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Outdoor Living Fact Sheet

Outdoor Living Fact Sheet

Outdoor Living Fact Sheet

Product catalog summary
Product Overview: TapcoSlate Classic is a versatile roofing solution ideal for outdoor living projects such as garden rooms, orangeries, log cabins, and glamping pods. It offers a rustic charm with a natural slate appearance, is lightweight, and comes with a 40-year warranty.
Features and Benefits: The product is lightweight (as low as 12kg per m2), easy to install with pre-marked guides, and fully tested to BBA standards for fire, wind, snow, rain, and water absorption. It is durable, with no breakages, and can be easily cut and molded. The slate is available in a wide range of colors and maintains a consistent appearance.
Composition and Manufacturing: Made from an advanced composite polymer blend with UV inhibitors, the product is low-maintenance. The manufacturing process ensures a unique natural slate appearance and consistent coloring.
Product Design: The camber design ensures tight surface contact against wind and rain. Spacer tabs and center marks facilitate installation, and the product is designed to be stable with minimal expansion or contraction.
Ratings and Certifications: TapcoSlate Classic is BBA certified, ensuring compliance with rigorous construction standards. It also holds European Technical Assessment and LABC Registered Details, facilitating faster approvals and compliance across various regions.
Testing and Performance: The product has been tested for fire rating, hail resistance, wind-driven rain, UV exposure, freeze/thaw cycles, water absorption, and temperature cycling, demonstrating high performance and durability.
Installation Guidelines: The product is suitable for roof pitches from 14° to 90°, with specific coverage and gauge recommendations for different pitches. Detailed installation guides are available for download.
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Outdoor Living Fact Sheet-1

The Chapel Glamping Pod – MiPod Solutions Outdoor Living From garden rooms to orangeries, log cabins to glamping pods, the versatility of TapcoSlate Classic knows no bounds Bring your outdoor living project to life with rustic charm that blends effortlessly into nature. Classic Slate is perfect for outdoor living constructs, it can bend to shape and be easily fixed, all while keeping you cosy and dry in even the worst of weather. Best of all, with a 40-year warranty, it will stand the test of time. Classic Slate has 16 very different tile moulds to make sure that your roof has that natural, non-repeated look, just like natural slate, but is a quarter of the weight – saving costs on sub-structure materials and installation times. No sorting, clipping or drilling BRE testing for wind-driven rain found TapoSlate Classic to perform much stronger than all equivalent materials tested Easy to install with pre-marked nailing and exposure guides, plus horizontal spacers Fully tested to BBA Standards, including fire, wind, driven snow & rain, and water absorption No breakages – will not crack, split or break if dropped or walked upon Random Edges and patterns with constant colour throughout Easily cut with a fine-toothed saw or sharp utility blade Authentic slate appearance – combines the beauty of slate with modern technology Can easily be heated and moulded into place – copper rivets can be added for extra durability/shaping Wide choice of colours to match existing structures or to add a little more pizazz to your outdoor living project A Choice of Amazing Stocked Colours

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Outdoor Living Fact Sheet-2

COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING o Advanced composite polymer blend ‘UV’ inhibitors, blockers and absorbers, achieving an extremely LOW-MAINTENANCE product. o Colours are vibrant and controlled by using a blend of 100% virgin resins and limestone. O State-of-the-art moulding process produces a unique natural slate appearance on each tile. o A more natural colouring is created by blending-in colour during the forming process. STABILITY - DIMENSIONAL AND ‘UV’ o Product formulation results in minimal in-service product expansion/contraction on the roof. o The ‘UV’ package allows the tile to weather...

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