5 Reasons to Invest in Cladding for your Home

When renovating your home or even building a new dwelling, most people are on the look out for affordable, efficient and stylish answers to their construction problems, and cladding is one such solution.

The term itself refers to the practice of covering one material with another, cladding the original material with the new.

Apart from purely aesthetic purposes, there are plenty of other reasons to consider cladding your home. Here are the top five benefits that all homeowners can hope to achieve.

Insulation

An important role of cladding is to provide insulation from both heat and noise to your home.

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Building in Thailand

Having just returned from a fabulous trip to Thailand, I have been perusing photos that show a real mix of buildings ranging from the ramshackle to the salubrious.

Construction and building is on the up, but I wonder just how Thailand adopt basic codes and building standards to quickly put Thailand on the map alongside Malaysia, China and India.

The Government is trying to 'sell' Thailand as a beautiful holiday destination (and there is no doubt that the country has this commodity in spades), but discerning tourists are keen to have some creature comforts when staying there. The tourists appear to be well catered for but buildings for the poorer communities look like hovels with a disturbing lack of facilities.

When walking alongside these buildings, it makes you realise just how essential our own building regulations are in the UK, particularly where safety and energy efficiency are concerned.

Perhaps we'll take Wholebuild out to Thailand so that builders, architects and other building professionals can share best practice and turn some of these dilapidated buildings into 21st century projects that the nation is proud to own.

Building with SIPs Structural Insulated Panels

Structural Insulated Panels are becoming an increasingly popular modern method of construction for a new generation of house builders looking to build as quickly as possible whilst maintaining the highest standards for thermal and acoustic insulation, structural integrity and fire resistance.

 

The big question is, what exactly are Structural Insulated Panels (otherwise known as SIP’s) and what do they do?

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