Claytec ‘Clay Board’
Clay building board for drywall construction
‘Clay is one of the earliest used basic building materials and now it is available in board form - making it a thoroughly modern and convenient building material with outstanding natural properties. It is especially suitable for high comfort, low energy buildings.
Claytec clay board, which is manufactured in Germany, is a combination of clay, reed and hessian. Clay boards are heavier and thicker than gypsum plasterboards and have outstanding thermal and vapour diffusion properties. The boards can regulate temperature, are able to absorb moisture, and at other times, gently give it off again.
Clay also absorbs odours and is an effective sound insulator.
Claytec finishing plaster or Tierrafino are recommended for giving the clay board a skim coat finish.
Claytec products, which include plasters, unfired clay bricks and mortars, embody experience gained from over 15 years of working with clay on a commercial scale.
• Clay boards are 100% natural
• Once coated with a clay skim finish the surface can take
picture hooks, wallpaper and paints
• Clay surfaces absorb and diffuse water vapour
• Clay absorbs odours
• Clay surfaces are cool in summer, warm in winter
• Clay products are not only good for new buildings but are
ideal for historic building refurbishment
• Clay is exceptionally good at reducing noise levels’
| Material/s: | Clay, silt, sand, organic and mineral additives, straw, hemp, reed and jute mesh. |
| Environmental statement: | none |
| BRE Ecopoints: | unrated |
| Green Guide rating: | unrated |
| Environmental certification: | none |
| 3rd party accreditation: | none |
| 3rd party product endorsement: | none |
| Quality certification: | none |
| Reusability / Recyclability: | Reusable |
| Recycled content to ISO 14021: | unknown |
| Life expectancy | unknown |
| Substitute for or new materials / method: |
plasterboard |
| Downloads: | Product brochure Technical data |
| Codes of Practice: | |
| Workmanship Work Section: | |
| Country/s of manufacture: | Germany |
| UK distribution location: | various |
| Alternative products: | Drylining boards |
| Further information: | |
| Information last updated: | Tuesday 29th, April 2008 |
| Manufacturer's evidence rating:* |  |
| Manufacturer: | Claytec |
| Address: | Nettetaler Strasse 113, 41751 Viersen-Boisheim, Germany |
| Telephone: | 0049 (0) 2153/918-0 |
| Fax: | n/a |
| Email: | service@claytec.com |
| Website: | www.claytec.com |
| Supply chain availability: | Supplier |
| Supplier: | Burdens Environmental |
| Telephone: | 0845 601 1188 |
| Email: | eco@burdens.co.uk |
| Website: | http://www.burdensenvironmental.com |
The product has been selected on the above average performance in the following areas:
| - | Abiotic depletion | - | Acidification |
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Global warming | - | Eutrophication |
| - | Ozone layer deplection | |
Solid Waste |
| - | Human toxicity | - | Radioactivity |
| - | Fresh water aquatic ecotoxicity | - | Minerals extraction |
| - | Terrestial exotoxicity | - | Water extraction |
| - | Photochemical oxidation |
*Note:
Manufacturer's evidence rating
* One star rating: The product has been included based on an assessment of the manufacturer's own product information.
*** Three star rating: The product has been included on the basis of a third party, independent, Life Cycle Analysis (BRE Ecoprofile or similar).
