Fire
Nothing in it wants to burn.
Non-combustible by composition, not by coating. Two minutes of open flame on a bare panel and the back face stays cool enough to touch.
Fire performance →Mineral cladding · Colville, Washington
Installs like wood.
Protects like stone.
A cladding panel made from diatomaceous earth. Nothing in it wants to burn, swell or rot — and your crew already owns every tool it needs to hang it.
Water
Nothing in it wants to rot.
No cellulose fibre to wick, swell or host mould. Freeze and thaw pass straight through it.
The material →Install
Same crew. Same afternoon.
Circular saw, siding nails, the fastening schedule your crew already uses for fibre cement.
How it installs →Take a torch to it.
The whole argument, in two minutes, on an unfinished sample. Then read the standards behind it — including the ones still in testing.
Fire performance and test statusFour ways in.
Whichever one you are, the material is the same — the questions are not.
What the panel is
Diatomaceous earth, an inorganic binder, and what that actually means on a wall.
The material →Fire performance
Non-combustible by composition. Every standard, and its current test status.
Fire performance →Installation
Circular saw, siding nails, the fastening schedule your crew already uses.
How it installs →For architects
CSI three-part spec, Division 07 data, BIM objects and the wall assembly.
Spec library →Where to buy
Ask your yard by name, or stock it: the regional distributor program.
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