Want your house to look sleek and modern? Long run steel roofing creates a much smoother and cleaner aesthetic for your home, which is one of the reasons it is so popular with architects and designers. Steel is much easier to work with and requires minimal maintenance, but keeps its shape, colour, and durability for a long time.
Replacing an old roof (especially one that has seen leaks) with long-run steel is a great way to increase the value of your home and it’s general curb appeal. A new sleek roof is enough to give an entire home a brand new first impression.
COLORSTEEL® roofing is designed, tested, and trusted for New Zealand’s weather conditions. With stations in outdoor sites across NZ and Australia, as well as accelerated laboratory testing, COLORSTEEL® undergoes rigorous testing for corrosion, durability and exposure. In fact there are more than 20,000 samples out at any given time across sites. From testing in wind and salt swept Muriwai, to alongside bubbling and sulfuric mud pools in Rotorua, COLORSTEEL®’s intense testing programme is just one of the important distinctions between COLORSTEEL® long run steel and other pre-painted long-run steel.
Along with ensuring COLORSTEEL® is designed to excel from a corrosion point of view, it’s also measured and tested for gloss and colour retention to ensure COLORSTEEL® colours will look great for decades to come. It’s also well known for its outstanding seismic performance. In the wake of the Christchurch Earthquakes, one of the clear messages coming from experts was the strong recommendation to use lightweight metal roofing, such as long run steel, over heavy tiled options.
There’s a range of COLORSTEEL® products to suit the environment of your home’s location - from moderate inland conditions to some of the more severe weather conditions we see in NZ, including those subject to higher atmospheric salt concentrations. For the most extreme environments, there’s COLORSTEEL Altimate®, which combines a marine grade aluminium substrate with the proven paint technology of COLORSTEEL®. We all know how rugged and wild our beautiful coastlines can be, but no matter where you are, or what the weather may bring, rest assured COLORSTEEL® has you covered.
Besides fighting against whatever the environment throws at it, COLORSTEEL® long-run steel’s long lifespan helps conserve resources and energy that may otherwise be invested in products with a shorter life span. COLORSTEEL® requires minimal maintenance helping to deliver a low carbon footprint over its useful life. It contains recycled content and as it is 100% recyclable, can also be recovered and recycled from demolished buildings resulting in almost no construction waste. As steel is infinitely recyclable, it is uniquely positioned to contribute to a circular economy.
Want to become a more eco-friendly home? COLORSTEEL® long run steel roofing is available in a variety of colours, including tones perfect for reflecting the sun’s heat, rather than absorbing it. This will in turn keep the building cooler in summer and could help save on energy costs over time. COLORSTEEL® has also been awarded the Environmental Choice NZ licence, and contributes points under the sustainable materials credit with New Zealand Green Building Council’s Home Star rating tool.
An investment now for protecting everything (and everybody) within your most important asset is worth the initial cost. Patch jobs on old roofs are often a false economy, with the patch up and any further repairs down the line being expensive due to the requirement of scaffolding each time, and a deteriorating roof can really impact the appearance of your property, not to mention the unseen damage a leaking roof can cause long before you notice the leak.
Over the years on your home, COLORSTEEL® long run roofing will keep its colour, shine, and durability. Being less susceptible to damage in even the harshest conditions, steel will likely dent at the worst, unlike concrete slate or terracotta tiles that chip, crack, and smash if their structure is compromised in bad weather.
If your home could benefit from COLORSTEEL® roofing, browse our full range of products, profiles, colours and more online or find your local COLORSTEEL® supplier today.