Texture Base Sheet
Texture Base Sheet is Cemintel®’s blue board product designed for creating a rendered texture on exterior walls. This 7.5mm fibre cement sheet features recessed edges for flush jointed external walls and is coated with a blue primer, hence the name "blue board."
Texture Base Sheets are typically used for upper stories, cantilevered features, and above long-span openings like garage doors. They provide a jointless render texture aesthetic in locations where constructing and supporting a heavy rendered masonry wall is impractical.
Texture Base Sheet is Cemintel®’s blue board product designed for creating a rendered texture on exterior walls. This 7.5mm fibre cement sheet features recessed edges for flush jointed external walls and is coated with a blue primer, hence the name "blue board."
Texture Base Sheets are typically used for upper stories, cantilevered features, and above long-span openings like garage doors. They provide a jointless render texture aesthetic in locations where constructing and supporting a heavy rendered masonry wall is impractical.
Texture Base Sheet is Cemintel®’s blue board product designed for creating a rendered texture on exterior walls. This 7.5mm fibre cement sheet features recessed edges for flush jointed external walls and is coated with a blue primer, hence the name "blue board."
Texture Base Sheets are typically used for upper stories, cantilevered features, and above long-span openings like garage doors. They provide a jointless render texture aesthetic in locations where constructing and supporting a heavy rendered masonry wall is impractical.
Key Features
Coated with a blue pigmented sealer that uses Ceminseal® water block technology on the sheet face and edges.
Recessed edges for flush jointing are 35mm long and 2mm deep and are on the long sides only.
Suitable for Class 1 and 10 and 2 to 9 buildings.
Suitable for Fire Resistance Levels (FRLs) up to 90/90/90 with wall systems constructed with Gyprock Fyrchek™ Commercial Plasterboard (refer to Gyprock® The Red Book™)
Product Information
The Cemintel® Texture Base Sheet is essential for constructing lightweight rendered walls. When installed using the proprietary jointing, framing, and coating system, Texture Base Sheets create seamless, weather-resistant facades, ideal for timber and steel framed construction. They can be either direct fixed or cavity fixed to establish a ventilated and drained cavity system.
This cladding system covers the exterior walls of a building, offering weather resistance, acoustic insulation, thermal performance, and fire resistance. For detailed information on Texture Base Sheet wall systems and performance properties, refer to CSR Gyprock® The Red Book™.
Fibre cement’s lightweight nature, combined with its toughness, durability, and resistance to moisture damage, makes Texture Base Sheets suitable for both new construction and renovations. The range of textured and coloured coating options enhances design flexibility.
The pre-primed base sheets are usually installed vertically and are available in common brick wall heights, with panel options including:
2440 x 1200 x 7.5mm
2725 x 1200 x 7.5mm
3000 x 1200 x 7.5mm
Texture Base Sheets are appropriate for exterior wall applications where non-combustible materials are required by the Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions of the National Construction Code (NCC) Volume One clause C2D1 (6)(d).
For bushfire performance, the panels achieve up to BAL-29 for standard walls and BAL-40 Flame Zone when used with a ‘fire-rated plasterboard’ wall system constructed in accordance with Australian Standard AS3959.
Recommendations
Cemintel recommends that the joint system and texture coat used are supplied by the same manufacturer to ensure compatibility of materials.
Usually, suitable coating systems are 100% acrylic, high performance, elastomeric membrane waterproofing coatings. Such as Dulux Acratex 955 or Wattyl Granolmpact or similar.
