Timber Cladding
Warranty
Accoya wood cladding has an industry-leading warranty, giving you peace of mind and complete confidence in it’s performance.
Ideal for Coating
Stay true to your vision with a range of finishes, including Shou Sugi Ban and bespoke board sizes and fixings. Left untreated, your exterior wood cladding will weather naturally. But if you’d prefer to coat it, Accoya cladding makes the ultimate surface.
Sustainably Sourced
Now you can meet the most demanding of planning requirements. Accoya wood cladding is 100% non toxic and contains no biocides or harmful chemicals. Each timber cladding panel is made from FSC® certified timber that’s fully sustainable.
Accoya Cladding
What Is Cladding
Cladding is a layer of material applied to a building or surface. External cladding is very popular and is often chosen to provide extra protection, although internal cladding is available too.
Wall cladding can also be an aesthetic choice and is available in numerous materials including timber cladding. If timber is desired, Accoya is an ideal choice, providing exceptional stability, durability and many other benefits which other wood cladding cannot offer.
Testing by BM Trada
Stability
BM Trada tested Accoya’s stability against other cladding materials through cyclic exposure to wet and ambient conditions. They found Accoya to be exceptionally stable, allowing for wider external cladding profiles (150mm to 200mm), showcasing its superior performance over western red cedar, larch, and thermally modified pine.
Coatings performance
BM Trada was also commissioned for a series of exposure trials starting in February 2007 in Buckinghamshire, England. The trials used the same translucent black coating for maximum radiant heat build and tested resistance to natural weathering and splitting of Accoya cladding board’s compared to pine and Siberian larch.
In separate trials, BM Trada evaluated Accoya’s coatings performance compared to pine and Siberian larch. After 3.5 years, Accoya demonstrated superior performance, maintaining a flat surface without grain raising, shelling, or fissuring. It easily cleaned external dirt, affirming its superior coating performance over competing materials.
Assessed by BRE
Durability
BS EN350-2 does not apply to modified timbers such as Accoya, however, in a BRE assessment Accoya achieved durability class 1 rating equivalent to class 1 of natural timbers. Therefore service life statements attributed in BS 8417 are applicable to Accoya wood. Under BS 8417, only cladding made from timbers of durability class 1 are suitable for situations where there is a desired service life of 60 years.
To specify Accoya cladding in your next project, head to our Architect Zone to learn more.