Hello All,
Just to be clear, I am aware about 'thermal expansion' etc with colorbond roofs.
In my last house, in the same suburb and same colorbond roof, we would occassionally get a few bangs/pops throughout the day, moreso on a hot day.
In our new house, theres popping noises coming from every area of the roof, almost all day. Hot, cold, doesn't matter. Even at 2am. Sometimes it sounds like someone is running across the roof, other times it is like a rock being thrown at it. It isn't trees or animals.
Is this a problem with installation? Anything I can point to when talking to the roofing people who will 100% dismiss it and tell me it is normal?
We have a timber frame, roof is attached to metal beam things which are attached to the frame. We don't have sarking, but didn't in our old house either.
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Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Colorbond Roof 3Aug 17, 2020 12:37 pm  anthonysmythe100We had the same issue, it sounded like continuous gun shots. The issue according to an expert was related to the darker colour of our roof which was Basalt. Lighter coloured roofs had less of these popping noise problems. We were advised by an expert to fix it by widening the roof fastener holes. We had a roof plumber which did this and it significantly lessened the noise. At present, if the weather went from extreme cold and then to hot in one day, it will creak (rather than pop) for a couple of hours and then silence. If the gun shot noise continued, the expert suggested painting the roof white. Hope this helps. Thanks, Roofing people came back and couldn't figure it out but told us the color shouldn't make a difference. I've attached some audio of what we can hear within our house all day, all night in the hope someone knows what to look for.... https://advancemm.com/Roof.mp3 Re: Colorbond Roof 4Aug 17, 2020 7:44 pm  shane3340 anthonysmythe100We had the same issue, it sounded like continuous gun shots. The issue according to an expert was related to the darker colour of our roof which was Basalt. Lighter coloured roofs had less of these popping noise problems. We were advised by an expert to fix it by widening the roof fastener holes. We had a roof plumber which did this and it significantly lessened the noise. At present, if the weather went from extreme cold and then to hot in one day, it will creak (rather than pop) for a couple of hours and then silence. If the gun shot noise continued, the expert suggested painting the roof white. Hope this helps. Thanks, Roofing people came back and couldn't figure it out but told us the color shouldn't make a difference. I've attached some audio of what we can hear within our house all day, all night in the hope someone knows what to look for.... https://advancemm.com/Roof.mp3 Hello guys we are building new house with colorbond roof Surfmist colour, there was lot of reviews about colorbond roof and people complained about noise when its raining. Do you have this noise issue only when weather is bad or every time? Does it really worth going with colorbond or to look for other option? Re: Colorbond Roof 6Aug 18, 2020 10:49 am We have a dark colour Colorbond roof which is 2 years old and we do not have any issues in regards to popping in winter or summer. Our roof structure is timber with timber batterns for the roof install. We did get 50mm Anti Con Blanket installed and when it rains hard, we can hardly hear the rain at all we also have R3.5 roof insulation installed Hey Everyone, On behalf of a friend they are looking at removing the old asbestos roof panels and replacing with colorbond as the roof has many leaks. Has anyone had… 0 1913  We did our roof in Shale Grey, and it can appear anything from the light grey in your picture, to almost white. It only went on a couple of months ago, so we haven't yet… 1 794 Thanks arcadelt. Very informative and well thought out reply. We are not planning on moving in the future, we have 3 young kids, one who starts school in 2 years and love… 9 1743 |
