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Find out more about the innovation behind the Cortex prefinished weatherboard system including: the innovative installation process, prefinishing, our environmental credentials, and our single point of trust.
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Cortex is a 100% factory finished weatherboard system. This provides you with the best finished weatherboard, and reduces your maintenance and cost of ownership without compromising on style. Cortex has a solid, engineered, preservative treated timber core. It is a natural advance on the traditional bevel back weatherboard system that has successfully clad New Zealand homes for over a hundred years.
The ‘Guardian’ research project sought to understand what was occurring with cladding in the New Zealand Market. It looked at Life Cycle Cost, Performance, and what customers perceptions were of different products.
End consumers like the weatherboard appearance and perceive it as a premium product that had stood the test of time with many old timber weatherboard homes in existence. It was not considered a risky product in terms of weathertightness.
For Builders and Specifiers were residual issues with stability, a lack of clear and detailed documentation specific to the product and there was not an effective system of flashings designed to meet modern requirements of cavity based construction.
By directly addressing these values in the research and development of Cortex a new product could be created that effectively improved on existing performance, delivering a robust and improved product system.