FAQs

For information on how to keep your COLORBOND® steel looking great, view our page Maintain COLORBOND® steel and ZINCALUME® steel. If you think you may have fungus growing on the surface, view our page Identify and Remove Fungus.

A number of builders have display homes across Australia featuring COLORBOND® steel. You can find your closest from our display home locator.

This is usually a result of the use of touch up paint on the sheeting. The manufacturing process which gives COLORBOND® steel its colour and gloss retention properties means its surface weathers differently to air-drying paint. After weathering, areas that have been touched up will look different and may result in a blotchy appearance.

Standard COLORBOND® steel is the product you're most likely to see on the majority of applications and locations across Australia. However, there are some environments and applications for which it isn't suited, and for these BlueScope Steel has developed specialised products. COLORBOND® Ultra steel is made for more severe environments, such as those exposed to industrial emissions or close to the sea. COLORBOND® Metallic steel has a unique metallic paint finish and is commonly used for prestige projects. You can find out more by viewing our pages: Specifying for marine and industrial environments and COLORBOND® Metallic finish.

COLORBOND® steel combines the corrosion resistance of a ZINCALUME® steel base with a durable, oven baked paint finish. Find out more on How It Is Made.

Green Star™ is a voluntary rating system developed to evaluate the environmental design, efficiency and performance of Australian buildings. The system is not used to evaluate individual building materials or products. For more view our page on Sustainability.

A whole range of products are manufactured by a number of rollformers using our COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME®, GALVASPAN® and DECKFORM® steels. You can find technical details and CAD files for the major rollformers from SteelSelect.com. SteelSelect.com provides technical information on a wide range of steel building products from major manufacturers such as Stramit, Metroll, Steeline, Fielders and BlueScope Lysaght. Products include roofing, walling, purlins, girts and structural decking made from COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME®, GALVASPAN® and DECKFORM® steels.

All the major paint manufacturing companies have colour matching codes to produce paint that will match to the COLORBOND® steel colours. Simply quote the trademarked COLORBOND® steel colour name and they should be able to provide you with paint to match, allowing you to paint trims and accessories to fit in with your COLORBOND® steel products. For further detail on overpainting (including touch-ups), Download Technical Bulletin TB 02 - Overpainting and Restoration of COLORBOND® prepainted steel sheet. Please be aware that when matching paint using new colour codes to older weathered material, there could be a difference in the colour due to fading of the existing product.

The current colour names were introduced with a new Super Polyester paint system designed to keep the finish looking newer for longer.  Many of these colours will match the old colours when both are new, but the two will differ after weathering.

Prices will vary depending upon the manufacturer you choose.  Bluescope Steel makes COLORBOND® steel as flat sheet rolled into coils.  It's our rollformer customers who turn this 'raw' material into the various profiles and products you're familiar with. Please use our Find a Supplier to find a rollformer in your area who will be able to help you with information on pricing of their products.