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UV / rot resistance of materials

Choosing outside materials that survive sun, rain and damp without being coated again every few years. Durability here is a property of the material and how it is detailed, not of a product applied to it.

Solutions

• Naturally durable or treated cladding (larch, charred timber): Outside cladding made from a timber that resists rot on its own, such as larch, or wood whose surface has been charred. The wood protects itself without paint o