Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 09, 2010 3:00 pm Hi, My home I am planning to build included Colorbond as a standard inclusion. I really love the look of Surfmist for both its look and energy efficiency benefits and was hoping to use this colour. But..... My estate restrictive covenants mentions: "constructed with a roof comprising non reflective colorbond steel sheeting, concrete tiles, slate tiles or terracotta tiles only". I assume that Surfmist being a Very Light color is now out. Does this mean I need to restrict myself to colours that are labelled as Dark? Or can I use Light colours as well and just avoid Very Light. Thanks for your help. Michelle House - Lockup completed 23rd December 2011 - Painters are in!!! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37261&start=0&hilit=Blaxland Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 2Sep 09, 2010 3:06 pm where does it say anything about what colour you can use? I would have thought that as Colorbond is all made of the same material, the colours would either all be reflective or all not? surely the lightness of the colour doesn't make it any more reflective??? "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 3Sep 09, 2010 3:08 pm This may help you. http://www.colorbond.com/index.cfm?obje ... 744D196863 also the colour classification for BCA http://www.colorbondcolours.com/go/home ... rs-for-bca Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 4Sep 09, 2010 5:16 pm Hi, Thanks for the links to the website, I had seen these previously. It does mention lighter colours are more reflective, but I am still confused as to whether I have to select a steel colour classed as dark, or if I can select a light one. My estate covenants does not mention a reflective value, just that it must be non reflective. Michelle House - Lockup completed 23rd December 2011 - Painters are in!!! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37261&start=0&hilit=Blaxland Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 5Sep 09, 2010 7:15 pm I suggest you pick the colour you want. If its an issue have the arguement then. I have seen the mist colour you mention and would not consider it highly reflective. The lighter the colour the less heat. Having said that I finished up with a medium grey tile roof. Not what was intended but worked best with other selected colours. Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 6Sep 09, 2010 7:37 pm Dove I suggest you pick the colour you want. If its an issue have the argument then. I agree! let them object if they don't like it. then negotiate down to a less reflective (or whatever) colour that you are still happy with "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 7Sep 09, 2010 7:47 pm We are in the same boat as you in that our estate stipulates a non-flective roof. It was pointed out to us that it may also depend on your style of roof as to whether the lighter colour roof is considered reflective or not. We are having a skillion roof and we were told that we couldn't have surfmist as this can concentrate the reflective light too intensly toward our neighbours. We have chosen jasper but you could go lighter like dune or evening haze. Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 8Sep 10, 2010 3:17 pm Hi, Just to give you all an update. I spoke with NGB who were not sure and put me on to someone at Bluescope Steel. Bluescope Steel said all colours are reflective to some degree and advised me to contact the shire. Shire said they are not sure what is classed as non reflective either and that I should contact real estate agent and try to get developers number from them to check. Real estate agent says the convenant is in there as it was a shire requirement in the first place. Real estate agent then contacted developers who said all colorbond should be ok as long as it is not a highly reflective like silver foil. Told them I was hoping to use Surfmist and did not think it would be a problem. Real estate agent to send email to developers to escalate to management make sure there is no problem with me using Surfmist from the developers. Will keep you all updated about what happens.... Michelle House - Lockup completed 23rd December 2011 - Painters are in!!! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37261&start=0&hilit=Blaxland Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 9Sep 13, 2010 4:15 pm Hi, I heard back from the estate developers that all colorbond colours are considered to be non reflective. Therefore I can use Surmist for the roof. Michelle House - Lockup completed 23rd December 2011 - Painters are in!!! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37261&start=0&hilit=Blaxland Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 10Sep 13, 2010 4:28 pm Hooray! you must be stoked! "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Colorbond - What are Non Reflective 11Sep 13, 2010 4:39 pm Hi, Yes I am really happy. I love Surfmist..... I keep going into Dee's topic just to admire the roof. It was going to be a hassle to change to something else. I wanted the ligher colour roof to be more energy efficient, and if I had to go a darker colour would have had to reconsider the brick selections as well. 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