Modern weatherboard cladding that adds style and dimension
Key Features
Weatherboard cladding brings charm and timeless appeal to both heritage and modern homes. It evokes images of breezy beach shacks, quaint cottages, and farmhouses. While traditionally timber, today’s weatherboard look is achieved with modern materials like fibre cement, offering durability and resistance to warping, rotting, and termites. With smooth surfaces and crisp lines, fibre cement weatherboards are ideal for Hamptons, Cape Cod, and modern farmhouse styles. Cemintel’s weatherboard range fits contemporary, traditional, and budget-friendly homes, perfect for both new builds and renovations.
Application
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External Cladding
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Feature Walls
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External Cladding
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Weatherboards
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Balmoral® Weatherboards
Scarborough® Weatherboards
Headland® Weatherboards
Balmoral® Weatherboards
180 x 4200 x 16 mm weatherboards. A 30mm overlap leaves 150mm exposed after installation. The effective cover is 0.63 of a square meter per piece. Tip: if you know the size of the wall you need to clad, divide it by the effective cover for a quick estimate on the quantity you need.
Scarborough® Weatherboards
175 x 4200 x 12 mm weatherboards. A 25mm overlap leaves 150mm exposed after installation. The effective cover is 0.63 of a square meter per piece.
Headland® Weatherboards
170 x 4200 x 10mm weatherboards. A 25mm overlap leaves 145 mm exposed after installation. The effective cover is 0.61 of a square meter per piece.
Disclaimer: Product images and samples may vary from actual product regarding colour and surface finish due to the manufacturing process and raw materials used.
Technical Information
Weatherboard Information
Cemintel weatherboards are durable and fast to install. This makes them a good product for new construction on green field and urban infill sites. By tailoring the decorative details on knockdown rebuild projects, it’s not difficult to make weatherboard homes fit-in with established streetscapes.
The weatherboard aesthetic evokes the charm and craftsmanship of timber. The truth is, fibre cement weatherboards are more common than timber weatherboards. They’re resistant to the things wood suffers from, like rot, termites and permanent water damage. If they get wet, they won’t swell, warp or split meaning the paint is less likely to crack.
Not only are overlapping weatherboards a highly weather resistant type of cladding, fibre cement is tough, durable and weather resistant too. Since the paint is less likely to crack, it’s less likely to bubble or peel. That reduces the need for repainting, a major pain point of timber weatherboard home ownership.
Weatherboard Installation
Cemintel weatherboards are easy to install. Gun nail or hand nail the boards to timber stud frames or screw them to light gauge steel frames. Stud spacing can be up to 600 mm depending on wind zone requirements.
Boards can be joint off-stud using a metal soaker accessory (Order no. 89857) to reduce waste.
Fixing via a cavity wall system is also an option using vertical timber or fibre cement battens.
- Balmoral Weatherboard are 180mm high. They are 16mm thick, casting deeper, more contemporary shadow lines.
- Scarborough Weatherboards are 175mm high. They are 12mm thick with shallower shadow lines.
- Headland Weatherboards are slightly narrower than the Balmoral 180mm and Scarborough weatherboards at 170mm high. They just 10 mm thick and have a decorative horizontal rebate, for more of a traditional weatherboard look.
Cemintel weatherboards are deemed suitable for use in applications where non-combustible materials are specified. As per the National Construction Code Volume One clause C2D1 Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions (6) (d).
Similarly, they’re suitable for Bushfire Attack Levels up to BAL-29 when constructed in accordance with Australian Standards AS3959. External walls in bushfire zones can be upgraded to BAL-FZ when the weatherboards are part of a fire rated plasterboard wall system.
Weatherboard Product Specifications
| Product Code | Description | Width (mm) | Length (mm) | Thickness (mm) | Surface Texture | Finish | Groove Spacing (mm) | Effective Cover Per Unit (m2) | Effective Width (mm) | Mass (kg/Lm) | Weight Per Unit | Product Warranty (Years) | BAL |
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| 454428 | Balmoral Weatherboard 180mm | 180 | 4200 | 16 | Smooth | Preprimed | n/a | 0.63 | 150 | 3.8 | 15.96 | 25 | BAL-40 |
| 89474 | Scarborough Weatherboard | 175 | 4200 | 12 | Smooth | Preprimed | n/a | 0.63 | 150 | 3.4 | 14.36 | 25 | BAL-40 |
| 51294 | Headland Weatherboard | 170 | 4200 | 10 | Smooth | Preprimed | n/a | 0.61 | 145 | 2.7 | 11.5 | 25 | BAL-29 |
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