Basement to Beautiful

Wall Panels

Basement walls are ugly, damp and cold. Weather you’re looking to finish your basement now, or possibly sometime in the future, you need a solution.

Basement Systems’ unique Basement to Beautiful™ panels are a great way to go from ugly, damp, cold walls to warm, dry walls with studs and electrical chasses (channels), ready to finish in one simple step.

The Basement to Beautiful™ panels are custom-engineered, foam panels with integral studs, that are fastened directly to your foundation walls. They eliminate conventional stud framing and fiberglass insulation altogether.

And, the Basement to Beautiful™ panels are completely inorganic – so they can never rot, and mold cannot grow on them.

The panel features a unique, advanced SilverGlo foam insulation with graphite infused throughout the foam. The graphite drives the insulation value (or “R” value) of the foam up by 24% over conventional foam by lowering its thermal conductivity,, and gives it that ‘silver-gray’ shine. At 2 ½” thick and R13, the Basement to Beautiful™ panels create a warm, protective blanket around your basement.

Wood studs can rot and grow mold, so there is no wood in the Basement to Beautiful™ panel. Instead, the panel features metal studs integrated into the foam. However, metal studs are highly thermally conductive and when used to (conventionally) frame an exterior wall in a basement against your cold foundation walls, each stud becomes a thermal bridge in the wall, crating cold spots every 16” and wasting energy.

The Basement to Beautiful™ panels are designed to avoid this problem as the studs do not go all the way through to the cold side of the wall. The studs leave 2” of uninterrupted SilverGlo™ foam behind them, so they don’t compromise the insulation in your new basement walls. Thermal images confirm the studs are just as warm as the insulation!

Electrical chases are built into the panels, with vertical chases every 32”, and horizontal chases 16” and 64” off the floor. What’s unique is that you don’t need to have the electrician come to your home to rough in the wiring and then return to complete the job. It cal all be done in one step after the finished panels are installed.

The Basement to Beautiful™ panel is not a finished panel, of course, and needs to have a finished system installed over it. While there are a number of options, the best one (by far) for a basement is the Total Basement Finishing™ EverLast™ Wall panel. This stylish panel is designed just for basement environments. And with no drywall or paint, it won’t grow mold or be damaged by water, such as plumbing leaks, which commonly flood basements and can ruin finished walls. The EverLast™ panels are a cement board with washable, vinyl finish. They combine the two most popular interior colors – off white and beige – Laid over a slightly alligatored texture to hi wall shine and marks. The wall is much harder than drywall and nearly impossible to dent.

You can hang anything you want on the EverLast™ panels, wherever you want – you don’t have to find any studs. And when you want to take a nail or screw out of the wall you can easily patch it with putty and the hole disappears into the color pattern. There’s no spackling or painting – ever!

Now your exterior walls can be watm, dry and beautiful! You can complete your basement finishing by adding electrical, ceilings and flooring – now or anytime in the future. Ask your dealer to install your Basement to Beautiful™ panels with the addition of the finished EverLast™ Wall panels.