desperate need for material tips for a conservatory

[creepah]

Hello!
I have written about this issue in the window forum, but I'm hoping for better luck here... No intention to spam ☺

I am currently using wooden covering boards to hold glass panels in my conservatory, but these are not working well and have started to rot and crack.

I'm in search of covering boards made of some maintenance-free material that can handle water without problems (perhaps plastic?). The current ones are about 10mm thick, 100mm wide, and up to 2000mm long... So something similar would be great.

I found a company far south (http://www.scandinavianplank.se/sida1.html)
But they are very expensive to ship to Dalarna 😕

Very grateful for tips on what I can use... I'm attaching a picture as they say it tells a thousand words ☺

 

[breakman]

Composite decking is available at all the hardware stores, right?

 

[pelpet]

Maybe some aluminum profile?

 

[creepah]

@breakman yes.. I'll check around.. they should preferably be as thin as possible and composite decking is usually at least 22mm? :/
@pelpet yeah that didn't sound bad.. but expensive.. need to think about it
thanks for the tips.. keep em coming

 

[KnockOnWood]

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I am currently using wooden battens to hold glass panels in my conservatory, but these aren't working well and have started to rot and crack...

Are you sure you're not joking?
Wood has worked excellently for thousands of years.
If you look around in your beautiful landscape, don't you mostly see wooden houses?

Wood with a bit of surface treatment lasts a hundred years, so don't ruin the house with a bunch of plastic strips!
Priming with Jotun's Trebitt is recommended. It's base oil that isn't water-based but the real stuff.
Then paint with paint intended for windows.

 

[creepah]

@knockonwood haha no I'm not joking.. there's poor drainage (is that what it's called?) on the roof.. so even with vertical rain a lot ends up on these boards. One idea is to tear everything off and oil and paint it, but since the condition has gotten so bad in some places, it seemed more sensible to buy new.. and then take the opportunity to get something that doesn't rot.

 

[KnockOnWood]

I once knew a senior doctor in Skene, who built a nice villa.
The windows were made of teak, not pine like the rest of us have.

Consider teak moldings! They don't rot, but they cost a bit.
Otherwise, I know that in England, where they don't have much forest, they make a lot of moldings and boards, for example, for soffit and ceilings, out of plastic.
But what it's called and where to get such things, I don't know.