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Jun 8th 2003 | 1:18 pm
#16
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,430
Re: roofs
Originally posted by pommie bastard
Tin roofs here are not your shed roof by any means and are the way to go , tiles cannot take the weather here and are going out of fashion.
Lived here 9 years and I am fed up with excepting going backwards in money and jobs plus WA is a state set up for the animals who live off the mines not for us.
As for Kinross its sums up what is wrong with the suburbs here , built next to to the rubbish tip , no social side , no Pub infact bugger all apart from a faceless suburb.
Tin roofs here are not your shed roof by any means and are the way to go , tiles cannot take the weather here and are going out of fashion.
Lived here 9 years and I am fed up with excepting going backwards in money and jobs plus WA is a state set up for the animals who live off the mines not for us.
As for Kinross its sums up what is wrong with the suburbs here , built next to to the rubbish tip , no social side , no Pub infact bugger all apart from a faceless suburb.
Jun 9th 2003 | 12:41 am
#17
Squeaking Member
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 290
From: Bedfordale, Perth.
Re: good areas
Originally posted by pommie bastard
Most new homes here are now having tin roofs because they do not hold in the heat in summer and are less trouble than tiles which fade and crack in the heat , but what would a dreamer know?
Most new homes here are now having tin roofs because they do not hold in the heat in summer and are less trouble than tiles which fade and crack in the heat , but what would a dreamer know?
Well, that's what the builders told us anyway.....
And yes, the sound of rain on a tin roof is great. Unless it's been raining for the last 3 weeks....
Oh and sparks can get under steel if your cowboy builders dont plug the gaps properly....
Nearly forgot - watch out for fibro....mmm, asbestos, nice.....
Jun 9th 2003 | 1:29 am
#18
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Re: good areas
just watch out for the cowboy roofers who bodge the tin tiles before they bond it..my cousin spotted a fair few cracked ones? or something..and refused to cough up
in the suburbs on the central coast everyone has colorbond.
badgers
Nearly forgot - watch out for fibro....mmm, asbestos, nice..... [/QUOTE]
in the suburbs on the central coast everyone has colorbond.
badgers
Nearly forgot - watch out for fibro....mmm, asbestos, nice..... [/QUOTE]
Jun 9th 2003 | 12:30 pm
#19
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Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 7,037
From: Perth Arse end of the planet
Re: good areas
Originally posted by Anon E Mouse
Tiles have a higher 'thermal mass' than colourbond (or zincalume)steel and therefore keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in winter (as does your nice concrete slab). During the summer the house will heat up much quicker and in the winter it ooze heat with a steel roof. Of course, you really need a decent insulated loft space, something the builders here dont seem to know about and some decent heating (again something they dont seem to know about)
Well, that's what the builders told us anyway.....
And yes, the sound of rain on a tin roof is great. Unless it's been raining for the last 3 weeks....
Oh and sparks can get under steel if your cowboy builders dont plug the gaps properly....
Nearly forgot - watch out for fibro....mmm, asbestos, nice.....
Tiles have a higher 'thermal mass' than colourbond (or zincalume)steel and therefore keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in winter (as does your nice concrete slab). During the summer the house will heat up much quicker and in the winter it ooze heat with a steel roof. Of course, you really need a decent insulated loft space, something the builders here dont seem to know about and some decent heating (again something they dont seem to know about)
Well, that's what the builders told us anyway.....
And yes, the sound of rain on a tin roof is great. Unless it's been raining for the last 3 weeks....
Oh and sparks can get under steel if your cowboy builders dont plug the gaps properly....
Nearly forgot - watch out for fibro....mmm, asbestos, nice.....
Had both and you are about as wrong as you can get , tiles hold the heat and retain it at night the tin (colourbond) can be coated with a light colour and refects heat .
Never heard the rain thanks to insulation under the tin and in roof space , colourbond is the way to go as many are .
Jun 10th 2003 | 12:00 am
#20
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Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 916
From: Tampa, FL
Re: good areas
Tin schmin, get it right you guys. If you had a "tin" roof it would be rusted in 5 minutes. It is zincalume and it adds character to your home. The only problem is that it attracts lightning more than a tile roof. My house has been zapped twice.
Back to the original question as you have all gone way off track, I think the main areas I would not want to live in is North Perth/Northbridge, Lochridge. Other than that nowhere else (that I can think of at the mo) would bother me.
Back to the original question as you have all gone way off track, I think the main areas I would not want to live in is North Perth/Northbridge, Lochridge. Other than that nowhere else (that I can think of at the mo) would bother me.
