Roo Roofing Blog

In a city like Brisbane that’s regularly hit by severe thunderstorms, heavy rainfalls, and striking sunshine, your roof has an important role to play in protecting your home from damage. 

How you build your roof can have a big impact on the temperature inside your home. Find out what roofing elements make the difference. 

The Inuits of Canada were onto something when they first got into insulating their homes. Icy domes, also known as igloos, enabled the comfort and warmth of up to 16 degrees Celsius - doesn’t sound too warm but putting it perspective, outside temperatures got as cold as -45 degrees Celsius! Tracing back through history, we can see these homes as one of the first shelters that considered insulation. Constructed from whalebone and hides these homes paved the way for modern technology to catapult homes in both colder and warmer regions to provide optimal conditions to live in. Insulation keeps the heat outside during summer, and helps to trap valuable warmth indoors when it’s freezing outside, this lessens the need for any additional heating or cooling.

Summer has already started and if it the reports anything to go by, this year will be a scorcher. With the temperatures rising, many of us are going to head indoors, preferably with some aircon going on. While a cool could certainly be attained by turning your roof into a green roof, there also other ways to have a "cool" roof. In this post, we share some of the factors on how to keep your roof cool.

Winter is here! While it might not snow here in Brisbane, or anywhere in Queensland, it can still get cold during winter. The all time low in Brisbane was recorded in 2014 at a mere 2.6 degress Celsius - luckily it’s not like that often, but can average during July around 15 degrees Celsius, and nights a cool 8 degrees Celsius. Also fortunately the cold months are only few here - so what can you do to your home to keep warm in winter but still cool in summer? Yep, that’s right - insulation. In this post, we talk about the different types of roof insulation materials.

Insulation is one the most effective ways to improve the energy efficiency of a home. Insulation acts as a barrier to heat flow. Cellulose Fibre Insulators consist of recycled newspaper pulp mixed with borax and boric acid. In this post, we take a closer look at the most efficient on the market and our preferred insulation material - Cellulose Fibre. Why? Well, read on as we share some of the benefits of having Roo Roofing Cellulose Fibre as an insulator for your roof.