Browse Forums Home Finance Re: Feedback on Zincalume roof 10Oct 05, 2009 2:02 pm It would be interesting to know if it's changed but the issue was it was too reflective but I have seen houses with a similar although more modern look but they seem to have some type of coating to make them look quite dull so i cant tell if they're colourbonded or have some other coating to dull them down. It would be a great look in bayswater though so if there's anywhere you could do it that would be the place Re: Feedback on Zincalume roof 11Oct 21, 2009 2:04 pm I am building in Bassendean, WA, the builder listed Colorbond as standard, but I chose Zincalume instead as it is cheaper and has better thermal properties. My site is near the airport, but not on a flightpath, I checked with the council and they said there are no restrictions on using Zincalume. My parents used Zincalume on their house in Shenton Park, WA, built ~7 years ago, again, no problem. Zincalume is every bit as robust as Colorbond, if not more, think of Colorbond as Zincalume + paint. You can see here that the only things used on the Zincalume to create Colorbond are primers to ensure paint adhesion and UV protection and abrasion resistance for the paint itself: http://www.colorbond.com/index.cfm?objectId=8FD7DDF9-E507-5411-2B2C1F48E5D42BE6 Re: Feedback on Zincalume roof 12Oct 21, 2009 2:57 pm We are also in Perth and used zincalume on our first build which was 10 years ago now. I drove past the house the other day and the zincalume roof still looks good. The neighbours on either side had a dark green and a dark blue roof and 10 years on both have faded quite noticeably. Re: Feedback on Zincalume roof 13Oct 22, 2009 3:55 pm Hydaral I am building in Bassendean, WA, the builder listed Colorbond as standard, but I chose Zincalume instead as it is cheaper and has better thermal properties. My site is near the airport, but not on a flightpath, I checked with the council and they said there are no restrictions on using Zincalume. My parents used Zincalume on their house in Shenton Park, WA, built ~7 years ago, again, no problem. Zincalume is every bit as robust as Colorbond, if not more, think of Colorbond as Zincalume + paint. You can see here that the only things used on the Zincalume to create Colorbond are primers to ensure paint adhesion and UV protection and abrasion resistance for the paint itself: http://www.colorbond.com/index.cfm?objectId=8FD7DDF9-E507-5411-2B2C1F48E5D42BE6 great to know... thanks very much ~*~Moved in on the 16th April 2011~*~ Hi, I have an area of zincalume cladding encasing a number of external downpipes. Unfortunately one of them has been permanently stained by some diluted phosphoric acid -… 0 973 As title suggests, looking at using the interlocking Pentablock stacked stone products to replace failing timber retaining… 0 18378 |