Vista Composite Screening Slat

Capped wood-plastic composite members used in place of timber slats in fences and privacy screens. Vista slats are 90 × 20 mm or 160 × 20 mm, 2,900 mm long, with a recycled hardwood-fibre and HDPE core under an 0.8 mm co-extruded polymer cap on all four faces.

Between 15 and 25 mm for most privacy screens — that blocks a direct sightline at walking distance and still moves air. Use 0–10 mm where the screen must block the view completely, and 30–60 mm for feature screens where light matters more than privacy.

Up to 1.6 m centres, with 0.8–1.4 m typical. Tighter centres are stronger in exposed or high-wind positions. Post spacing, wind loading and foundations still need project-specific design checks, and a 2,900 mm slat length is not a permitted unsupported span.

Divide 1,000 by the slat width plus the gap in millimetres. A 160 mm slat at a 20 mm gap needs about 5.6 linear metres per square metre of screen face.

160 mm covers the same face with fewer pieces, so fewer fixings and less labour. 90 mm gives a finer line and weighs 1.28 kg per linear metre against 2.182 kg, which matters when the container fills on weight before it fills on volume.

Colorbond is cheaper per metre, faster to install and needs almost nothing done to it — on a back boundary nobody looks at, it is usually the right call. Composite slats win where the screen is part of the design: they read as timber rather than sheet steel, and you set the gap, so the same product can be closed for privacy or open for airflow. Colorbond is a solid sheet — one look, no airflow. If you sell both, the honest split is Colorbond for boundaries and composite for anything facing a living space. We compare the two in detail in Colorbond fencing vs composite fencing.

Composite does not corrode, and water absorption is 0.2% to ASTM D1037, so salt air is not the problem it is for a steel fence near the beach. Colour is co-extruded rather than surface-applied — ΔE ≤ 4–5 after 3,000 hours of QUV. Rinse it down like anything else near salt water.

Posts, brackets, top and bottom trims, spacer clips and post caps. The quotation lists them with quantities against your configuration — a price per linear metre of slat is not comparable between suppliers until the component scope is on the same page.

Slats, not finished panels. That is why you can set the gap yourself. The quotation identifies the slats plus the compatible posts, trims and fixing components for your configuration.

Both. The hidden clip-and-slot fixing is the same either way; what changes is which dimension the post or rail spacing applies to. Tell us the orientation when you request a quote.

Class B-s1,d0 under EN 13501-1 — very limited contribution to fire, the lowest of the three smoke classes, and no flaming droplets. If your project needs evidence we do not currently hold, tell us the standard and the date you need it by.

No. The co-extruded cap is the wear surface. Vista is low maintenance, not maintenance free — routine washing is still needed to remove dirt and build-up.

Yes, and it is one of the applications we are asked about most. The 0.8 mm cap removes the coating cycle, which on an elevated facade is where the whole-life cost sits — access equipment usually costs more than the screen. Colour is co-extruded, so elevations stay matched. Fire classification is EN 13501-1 Class B-s1,d0; bring us the project’s fire requirement before you specify.

500 m² in total, made up any way you like across screening, decking and cladding and across all six colours. It does not have to be 500 m² of Vista.

Yes, with tooling. The moulds are ours, so a new profile or a private-label pack is a decision made at the plant. Tell us at quotation stage so tooling is in the first number you see, not the second.

For a 20 ft container allow about 15 days production, 2 days packing and 24–32 days at sea — 41 to 49 days for those stages. A 40 ft container is about 46 to 54 days. Approvals, booking, port handling, customs and inland delivery are additional.