?
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1. Fibre cement slates are cheaper than natural slates
Slates are an attractive roofing material. Housing in the Swiss Alps used to be made of slates because of their weather resistance and durability. These stone roofs would easily last 75 to 150 years. Damage to the roof would be mainly due to ‘nail sickness’ rather than problems with the slates.
However, as slates are a natural product that require precision processes to cut the fine-grain foliated rock into the roof slates, it is very expensive. That’s why slates made from fibre cement are an affordable alternative which combine the benefits of modern slate technology with the look of a natural slate.
2. A lightweight roofing solution
Fibre cement slates are the lightest choice of the traditional roofing solutions. They are composed of an ingenious mix of cement, fibres, water and air. The cement makes the slates hard as rock, the fibres give extra strength and the air adds lightness to the material. Thanks to the robustness of fibre cement, the slates can be thinner compared to other materials such as clay or ceramic tiles, yet have the same strength.
Lightweight fibre cement slates have the advantage that they are more user-friendly and easy to handle, a definite bonus for the roofers who have to carry them to great heights. Their limited weight also makes them compatible with more fragile roof-bearing structures. Lighter and thinner building materials also have a lower transport footprint as more of them can be transported at the same time.
3. A low maintenance material
Fibre cement slates are robust and low maintenance. Cedral slates come with a special coating that repels dirt. Thanks to the strong composition of fibre cement, the slates will not easily break, chip or split. The colour of the slates ages homogenously giving your roof a gorgeous patina. Cedral guarantees up to 10 years in even aging.
Over the years, natural residues such as moss, lichen or algae form on every roof due to environmental influences. This is more of a visual flaw than damage. The green formation only affects the protective function of the roof if the rainwater can no longer drain away properly. Then it is advisable to remove the vegetation from the roof, and if after many years the slates‘ protective coating wears off, it is easy to apply a new coating and you are set to go for another few decades.
4. Fibre cement slates have a long life expectancy
Composite slates are very robust and stable. Fibre cement is resistant to extreme temperatures: Cedral slates don’t expand much in hot temperatures and they almost don’t shrink when it is freezing cold. The robust composite material, its protective coating and its temperature stability allow the fibre cement slates last you for a life time.
5. A choice of sizes and colours
A great advantage over natural slates is that Cedral fibre cement slates are made in our factories, allowing us to create a range of colours and finishes, providing a great variety of design options for your roof. Combined with different roofing patterns, the aesthetic effects are virtually endless. This gives you many possibilities to express your individuality with your home.
6. Fibre cement slates are uniform in size
Natural slates tend to vary in size, as they are natural products. Factory-made fibre cement slates are uniform in size. This makes installation a lot easier – think faster and cheaper – for a roofer, but it also gives your roof or facade a regular minimalist and pure effect.
7. Why not try slates for your facade?
It is becoming increasingly popular to use fibre cement slates – in the colour of your choice – for your facade cladding. You could even chose to continue the same slates of your roof onto your walls, to create a special stylish effect. Or you can play with different colours to contrast between roofs, main walls and annexes. The choice is yours.
Want to have a closer look at what slates can do for your home?
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