K-Wall Groove Board Fire-Resistant Cladding

Grooved Weatherboard • Interior-Exterior

FireCrunch K-Wall TS12 Finished NSW Blue Mountains

This remarkable K-Wall product using 22nd century technology can be set internally decoratively or externally as cladding.

Firecrunch K-Wall has the appearance of timber weatherboard or groove board, and it is ideal for internal decoration feature walls, or as an external weather board appearance.

Groove board is a common description of products like Hardie board or Hardie plank and James Hardie fibre cement sheeting as cladding.

FireCrunch K-Wall is a multi-purpose protection and end-finish cladding. FireCrunch embodies the terms weatherboard, groove board and Hardie board, but benefits from being lighter weight, fixes and cuts with timber tools and has a very low CO₂ at 5% pollutive value compared to CFC cement and plasterboard Gyprock, Fyrchek, around 95% pollutive value.

International RED list chemical-free

See International LIVING FUTURE DECLARE LABEL this page. FireCrunch MgSO₄ has zero RED list chemicals.

Known as groove board, plank board or weather board, the TS12 K-Wall is 12mm thick for extra security. It comes in size 2.7m x 1.2m x 12mm and can be set horizontally or in a vertical timber look-alike configuration, screw fixed, using fast fix shiplap joints.

Fire & Finish Board with acoustic Rw 50

K-Wall cladding is thicker – 12mm – and stronger than conventional 7.5mm CFC cement James Hardie products on the Australian market.

FireCrunch K-Wall TS12 size 2.7m x 1.0m – 7 panels 141mm wide easy fit ship lap edges set vertical or horizontal

(ATL) Accredited Testing Laboratory -NATA.
Fire resistant to extremely high temperatures (1200ºC).
Meets AS 3959 BAL FZ and more, up to FRL 90/90/90.
Non-combustible (AS 1530.1) valid 2029 (ATL) NATA CSIRO.
NCC 2022 C1 TO C19 AS1530.4/2014-2029 – NCC 2022.
NCC C2.2, C2.6, CLD9, C2D11 and others under NCC 2022 Fire Hazards.
Smoke and heat release AS3837 NATA CSIRO (ATL).
30, 60, 90 and 120 minute fire resistance in load and non-load bearing tests.
Timber and steel fire tested (AS1530.4/2014-2029) valid 2029 NATA CSIRO (ATL).
AS5367 Resistance to Incipient Spread of Fire/Flashover.
Non-asbestos, AS4964 (ACL) NATA Labs Australian Certification.
Resistant to flooding and prolonged water emersion.
Resistant to bacteria moisture, humidity, mould and mildew.
Completely resistant to termites and insects.
Low thermal conductivity ~0.44 (W/mk).
Higher R-values than plasterboard.
Less expensive, eliminates multiple layers of plasterboard for high FRL.
(RISF) Resistance to Incipient Spread of Fire and Flashover (AS5637 CSIRO) ATL.
Lowest CO2 pollutive 5% vs. plasterboard 95%.

See Certifications

Fire
FRL 90/90/90 1 x 10mm sheet EACH SIDE STEEL FRAMES FRL 60/60/60 1 x 10mm sheet PER SIDE TIMBER FRAMES

Impact
10 times stronger than plasterboard.
LOAD BEARING 55kN (1.5 hrs) at 1000⁰C (see CSIRO fire test report).

Acoustics
Rw62 AS717.1 (See Certifications)

Asbestos
Nil content test AS4964 Nil Chloride
R and U value (See Certifications).

Handling
Cuts, saws, drills, routs, with timber tools, power gun screwing, massive time saving on installation.

Labour Cost Benefits
FireCrunch requires 1 sheet each side for FRL up to FRL 90/90/90 (FyrChek needs 3 layers 13mm each side) or 2 layers 16mm.

Strength
10 x Stronger than plasterboard density 1.15g/cm³.

Eco-Friendly
95% less CO₂ emission than plasterboard

STANDARD BOARD SIZES

K-WALL GROOVE BOARD 12mm 2.7m x 1.0m
and
K-WALL GROOVE BOARD 12mm 2.7m x 1.2m

Board name	Size (width/length)	Thickness	Edge	Weight	Pattern
K-Wall	2700x1000 (Qld only)	12mm	Overlap	36kg	Groove
K-Wall	2700x1200	12mm	Overlap	37kg	Groove

AUSTRALIAN FIRE TESTED CERTIFICATES

NATA/CSIRO North Ryde Sydney under ISO 17025 Infrastructure Technologies and Resolute Labs Queensland.

AS1530.1, AS1530.4/2014-2029 (C1..C19), AS1530.8.2, AS3959 Bushfire Assessment BAL FZ, Roofing, Walls, Eaves, Floors etc. AS5637 (NCC) National Construction Code.
AS4964 and AS717.1 non-asbestos content and acoustics to Rw 62.
FRL 90/90/90 and to 120 minutes with steel framing (2 layers 10mm K-Clad).

NATA LABS FIRE TEST TO NCC

Apart from being a non-combustible building board AS1530.1, it is also tested to AS1530.4 industrial level fire protection and will hold back fire for 90 minutes with just one 10mm or 12mm K-Wall TS12, fire-resistant building board.

Qualified fire testing by NATA Labs CSIRO under NCC/ABCB Canberra ACT, NATA Labs Sharp & Howells (Melb) in load bearing.

K-Wall is a thicker, more secure 12mm cladding, unlike CFC cement sheets Villaboard and Blue Board, CSR or Hardie groove board at only 7.5mm.

K-Wall is less expensive overall when fire protection of a building is required with less material.

K-Wall is a fire and surface quality paint finish product in completion. Less transport less crane up and faster installs, requires no pre-drilling like CFC.

BUSHFIRE BUILDING PRODUCTS

K-Wall groove board is a non-combustible building board, while enabling a timber grooved board appearance cladding or timber look weather board, particularly applicable in bushfire and similar BAL bushfire areas.

BAL 19, BAL 29, BAL 40, and BAL FZ Flame zone building, where no exposed timber facings or timber cladding can be used. FireCrunch K-Wall groove board is a 100% (BAL FZ) compliant timber appearance cladding to assist in a warmer country timber appearance external appearance while meeting the MAX BAL FZ Flame Zone requirement and surviving your home***

***FCA products used in flooring, ceilings, roofing and external walls will survive your property and contents, providing that all windows and doors are BAL FZ tested and closed off before departure.

LONG LIFE CLADDING BOARD

Significant additional benefits are a very long life as K-Wall will not rot like timber, is unaffected by weather when sealed and installed as per manuals of instruction on the website see Manuals & Drawings.

TERMITE PROTECTION

K-Wall is impervious to termites, so it protects all expensive timber framing. K-Wall, unlike so-called waterproof plasterboard, will not degrade at all in water or flooding, so it provides a unique flood-proof building board with minimal cost to just restore painted surfaces.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Green environmental building or planet friendly building products are hard to find.

FireCrunch K-Wall is an environmental cladding and is probably the best choice in green option, eco building materials. K-Wall uses kiln temperatures of some 650 deg C half that of cement plaster CFC products at 1300 deg C. On an index of 100 K-Wall FireCrunch is 50% less CO₂ in manufacturing however, there is more.

FireCrunch K-Wall is a Magnesia carbonation product which is poured into moulds and during the carbonation period of 14 to 21 days at ambient temperatures draws back 90% of the CO₂ produced, so 90% of 50% makes around 5% and an almost carbon neutral Production process. Plasterboard cannot do this and is a 95% contributor pollutant CO₂.