roofing options

Leece · Jan 06, 2008 9:44 pm

Hello, I am new here, been looking around for a while and gotten some great Information from you all, thank-you.

We are in the process of building our 1st new home, and are at the stage of choosing different options.

Does anybody know/have recommendations on roofing. The options are either tiles or colorbond steel. Is one better than the other? Is one more energy efficient than the other? What are people's experiences with either?

Thankyou in advance

monkeyupatree · Jan 06, 2008 11:53 pm

you can check out this thread.... https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.p ... ight=roofs

Leece · Jan 07, 2008 8:07 am

thanks for that, I probably could have found it myself :oops:

coljacqld · Jan 08, 2008 8:58 am

Hi Leece

I had a quick look at the other thread and though I would offer my 2 bobs. We have just started our building process and chose tiles. There was 2 reason one was cost colourbpound was about $3500 more with our builder. Secondly my hubby is a sparky so we will be doing any electrical over what came as standard. It will be alot easier to lift tiles to put in cables if needed rather that having to unscrew roof sheeting.

Just thought it might be another thing to keep in mind

Good Luck

Anne

Jet79 · Jan 08, 2008 1:53 pm

With our builder it was only an extra $1000 for colourbond. I prefer the look of tiles personally. My brother in law is a roof tiler and we asked same question. Here was his list.

Pros - More colours, streamlined look, sounds lovely when it rains.

Cons - They can rust, have to be re-painted every 5-10 years, if part of the roof gets damaged you have to replace the whole panel (happened to my mum, very expensive).

Jet

bec · Jan 08, 2008 2:20 pm

has anyone actually ever seen or heard of a colourbond roof being repainted?

Jet79 · Jan 08, 2008 2:24 pm

My Mum's has been done twice in 20 years, it is a light colour and stained really easily from surrounding trees.

DeeElle · Jan 08, 2008 2:57 pm

Jet79

With our builder it was only an extra $1000 for colourbond. I prefer the look of tiles personally. My brother in law is a roof tiler and we asked same question. Here was his list.

Pros - More colours, streamlined look, sounds lovely when it rains.

Cons - They can rust, have to be re-painted every 5-10 years, if part of the roof gets damaged you have to replace the whole panel (happened to my mum, very expensive).

Jet

Our first house had a CB red roof, hadnt been painted in over 20 yrs & it still looked great. It had possibly faded but as we hadn't seen the original it looked fine to us and the people we sold it to

Leece · Jan 09, 2008 7:36 am

thanks alot everyone. Will have to sit down and think with hubby and make a choice, then it is colors.......