Types of cladding
Brick cladding
Copper strip / sheet coverings / flashings (NBS category H73)
Curtain walling (NBS category H11)
Fibre cement profiled sheet cladding / covering (NBS category H30)
Fibre cement slating (NBS category H61)
Glass fibre reinforced concrete panel cladding / components (NBS category H40)
Glass fibre reinforced plastics cladding / features (NBS category H41)
Lead sheet coverings / flashings (NBS category H71)
Metal profiled / flat sheet cladding / covering (NBS category H31)
Metal composite panel cladding / features (NBS category H43)
Metal single lap roof tiling (NBS category H67)
Natural slating (NBS category H62)
Natural stone slab cladding / lining / features (NBS category H51)
Patent glazing (NBS category H10)
Plain roof tiling (NBS category H60)
Plastics profiled sheet cladding / covering (NBS category H32)
Plastics weatherboarding (NBS category H22)
Precast concrete and glass lens / paver rooflights / floorlights / pavement lights / securitypanels (NBS category H14)
Precast concrete panel cladding / features (NBS category H42)
Rainscreen cladding (NBS category H92)
Rigid sheet cladding (NBS category H20)
Single lap roof tiling (NBS category H65)
Stainless steel strip / sheet coverings / flashings (NBS category H75)
Structural glass assemblies (NBS category H13)
Tensile fabric coverings (NBS category H90)
Thatch roofing (NBS category H91)
Timber weatherboarding (NBS category H21)
Vinyl cladding
Wood shingle and shake roofing (NBS category H64)
Zinc strip / sheet coverings / flashings (NBS category H74)
Sub categories tbc:
Aluminium composite material (ACM) panels
Aluminium insulating sandwich panels
Carbon steel insulating sandwich panels
Composite panel cladding systems
Faced insulating wall panels
Glass fibre-reinforced concrete (GRC) cladding panels
Glass fibre-reinforced plastics (GRP) cladding panels
Masonry capping and coping units
Masonry walling ancillary products
Metal capping and coping units
Metal sheet fully supported wall-covering systems
Pre-weathered zinc cassette panels
Profiled sheet self-supporting cladding systems
Rigid sheet fine lining and panelling systems
Stainless steel cassette panels
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