Protect your Home and reduce Pollution by installing Environmentally Friendly Wall Cladding

Wall cladding for your home, office, or manufacturing facility should ideally help protect the structure from the elements as well as enhance its looks while lasting for decades on end. However, it is also very important to opt for environmentally friendly wall cladding to reduce your carbon footprint that includes during manufacturing, installation, and even long after the life of the cladding is over.

Most claddings available in the market either require depletion of natural resources such as forests or need a lot of energy to produce and also require infusion of chemicals that are harmful to the environment. For instance, wood wall cladding and roofs require chopping down trees as well as application of chemicals using pressure treatments to prevent it from rotting quickly as well as keeping harmful bacteria at bay.

Similarly, other materials such as wood fiber may contain certain chemicals that are not environmentally friendly. Such products also have a low lifespan and end up in landfills once their expected lifespan is over.

However, one material that is quite easy to manufacture, extremely easy to maintain, lasts easily for over 40 years, and can be recycled even after its lifecycle is complete, is metal. Modern metal manufacturing methods ensure that there is minimum energy used in manufacture even as recycled metal is additionally used to create new metal wall cladding as well as roof cladding.

Metal possesses extremely high weight to strength ratio and can be installed on existing walls. Hence, you need not strip away your old wall and dump the material in a landfill. You can merely install your new metal wall over your old wooden, fiber, or stone one. Metal claddings, when insulated with appropriate insulation can also save around 20 percent in energy bills thanks to excellent thermal properties possessed by metal. You not only save money in heating and cooling bills, but also end up helping the environment by consuming less energy and thereby reducing your carbon footprint.

Metal also possesses high ratings for resistance to fires and hailstorms. In addition, painted metal containing polymers that prevent rusting and fading can ensure that your walls will look stunning even after years of service. This will result in fewer repainting jobs during its lifetime, which in turn adds to the environmentally-friendly nature of this strong and light material.

The key is making sure that your metal walls last really long is to hire an expert installation contractor having enough experience in working together with leading architects and builders in installing walls and roofs as well as in maintaining them. A contractor with an in-house metal panel manufacturing facility will ensure minimum wastage, highly-competitive rates, and easy availability of spare materials in case required in the long run.

There are indeed very few environmentally friendly products when it comes to wall claddings that can make your home or commercial structure look aesthetically pleasing and last for a very long time with negligible maintenance. One material that trumps all others in terms of strength, long-life, and environmental friendliness is metal. You must look to metal wall cladding if you wish to help the planet while protecting your residential or commercial structure from the unforgiving Canadian weather for several decades.