WHAT IS SAVEBOARD?
saveBOARD is the environmentally friendly alternative wall lining, ceiling tile, and hoarding material. Perfect for areas that require a harder wearing surface and where you want to avoid maintenance.
Made in Australia and New Zealand, they are healthy, affordable, high performance, low carbon material that make a circular economy an everyday reality.
Our board products are also 100% recyclable (by saveBOARD) as all offcuts can be remanufactured into new boards providing a circular solution.
Made in Australia and New Zealand
Environmentally friendly alternative
High Performance
Every board contains at least 20kg of waste
Circular
economy
saveBOARD takes everyday packaging waste and upcycle it into high performing building materials, which are durable and inherently moisture and mould resistant.
saveBOARD products are also 100% recyclable (by saveBOARD) as all recovered offcuts and end of life products can be remanufactured into new boards providing a circular solution.
When you use saveBOARD, you can feel better knowing that there is 20kg of recycled waste in each sheet. Once you’ve cut your sheet to size, you don’t need to take the offcuts to landfill or throw it out. You can return it to us and we can recycle those offcuts and saveBOARD waste into new saveBOARD sheets!
Want to recycle your saveBOARD wastage? Let us know and we will take it off your hands!
Call us at (03) 9701 2777 to organise having your saveBOARD recycled.
Provans Timber & Hardware - Marnie Rosenberg
“Here at Provans Mitre 10, located in Clifton Hill, we share a common ground with our customers that sustainability should be at the forefront of everything we do. Our customers strive to keep material waste out of landfill and are constantly looking at options that are considerate to a circular economy. Provans staff are currently working hard to collect all our LDPE 4 plastic wraps used for protecting timber and building supplies, outdated brochures or business cards, as well as our Tetra Packs (alternative milk products) from our on-site café, Lumbershack, to send to SaveBoard for our very own wall feature.
We believe that SaveBoard is a product that is a perfect fit for our store to feature as a display and encourage our customers to join this circular economy with their own waste. We couldn’t be happier to facilitate this process. ”
VIDEO GALLERY
Meet the Hamilton man using your waste to make houses!
From Milk Cartons To A Building Material!
Turning plastic into Drywall!
We create something beautiful from everyday packaging waste that would normally go to landfill and upcycle it into sustainable building products.
Please be aware that an orange peel texture, vein lines and the odd air bubble are all a normal part of saveBOARD products. Each board is unique and not repeatable.
not perfect
Paperfaced Texture
The surface of our boards have a natural texture. The core of our board is made from shredded particles rather than a perfect sanded surface. It has a orange peel texture that replicates the shredded particles beneath the surface.
The textured surface is most obvious when directly next to a sanded plaster joint, which is perfectly smooth.
Options are 1) Full skim coat (level 5 finish) or 2) Use a semi-rough paint roller to closely match the texture.
Alternatively, buy our square edge Paperfaced internal lining and don't plaster and paint directly over the surface.
Veins & Press Marks
Our boards are made on a continuous process however, each board goes through 3x individual presses. Each press can leave a visible press line. This is not a defect, just the tiny gap between one plate and another. The press line is more visible on our Fibreglass faced and Paperfaced products.
The saveBOARD Exposed internal lining is susceptible to longitudinal veins caused as the material is compressed.
Air Bubbles
Our Paperfaced internal lining is susceptible to air bubbles caused when steam is trapped under the paper surface. This does not mean the board is structurally weak; it just means the steam prevented the paper adhering to the core of the board.
If your saveBOARD product comes with any small air bubbles, we recommend either 1) sanding them out with P80 sand paper over the surface or 2) remove the bubble with a craft knife to cut away the paper before plaster stopping over the area or 3) Use a house hold clothes iron - put on highest temperature 'Linen' and iron area over bubble for at least 30secs should adhere paper to core.