Browse Forums Building A New House Re: first home builder....external colours? 2Aug 20, 2012 11:58 am Maybe white to match the windows and break up all the black colorbond? Re: first home builder....external colours? 4Aug 20, 2012 1:20 pm dhalphir Stay away from Colorbond for your roof unless you like standing near a window anytime you want to make a mobile phone call. Whilst the "faraday cage" effect can impact mobile phone reception, attributing poor mobile phone reception solely to a colorbond roof is nonsense. In any event, many tiled roofs have foil sarking which would have the exact same transmission properties as colorbond. I would be questioning the adequate coverage of my mobile phone provider before making statements about roofing material. Re: first home builder....external colours? 5Aug 20, 2012 1:49 pm On the upside will the colorbond roof help protects us from Energy Lifeforce Aliens? seriously, never had a problem with my mobile under a tin roof The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1612 Thanks Pulse, thats really helpful and very much appreciated. Also thanks for the pointer on sheathing, thats me watching too many american youtube videos! 6 2788 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16262 |