Description

The Pineclad and Pineclad TMT Vertical Weatherboard External Cladding System comprise timber weatherboards, fascia boards, moulding profiles and castellated cavity battens manufactured from radiata pine that has been thermally modified or chemically treated. Profiles may be finger jointed or solid.

The Pineclad and Pineclad TMT Vertical Weatherboard External Cladding System is designed to be used as part of an external cladding system.

Scope

The Pineclad & Pineclad TMT Vertical Weatherboard External Cladding System is certified as an external wall cladding for buildings within the following scope:

• a. with timber or lightweight steel framing that complies with the NZ Building Code or for existing buildings that has the equivalent stiffness to the framing provisions of NZS3604:2011, and
• b. in wind zones up to and including extra high as defined in NZS3604:2011, or for Specifically Engineer Designed buildings with a maximum design Ultimate Limit State (ULS) wind pressure of 2.5kPa, and
• c. in exposure Zones B, C and D as defined in NZS3604:2011. Microclimatic Conditions (refer NZS3604:2011 paragraph 4.2.4) are outside the scope of this certificate for both timber framed and steel framed buildings, and
• d. up to 10 m in building height, and
• e. further than 1m from a relevant and notional boundary, unless compliance may be established (outside the scope of this certificate) through reliance on C/AS1 or C/AS2.

The Pineclad & Pineclad TMT Vertical Weatherboard External Cladding shall be:

• a. Used in conjunction with a flexible building wrap or rigid air barrier depending on location wind zone and as a minimum, in accordance with:
  • i. E2/AS1 3rd edition, amendment 10 date 5 November 2020 Table 23 for timber framed buildings, or
  • ii. NASH building Envelop Solution:2019 Table 23 for steel framed buildings, and
• b. Directly fixed or fixed over a ventilated cavity in accordance with Table 3, E2/AS1 or E2/AS4. For applications not referenced in the applicable acceptable solution, the cladding will be installed over a ventilated cavity, and
• c. used on buildings with a risk score not greater than 20, when evaluated against:
  • i. E2/AS1 3rd edition, amendment 10 date 5 November 2020 risk matrix for timber framed building or
  • ii. NASH building Envelope Solution:2019 risk matrix as referenced by E2/AS4 for steel framed buildings, and
• d. used with aluminium window and door joinery that meets the requirements of NZS 4211:2008 including amendment 1 or has a current Product Certificate or with traditional timber joinery as set out in BRANZ bulletin BU481, and
• e. where Pineclad is finished with a paint coating, the LRV of the top coating paint must not be less than 45% (excludes Pineclad TMT).