Beautiful façades that last - with the CeraVent® system
Variety of design, resistance to impact, long-lasting colour intensity - ceramic adhesive-tiled façades have many advantages compared to curtain-type systems. Ventilation and uncoupling using the CeraVent® system helps permanently prevent the usual damage caused by damp and frost to such bonded constructions.
CeraVent® uncouples the ceramic covering from the substrate, forming a layer of air. The system can be used both on newly applied thermal insulation layers to prevent damage and on old, damaged substrates for renovation work.
Using the CeraVent® system creates an independent covering shell, supported in stable fashion by the corresponding wall plug system. The covering support mat is uncoupled from the substrate to form a second shell. Cracks and stresses in the substrate are neutralised.
The CeraVent® system ventilation function puts an end to the backing-up of diffused vapour due to the vapour-proof ceramic covering. Damp is drained away behind the tile covering in the channels of the covering support mat. Efflorescence and breaking off of tiles due to frost, both caused by increased moisture, are efficiently prevented.
Problems with unventilated façades
Thermal changes to length:
Different thermal expansion coefficients of the building materials lead to unavoidable stresses within the individual layers, particularly with thermally insulated substrates. The covering may shear off and cracks are formed.
Rising damp and vapour diffusion:
If coverings are directly adhered to damp walls, damage to the covering may occur. Water vapour diffusing from inside to outside may, if the construction materials are too "dense," lead to condensation and then to efflorescence.
Frost damage:
Water held within the construction will expand under frost conditions and lead to tiles breaking off.
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