Tuesday 13 October 2020

Top Reasons to use Solid aluminium cladding

Solid aluminium cladding has many advantages over more traditional materials, because its light weight, it’s easy to install on both new and existing buildings with minimal preparation. It’s a very cost effective way to modernize a building both inside and outside and ideal for display areas.

Some of the other top reasons to use solid aluminium cladding are:

·        Appearance

The first thing people notice about a building is its external appearance or façade, solid aluminium cladding adds an elegant, aesthetically pleasing modern look that will enhance any building. It comes in many modern interesting shapes and designs to help your building stand out from the rest shapes and designs that were just not practical or available just a few years ago

·        Low Maintenance

Solid aluminium cladding provides superior protection against all the different types of extreme weather conditions expected on the Gold Coast and has the advantage that it does not absorb moisture or provide a habitat or breeding ground for many of the pests that try to invade our homes. They can’t eat it borrow into it or live around it making it pest proof

·        Versatility

Solid aluminium cladding can be formed, cut, drilled folded and bent without losing its structural integrity, making it very versatile. With its long practical working life, durability and flexibility, solid aluminium cladding can be used in areas where other materials are impractical and too expensive.

Solid aluminium cladding is often used to keep internal spaces looking fresh and clean offering a good wear resistant, tuff surface commonly, seen on the walls in corridors and commercial areas such as airports, hospitals and schools

·        Light Weight

Solid aluminium cladding is 66% lighter on average than steel cladding, making it easy to install with its inherent strength and beauty, it’s now used in many of Australia’s buildings as our most preferred material for all types of cladding systems. Being light weight it is easily transported to difficult sites and can be installed without the need for heavy metal working equipment or as many workers

·        Low Cost

Solid aluminium cladding is very cost-effective and ready coloured. Because of its strength and low weight, it requires less fixation points and fewer technicians to install it than other materials that used to be used for cladding, helping to further lower labour costs. It also minimises ongoing maintenance and is resistant to all pests including mould, mildew and fungi

·        Variety

Solid aluminium cladding comes in a large range of colours, shapes and sizes to suit different applications and can be colour matched to suit your branding or company colours

·        Highly Functional

Solid aluminium cladding is corrosion resistant, fire proof, sound insulated and earthquake resistant. They are easy to clean and help to lower energy cost and they have excellent insulation properties weathering abilities as well as being all totally recyclable materials when no longer required, so leaves a minimal green footprint

·        Easily cleaned

The strong anti-fade finish on solid aluminum cladding is resistant to graffiti and vandalism while being easy to clean

·        Non-Combustible

·        While aluminium will melt at temperatures over 600C it is totally non-combustible and does not generate toxic gasses in the event of a fire

 

Solid aluminium cladding with its low-cost long life and ease of installation has become one of Australia’s most popular and versatile claddings