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Vinyl House beats the odds
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This article is on the Building Product News Website

www.bpn.com.au/Article/Vinyl-house-beats-the-odds/481239.aspx

 

Vinyl house beats the odds

13 May 2009
A two year old house constructed with vinyl weatherboard, vinyl windows, fascia boards, vinyl fencing and made
with wood-plastic composite (WPC) decking at the front and back remains virtually unscathed after the Black
Saturday fires in February, 2009.

Local builder, Rowan Steele of Ro-N-Co Construction has been experimenting with and selecting the materials he now

 

builds with and was particularly impressed with the performance of the vinyl products and
how they withstood the extreme conditions of the fires.

Steele believes a fire-ball passed across the block along the right-hand side of the house, closest to the vegetation,
dissolving layers of paint on the timber posts of the rear deck. The ModWood WPC decking on the front and back
 remained undamaged. The vinyl weatherboards and window frames escaped any significant damage and
 protected the house from ember attack to the interior.

When building the house, Steele chose fire-retardant materials, including vinyl and incorporated several energy
 efficient principles such as good insulation and keeping the house airtight using double-glazed windows.

As a consequence of the fires, Standards Australia recently fast-tracked a revision to the national standard for
construction in bushfire prone areas. AS 3959-2009 is aimed at improving the assessment of bushfire risk and
construction of new houses.

Certain vinyl products are allowed for construction within the new Standard, including steel-reinforced vinyl
windows up to specified radiant heat risk levels.

 

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