Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Colorbond roof 10Apr 12, 2016 4:19 pm Consider your surrounding landscape and environment. For example, the colour may be one of the COLORBOND® steel grey/green colours if your country style house with surroundings verandahs is located in a treed area. COLORBOND® steel Woodland Grey® or Pale Eucalypt® would be ideal. Alternatively you may choose to contrast the roof colour with the environment; Manor Red® would be a perfect choice in this case as it's also a traditional roof colour for a farmhouse. Choosing a roof colour for an outer suburban house may depend on several factors – the design of the house, the surrounding environment including the streetscape, houses nearby, other finishes already selected and your personal preferences. Jasper®, Monument®, Dune®, and Ironstone® are contemporary colours that co-ordinate extremely well with the popular composite style found in many suburbs. Before to make serious decisions, we must have fresh mind. On my website you can find a good way to cool! Re: Colorbond roof 13May 23, 2016 11:52 am Looks good to me Gems23. I've got a surfmist colourbond roof here. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Colorbond roof 14May 23, 2016 12:21 pm Check out my build for Basalt examples. Basalt looks different between shade and sun. My Noosa 23 Build - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72782 Re: Colorbond roof 15Jun 08, 2016 7:39 pm Sam1987 Hi all I am building a new house and tryjng to decide on roof colours. Would love to see pictures of surfmist, shale grey or basalt. I am concerned after driving around and looking at colours about how dirty the lights colours get and wondered if shale grey was better than surfmist for hiding dirt. TIA We are planning on Basalt for the roof and either Surfmist or Shale Grey for the garage doors. I figure the garage door will be easier to hose down/clean when dirty. Re: Colorbond roof 17Jun 12, 2016 10:25 am Dark colours will have an impact on the energy performance in summer, as Joker said, should be compensated for by better insulation. There fore to achieve a comparable level of energy performance the light roof will be lower cost. But personally I prefer the look of a darker roof, because it is "less visible". On my own house I have a flat roof with a parapet fascia all around with concealed box gutter so the roof is not visible unless you're 3 metres in the air! This might be an option for you, but does add cost. Don't get too concerned about dirt, in a new estate everything will get dirty until all the houses and landscaping is complete, then the dust will settle so to speak. I'm stating the obvious of course but the roof will clean itself whenever it rains. Re: Colorbond roof 20Jun 26, 2016 8:48 am arcachon I've heard people talk about a darker shade being hotter. Is their any data available on the variations between the colourbond colours on how much heat transfers through? This is a good article http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/innova ... port/60257 Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 10270 You should pressure clean your roof first and make sure the paint you buy also is anti mould. 4 18865 Hi all, Our boundary perimeter fences need replacing (3 sides). From everyone's experience, what would you install? Timber lapped and capped OR colorbond? Thank you. 0 2924 |