Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Aug 15, 2012 10:52 am Hi Just wondering if anyone has installed corrugated iron on their house (i.e. done the work themselves rather than use a builder). I have received a few quotes which were pretty expensive and I was thinking it could be a job my partner and I could do ourselves to save some money. We have recently renovated the inside of our house and did a lot of the work ourselves. I am contracting a company to remove the existing fibre cement sheet cladding which has asbestos. Is re-cladding something a home handyman could do? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Mark Re: Colourbond external wall cladding 2Aug 15, 2012 4:42 pm Pretty easy to do but I have 40 years experience in the building trade. Screwing sheets to the wall is easy enough but where you will have some fiddly work is where they butt up against windows and you need flashings etc to make it waterproof. You also need to get some of these joins etc to look good. Also up to the eaves sheets, how do you propose to finish them off? Quad or some other kind of trim or a U- channel that the sheets slide into? Are you going vertical or horizontal with the sheets ? And around the windows what are you planning there ? One of my clients has just done two storeys of one side of his new house in corrugated Colorbond and it does look pretty schmick. Being in the NT , I'd choose one of the lighter colours too not to mention installing good sisalation on the walls to stop heat getting in. What did the quotes you've already got specify for some of the items I list above ? Stewie Re: Colourbond external wall cladding 3Aug 22, 2012 8:02 pm Still working out the detail in terms of the trim. Quotes received are for horizontal sheets, sisilation, no trim around the windows as the colourbond will fit behind the frame, trim along the eaves and bottom and colourbond fascias on the ends of the house. Quotes have been about $20k for material and labour- the area is approximately 100m2. It seems pricey to me. Re: Colourbond external wall cladding 4Aug 23, 2012 9:08 am When I was building the type of work I was doing , we were able to work out a lot of our quotes at 50/50 labour and material. If you work out your material costs then your labour element for that quote should come in about the same. Stewie Re: Colourbond external wall cladding 5Aug 25, 2012 6:20 pm i am a builder. have done a fair bit of work with colorbond this way. it can be a bit tricky but the material is reasonably priced and you dont need to paint it. so far so good. putting it on is not hard. just the tricky bits, which is up to you. using stops to finish on is good. for the walls of the house one might expect to pay (dont know gables or height or what but) something like five grand for material. labour to put on. less than 6 days two men. so it is cheap. maybe not so much if you get plumbing contractors but you dont need them. PM me if you want. good luck leighton at clark new homes Re my second point – yes exactly. And often it may take additional time if the manufacturer recommends no more than X meters… 3 5635 Cheers. The painted render is a bit chalky to the touch. To prepare the surface for best adhesion, what would you recommend? Also, given that there must be some… 6 8497 Hi, Currently building, we are on a sloping block so we have from floor level to the roof in axon cladding. Below floor level to the ground I want to put brick facings /… 0 4478 |