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Aquapanel - Drywall for Wet Areas
Aquapanel cement board is an extremely durable tile backer providing a solid substrate for wet indoor areas such as bathrooms, shower rooms and wet rooms. Resistant to mould and mildew, Aquapanel will not deteriorate in water. It retains its strength even if fully immersed.
A purpose designed tile backing board, Aquapanel solves the problems experienced when traditional backing materials get wet. So no more costly call backs to replace rotten or damaged boards. Aquapanel Screws ensure a quick and easy installation with no special tools required. Aquapanel is ready keyed to take tiles up to 50 kg/m2 as soon as the boards are installed.
Tile Failure - Why does it happen?
Tile failure can be extremely costly and when traditional materials are used the result is often replacement of the substrate behind the tiles, as well as the tiles themselves.
With Knauf Aquapanel, however, tile or grout failure normally means only a simple localised repair is needed, as water ingress will not harm the tile backing. Tile failure occurs when moisture can get into the substrate.
Water ingress due to damaged grout, tiles or pipes simply does not affect Aquapanel, leaving you with just a localised repair. Which is why Knauf Aquapanel comes with a 10 year product warranty.
Call Knauf Drywall Technical Services on 01795 416259 for more details, or please visit our website www.knaufdrywall.co.uk
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Lowering the impact
Fibre reinforced 15mm Knauf Toughpanel boards from Knauf Drywall absorb impact to increase durability and reduce life cycle costs.
Developed for high levels of impact resistance, they are suitable for areas with high volumes of unsupervised pedestrian traffic - for example corridors and stairwells in railway stations, airports, schools and hospitals.
A typical 100mm partition, consisting of a layer of Knauf Toughpanel on each side of a 70mm Knauf Acoustic 'C' Stud with two layers of 25mm Knauf Crown Acoustic Partition Roll in the void, provides 30 minutes fire resistance and 53dB airborne sound reduction. Installations are completed with the company's FP90 skim plaster finish. It is supplied in 1200 by 2400mm boards.
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