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I live in rural Australia. Corrugated iron is everywhere, and I love it. It is durable, lasts a really long time, is easy to repurpose. I know an older gentlema

I live in rural Australia. Corrugated iron is everywhere, and I love it. It is durable, lasts a really long time, is easy to repurpose. I know an older gentleman here who built a really nice barn out of some repurposed corrugated iron roofing. I'm about to build a shed for a home office, and will use corrugated iron. It is cheap, easy to work with, comes in decent colors (e.g. the ColorBond brand in Australia), is strong without being overengineered. It's great stuff.

phillc73 5y ago
I grew up in rural Australia (now a long way from there) and one of my memory triggers is the sound of old corrugated iron ‘ticking’ and ‘pinging’ after a day in the hot sun.
- dkdbejwi383 5y ago
  Yeah, that and the lovely tap-tap-tap of the rain on a tin roof
  - taneq 5y ago
    There's even a song about it. :) (OK maybe more than just one...)
  - lostlogin 5y ago
    I’m a New Zealander and laughed at this - of course the Australian remembers what it does with heat. Over here it’s massive rainfall, not heat, which generates the noise.
somishere 5y ago
Agreed. Colourbond on our house and shed, and most in the street. Next door's 40yo corrugated shed roof is a work of rust orange beauty. The sounds on a hot day too ... unmistakable and so of the place :)