Roofers in Golden Grove, Adelaide
Golden Grove is a master-planned suburb in the City of Tea Tree Gully, laid out in the 1980s and 90s on the foothills with curving streets, reserves and the Golden Grove Village centre. Because it was built in one push, its roofs age in step and the same faults appear street by street.
What usually goes wrong on Golden Grove roofs
- Rusted valley irons in the long valleys of the complex hipped roofs, made worse by gum leaf litter holding moisture
- Concrete tiles that have lost their surface finish and are absorbing water after thirty to forty years
- Cracked cement bedding on the many hips and ridges from thermal cycling
- Backed-out screws and chalked pale Colorbond on the later-stage homes
- Solar penetrations that were sealed rather than flashed, leaking in heavy rain
Local notes from the roofers
Golden Grove was built as a planned estate from the mid-1980s into the 1990s, so the roofs are remarkably consistent: concrete tiles, hipped and often complex, on brick veneer homes with valleys everywhere. The same problems show up street by street as the roofs pass thirty and forty years. The tiles have lost their surface finish and are absorbing water, moss grows on the shaded south-facing pitches, and the cement bedding on the many hips and ridges has cracked from thermal cycling. Rusted valley irons are the leading leak, made worse by the gum leaf litter that collects in the long valleys and holds moisture against the steel. Colorbond became common in the later stages toward The Golden Way and the hills face, and there the screws are backing out and the pale colours are showing chalking. The suburb is on the exposed side of the Tea Tree Gully foothills, in the corridor where spring hail cells tend to run, and the estates have plenty of solar systems with penetrations that were never flashed properly. Steep driveways and split-level homes make ladder access harder than on the plains.
Housing and roof types in Golden Grove
A planned estate from the mid-1980s into the 1990s of brick veneer homes under hipped concrete tile roofs with long valleys, with Colorbond becoming common in the later stages toward The Golden Way and the hills face, and split-level homes on the sloping blocks.
