Sarking & Resarking Canberra

🔥What sarking actually does

Sarking is easy to overlook because you never see it once the roof's on, but it does a lot of quiet work. The reflective foil bounces summer heat away from the roof space and helps hold winter warmth in, which matters in a city with Canberra's temperature swing. It acts as a second water barrier, catching wind driven rain that gets past the tiles or sheets before it can reach your ceiling. And it keeps dust and embers out of the roof cavity. On a re-roof it costs little to include and pays back every season.

🔍Does your roof have sarking?

Plenty of older Canberra homes were built without sarking, or with an early foil that's since torn, sagged or perished. If your roof space gets baking hot in summer and freezing in winter, or you've had dust and the odd wind driven drip in the cavity, there's a good chance the sarking is missing or failed. We can tell you during any inspection or re-roof, and re-sark as part of the work.

• ✔️Roof space that's extreme in both summer and winter
• ✔️Dust building up in the roof cavity
• ✔️Wind driven drips that never quite become a 'real' leak
• ✔️An older home that predates sarking as standard

❄️Sarking and Canberra winters

Canberra's winters are the case for sarking. The reflective layer, paired with proper ceiling insulation, slows the heat your home loses through the roof, the single biggest escape route for warmth. Adding or upgrading both while the roof is open during a re-roof is one of the most cost effective comfort improvements you can make to an older Canberra home, and you feel it on the first cold night.

🛠️When we sark or re-sark

1. 1

   During a re-roof

   New sarking is laid as standard over the battens before the new tile or metal goes on.

2. 2

   During a restoration

   Where tiles are lifted for major work, we can re-sark sections that have failed.

3. 3

   As an upgrade

   We advise on adding sarking and insulation together while the roof's open, for the biggest winter gain.