When building your dream home, one of the most important considerations you and your builder have is the type of roofing you choose. COLORBOND® steel is one of the most popular and widely used roofing choices for new homes right across Australia. But why are so many new Australian homes now built with COLORBOND® steel roofing and what are the advantages? In a nutshell, COLORBOND® is beautiful and durable, and has been tried and tested in harsh Australian conditions. Which means it’s made to continue looking fabulous year after year, delivering you long-life performance.

The beauty of a lasting impression

When first impressions are important, a COLORBOND® roof is designed to make a lasting statement for any home. Let’s start with the visual appeal and durability.

• Beautiful choices – you have a choice of 22 core colours in the range, with 6 in a premium matt finish. This gives you a roof colour that can set the perfect tone for your whole home.
• Mix and match – you have the flexibility to ‘mix and match’ colours with your choice of gutter, fascia and downpipes, all made from COLORBOND® steel for the overall desired look.
• Built to last – COLORBOND® is futureproofed through five layers of protection to provide long-lasting durability you can trust against our harsh Australian environment. The steel is coated in an industry leading enhanced corrosion-resistant Activate® technology*, then further enhanced with pre-treatment, primer and a baked-on topcoat.
• Passing every test – COLORBOND® steel undergoes corrosion testing, durability testing, application testing, and outdoor exposure testing to ensure it can withstand extremes of heat, cold, dust, rain, wind, and hail.
• Fully guaranteed – you have the added assurance of COLORBOND® steel being backed by a BlueScope warranty, along with many other robust building product warranties.

Comfortable, sustainable and easy to maintain.

Along with being beautiful to look at and exceptionally strong and long lasting, there are many other benefits to choosing COLORBOND® steel for your roofing. These include:

• Thermal comfort – the specially designed Thermatech® solar reflectance technology used with COLORBOND® steel, has the ability to reflect more of the sun’s heat on sunny days, so your air conditioning costs don’t go through the roof.*
• Sustainable – longer lasting COLORBOND® steel also helps to create a more sustainable ‘circular economy’, with the steel itself being 100% recyclable.
• Bushfire compliant – it can be used as part of a compliant system in bushfire prone areas.
• Low maintenance ­– looking after your COLORBOND® steel roofing is a breeze, with regular freshwater washing being an easy solution for prolonging its life and beautiful looks.

COLORBOND® is Arkadian’s roofing of choice 

All the benefits of COLORBOND® steel roofing considered; every Arkadian home features a COLORBOND® steel roof as a standard inclusion. This isn’t the case with all builders.

We also include additional roof insulation, made of a glasswool blanket adhered to foil facing. This reduces the risk of condensation in winter and radiant heat entering your home in summer. It can also reduce unwanted noise from heavy rain and other elements, as well as increase your roof’s fire resistance. A standard inclusion with Arkadian Homes – also not the case with all builders.

For more information on our COLORBOND® roofing options or any of our other inclusions, simply go to our contact details on this website.

*Results will depend on roof colour, level and location of insulation, type and location of building shape and function.