Polycarbonate Roofing- What brands
I have to replace quite a bit of the old crappy fibreglass roofing, somewhere near 100 lineal metres. Laserlite is of course the "known" brand, but I was wondering whether some of the cheaper ones are as good?
Home hardware recently had solartuff polycarbonate roofing on sale for $9 per metre, and laserlite is around $14.50/m. Has anyone had any experience with these cheaper options. Do they really work out cheaper long term?
I spoke to one of the blokes at Mitre 10 a while back when they had solartuff on special, and he said that it was rubbish and cheap and nasty. He said it needed extra battens to support it. Extra battens doesn't worry me much, I have a cheap supply of timber.
Would I be disappointed by trying to save $500+ dollars? Will it cost more in the long run? Or is it just a lesser known brand, with less profit margin for the seller?
Polycarbonate roof sheeting
What did you finish up using? I am curious because I got a quote today for a pergola (wood, of course) from a company which uses Ampelite Solarsafe at around $14 / metre. I hadn't looked at the price of Laserlite for a while and found that it has gone past $20. Given the strength of the Australian $, I was abit surprised.
Les Harris