Rest assured, before your COLORSTEEL® goes up, it's been through more trials and tests than your home can ever throw at it.
The COLORSTEEL® you’ll choose for your home is the product of thousands of hours of rigorous research and testing in real life situations; environments that replicate the climatic extremes that prevail in many parts of New Zealand's beautiful, diverse and unique landscape.
This testing goes above and beyond the requirements outlined in AS/NZS 2728, the joint New Zealand and Australian standard governing pre-finished/pre-painted sheet metal products for interior and exterior building applications. It’s something we’ve been doing for years, over 40 in fact. Along with ensuring COLORSTEEL® is designed to excel from a corrosion point of view, we also measure and test gloss and colour retention to ensure your chosen colour will look great for decades to come.
We have samples undergoing corrosion testing, durability testing, application testing (replicating real life scenarios, to ensure we’re testing for the kind of conditions it would experience in place on your home) and outdoor exposure testing. From testing in wind and salt swept Muriwai, to our site alongside bubbling and sulfuric mud pools in Rotorua, COLORSTEEL®’s intense testing programme is just one of the important distinctions between COLORSTEEL® steel and other pre-painted steel – COLORSTEEL® is made, tested and trusted for NZ conditions.
Since the testing of COLORSTEEL® first begun, the team of scientists have learnt a few things. That’s hardly surprising, though, when you consider that they conduct more than 50,000 inspections on accelerated steel test panels every year, and that at any given time there are more than 20,000 samples out on exposure across our sites.
The rigour in and around these testing procedures has played a significant role in the ongoing quality, durability and appeal of COLORSTEEL® pre-painted steel.
The COLORSTEEL® team use in-house proprietary testing methodologies that are acknowledged as world-leading. They even go so far as to test competitive products to benchmark their performance and assure themselves that the COLORSTEEL® quality differential is being maintained.
COLORSTEEL®- New Zealand’s favourite roof, available in a range of profiles and colours is backed with robust warranties. In every respect, every product delivers on its promise, every single day. When you choose COLORSTEEL®, you can be sure it’s been tried and tested over and over again. And that, as simple as it seems, is precisely why you can trust it.