My wife and I are in the early stages of planning a owner- build of a two story metal-framed, timber/ripple iron-clad contemporary Queenslander home in the (very) wet tropics in FNQ. We have extensive renovation of Qlder experience but are not tradies - rather pretty good amateurs especially in hardwood.
We were going to use traditional hard wood weather boards with some ripple iron inserts for the exterior cladding, but a designer suggested we should explore some of the higher end ply cladding systems now available.
The home will be in a 1000 square metre clearing in 50 year old rainforest regrowth with annual rainfall of more than 2.5 metres. All walls will be covered by either 2.4m verandah roof or 1.2 metre eaves overhang.
Would love anyone with external ply experience to educate us on the material.
Thanks for reading.
Experience with Plyboard Timber Cladding
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If the designer suggested it why haven't they supplied you links to these products?
I have also never heard of ripple iron inserts. What are those ???
Stewie
I have also never heard of ripple iron inserts. What are those ???
Stewie
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