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Application: External timber walls

Installing Steico sarking & sheathing boards over the wall frame provides numerous benefits:

  • External insulation layer provides thermal bridge free construction.
  • Provides an additional weather & water protection layer
  • Improves sound proofing properties of the building envelope
  • Boards can be exposed to the elements for up to 12 weeks
  • Vapour open allowing moisture in the building fabric to escape
  • Reduces air draughts due to its Tongue & Groove design
  • Provides additional bracing  strength to the building element
  • Adds additional fire resistant qualities to the building envelope
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Wall construction 1

Rear ventilated cladding

  1. Inner lining

  2. Timber frame

  3. Steico Flex036​ 

  4. Board (Universal / Duo Dry / Special Dry)

  5. Cladding with rear ventilation

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Wall construction 2

Rendered system

  1. Internal lining layer

  2. Timber frame

  3. Steico Flex036​

  4. Board (Duo Dry / Special Dry)

  5. Lime based render system

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Wall construction 3

Brick veneer

  1. Internal lining layer

  2. Timber frame​

  3. Steico Flex036​

  4. Board Steico Safe

  5. Brick veneer

STEICO sarking & sheathing roof boards at a glance

We carry the Steico Universal, Duo Dry , Special Dry and Safe  wood-fibre boards that are all suitable for external wall installation. The Duo Dry & Special Dry suitable for a render finish.

The  boards are hydrophobic, i.e., water-repellent. Rainwater’s surface tension cannot break through sarking boards but runs off the surface. Provided with a tightly closing, all-round tongue and groove profile, the boards offer a rainproofing function and serve as temporary covering

The boards come in standard sizes and a variety of thicknesses & R values. Click on the buttons above for product details.

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steico UNIVERSAL

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steico SAFE

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Steico Protect-H Board

steico Duo Dry

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steico SPECIAL DRY

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Typical installation

With a cladding system

  1. Boards are permanently fixed to the timber structure using timber battens & screws.

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when rendering the boards

  1. Boards are secured the timber frame using large head stainless steel staples or specialised screws with a plastic washer. 

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Downloads
Installation Guide for  Sheathing & Sarking boards.
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Downloads
Installation Guide for  render boards
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Need some help choosing
 

We can help you understand the options depending on your construction type

 

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