What does Wallaby look like?
BlueScope describes soft grey-brown tones, gentle and earthy. It says Wallaby sits well with brown timber, red-brown brick, concrete and blackened steel details. Its palettes pair it with Night Sky trims for a sharper edge, with Surfmist for a lighter one, or with pale Southerly.
Why a warm grey works over older brick
A cold blue-grey roof over orange or red brick can look like it came from a different house. Wallaby's brown undertone gives it something in common with the brick, so a re-roof tends to look planned rather than patched. That's handy if you're swapping old tiles for steel; see tile to Colorbond re-roofs.
Lay the sample sheet right against the brick, in daylight, before deciding. Next to a white wall it looks greyer; next to brick the brown comes through.
Heat and the coast
Heat-wise it's a middle-of-the-road roof. Its published solar absorptance is 0.64, level with the building code's ceiling for the elemental route on new homes in zones 1 to 5. Worked out from that figure, it's medium in NSW and was dark under the older national bands.
On the coast, Wallaby is one of the Ultra colours, with the heavier AM150 coating BlueScope recommends from 100 to 200 m of breaking surf. Calm water counts differently: BlueScope treats Williamstown and the Yarra in Melbourne as calm, where standard Colorbond is fine at any distance.
What we'd suggest
On a red or brown brick home, we'd put Wallaby near the top of the list and look at it beside a sheet of a cooler grey like Basalt, so you can see what the warmth adds. Near the beach, ask for it in Ultra. We aren't affiliated with BlueScope; Colorbond is its trademark.
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