by canroo05 | Oct 27, 2026 | Roof Restoration
Every summer we get the same call. Someone in a single storey brick house in Kambah or Belconnen tells us the back bedrooms are unbearable by four in the afternoon, the air conditioner is running flat out, and they have seen ads for heat reflective roof paint. Is it...
by canroo05 | Oct 16, 2026 | Roof Restoration
Most calls we get about metal roofs start the same way. Someone runs a hand along the bottom of a downpipe, or brushes against the gutter, and their fingers come away covered in a fine coloured powder. Then they look up and notice the roof that was a crisp deep green...
by canroo05 | Oct 9, 2026 | Roof Repairs, Roof Restoration
Here is a call we get after almost every big windy storm. Water has come through the ceiling, the homeowner expects the worst, and when we get up on the roof we find one cracked tile. That’s it. One tile. On a roof with sarking underneath, that crack would most...
by canroo05 | Oct 6, 2026 | Roof Restoration
We get a version of this call fairly often. A neighbour’s roof has just been restored and looks brand new, and the caller wants the same result. Then comes the question most people don’t think to ask: “Is mine even the same kind of tile?” Quite...
by canroo05 | Sep 25, 2026 | Roof Restoration
The call usually goes something like this. Someone has had three roofers through, the old tiles are cracked and porous, and the quotes for a new roof are nowhere near each other. One is a single line with a total. Another runs to two pages. The third is somewhere in...
by canroo05 | Sep 18, 2026 | Roof Restoration
You’ve probably spotted it from the driveway, or from a neighbour’s upstairs window. The southern side of the roof has gone dark green, maybe blotched with grey-white lichen, while the sunny side still looks close to its old colour. That split down the...