Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Roof colours - please help!! 5Oct 30, 2014 9:07 am Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Roof colours - please help!! 6Oct 30, 2014 9:11 am http://boostaoakfordsa.wordpress.com Site works: 26/8/14 Trench: 2/9/14 Slab: 8/9/14 Frame: 18/9/14 Bricks: 24/10/14 2nd fix: 24/11/14 Handover: End Feb 2015 Re: Roof colours - please help!! 7Oct 30, 2014 10:07 am Thanks everyone. He is pretty stuck on shale grey roof and a dark gutter (which I do not like) but I get his point about the dark gutter allowing a dark downpipe to blend in better with our dark bricks.... but I like the idea of surfmist roof and shale grey gutters, just not sure he will.... Boratt- we have to have PVC downpipes due to water tanks, so hoping I can get square downpipes/pops. Is the 100mm just for aesthetics? Or another purpose? Cheers Re: Roof colours - please help!! 8Oct 30, 2014 10:08 am Thanks everyone. He is pretty stuck on shale grey roof and a dark gutter (which I do not like) but I get his point about the dark gutter allowing a dark downpipe to blend in better with our dark bricks.... but I like the idea of surfmist roof and shale grey gutters, just not sure he will.... Boratt- we have to have PVC downpipes due to water tanks, so hoping I can get square downpipes/pops. Is the 100mm just for aesthetics? Or another purpose? Cheers Re: Roof colours - please help!! 9Oct 30, 2014 10:53 am kella_57 Boratt- we have to have PVC downpipes due to water tanks, so hoping I can get square downpipes/pops. Is the 100mm just for aesthetics? Or another purpose? Round downpipes allow the water to flow better through them, rather than the square/rectangular ones to, especially when it turns corners. The 100mm being larger than 90mm allows more water to pass through them as well, which is why I suggested you get the 100mm droppers put in to the gutters, as they'll just put in 90mm ones by default... you have to tell them what you want, or they'll go with the marginally cheaper.... if you have say 10 downpipes, it'll cost you around $20-30 more for 100mm over 90mm. Depending upon the height of your water tank, and therefore how high up the downpipes the water gets held (charged system), then you need to consider that if you have dark coloured downpipes, any water in them will heat up and any bacteria in there will love the warmth. Since you are having water tanks, I would strongly suggest that if they are above ground, that they are light in colour for that same reason, particulary if they are poly tanks. A mate of mine has green poly tanks for all of his house water, including as drinking water, and last summer with the pollen from the trees falling and being washed in to his tank, the pollen in the water started to ferment, requiring him to drain all the water and replace it with tanked in water... meanwhile 2km down the road at our old home, our poly tank that is classic cream in colour and in full sunlight all day, even though there are trees nearby, had no issues at all, and whilst not fridge cold, the water was quite drinkable. You did mention water tanks, but are you in a location where you have to use your tank for general household and potable uses, or is just solely for watering the garden only ? There are other threads on homeone that talk about tank water, and SaveH2O is a major contributor to those threads. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Roof colours - please help!! 14Oct 31, 2014 3:34 pm bpratt kella_57 Boratt- we have to have PVC downpipes due to water tanks, so hoping I can get square downpipes/pops. Is the 100mm just for aesthetics? Or another purpose? Round downpipes allow the water to flow better through them, rather than the square/rectangular ones to, especially when it turns corners. The 100mm being larger than 90mm allows more water to pass through them as well, which is why I suggested you get the 100mm droppers put in to the gutters, as they'll just put in 90mm ones by default... you have to tell them what you want, or they'll go with the marginally cheaper.... if you have say 10 downpipes, it'll cost you around $20-30 more for 100mm over 90mm. Depending upon the height of your water tank, and therefore how high up the downpipes the water gets held (charged system), then you need to consider that if you have dark coloured downpipes, any water in them will heat up and any bacteria in there will love the warmth. Since you are having water tanks, I would strongly suggest that if they are above ground, that they are light in colour for that same reason, particulary if they are poly tanks. A mate of mine has green poly tanks for all of his house water, including as drinking water, and last summer with the pollen from the trees falling and being washed in to his tank, the pollen in the water started to ferment, requiring him to drain all the water and replace it with tanked in water... meanwhile 2km down the road at our old home, our poly tank that is classic cream in colour and in full sunlight all day, even though there are trees nearby, had no issues at all, and whilst not fridge cold, the water was quite drinkable. You did mention water tanks, but are you in a location where you have to use your tank for general household and potable uses, or is just solely for watering the garden only ? There are other threads on homeone that talk about tank water, and SaveH2O is a major contributor to those threads. Thanks Bpratt, We don't HAVE to have tank water for general use but we do have to have it for RFS requirements (15,000ltr) so thought we'd get a bigger one and use it for laundry/toilet/garden so would you agree dark Downpipes would be OK in this instance? Our tank will be a 30,000ltr above ground tank, shale grey in colour. Good point about the square/round downpipes and the 90/100mm Re: Roof colours - please help!! 15Oct 31, 2014 3:47 pm Your pics look awesome! Roof looks really good! Hubby wanted to know was there a reason you chose to go the same colour for the roof gutter and different fascia instead of same roof and facia and different gutter like he is wanting? I think that going a random colour sandwiched in between a light roof and facia would look weird....I like your idea as the the downpipes will blend in better! I probably just a matter of opinion....but If I had a good reason I might be able to change his mind. Re: Roof colours - please help!! 16Oct 31, 2014 7:16 pm kella_57 Haha Tomcat, you sound like my husband, he's in LOVE with our bricks. We've only got the garage bricked up so far and they're not even cleaned yet but he just loves them! Lol We chose cream (light) bricks and mushroom (mid colour) roof and light colour cladding for part of our first story. I wanted our porch/entry and overhead balcony in Blue Steel Flash to contrast. That small amount would have cost us $6k! As much as I was desperate for them, I passed them over for the $450 option -- an el cheapo slurry 'aubergine' brick. Sobz! Re: Roof colours - please help!! 17Oct 31, 2014 9:09 pm Option 2 sounds great to me, basalt and shale grey would go together really well. Shale grey is still light enough to be efficient heat wise too. Building a Sierra on the Gold Coast https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68899 Full timeline on Pg 1 Settlement: 13/05/14 Retaining Walls: 20/06/14 Site Start: 02/07/14 Re: Roof colours - please help!! 18Oct 31, 2014 9:26 pm StephyD Option 2 sounds great to me, basalt and shale grey would go together really well. Shale grey is still light enough to be efficient heat wise too. Thanks Stephy D, I think that might be what we'll go. He originally wanted ironstone but think the me "basalt" colour is a bit softer. Open to any other idea too! Re: Roof colours - please help!! 19Oct 31, 2014 9:30 pm kella_57 Your pics look awesome! Roof looks really good! Hubby wanted to know was there a reason you chose to go the same colour for the roof gutter and different fascia instead of same roof and facia and different gutter like he is wanting? I think that going a random colour sandwiched in between a light roof and facia would look weird....I like your idea as the the downpipes will blend in better! I probably just a matter of opinion....but If I had a good reason I might be able to change his mind. There certainly was a reason. I didn't want the gutters to stand out and I didn't want the roof gutters and downpipes to all blend into one, so gutters and roof went same so they blended and then fascia down went monument to blend with the bricks. The reason for starting at the fascia level was I wanted the colour broken up but I've never liked the gutters a different colour to the roof. I think it looks awesome done this way, I'm really happy with the way it turned out and it's different to everything else in our street (we are also the only house with a light roof) Re: Roof colours - please help!! 20Oct 31, 2014 10:08 pm kella_57 Thanks Bpratt, We don't HAVE to have tank water for general use but we do have to have it for RFS requirements (15,000ltr) so thought we'd get a bigger one and use it for laundry/toilet/garden so would you agree dark Downpipes would be OK in this instance? Our tank will be a 30,000ltr above ground tank, shale grey in colour. At least it won't be a dark coloured one then. Not too sure about laundry if you get tree pollen fermenting in the tank, but toilets and garden it would be fine. But definately do yourself a favour and go for the larger round downpipes if you can to maximise what you get in to your tank. Just don't forget the tank overflow, and where that will go to. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. 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