We're a Merimbula-based roofing business. Our office sits on Short Street, our crew lives in town, and most of the homes we work on are within a 10-minute drive of where we have our morning coffee. If you're in Merimbula, you're our backyard.
Merimbula is where we're based and where the bulk of our work happens. The town's housing stock is a mix of 1970s and 1980s brick-and-tile builds up around Berrambool and Mirador, newer Colorbond homes through Tura Beach and the lake foreshore, and a string of holiday units along the headland between Short Point and Spencer Park. Most of the older Merimbula roofs we look at are either terracotta tile that's started fretting or first-generation Colorbond that's coming to the end of its coastal life. Both have a similar story: 30+ years in salt air is about all you get before the surface starts to fail.
We do new roof installations, full re-roofs (Colorbond Ultra is what we'd usually spec on a Merimbula home given the proximity to the lake and the ocean), roof repairs, leak diagnosis after East Coast Lows, and full restoration on tile and metal roofs where the structure is sound but the surface is past it. We've worked on homes the whole way around the lake, from Berrambool through to Pambula Beach side, including a fair number of jobs along the Sapphire Coast Drive where the salt exposure is at its worst. If you can see Top Lake or Bottom Lake from your roof, you're in the corrosion zone, and we'll tell you what that means for your material choice when we quote.
Being based on Short Street means we can get to you fast. A roof leak in Merimbula at 7am usually means we've had eyes on it by lunchtime the same day. We're not driving down from Bega or up from Eden. We're driving across town.
Salt air does specific things to a Merimbula roof that an inland roofer never sees. BlueScope's own coastal performance guidance is straightforward: standard Colorbond's warranty drops to zero on any home within 100 metres of the ocean or salt water, and they recommend washing the roof every six months in coastal zones to flush salt deposits off the coating. Most homeowners we meet have never been told this.
The four failure modes we see across Merimbula are the same four every time. Rust streaks under the fastener heads (the screws corrode first because the cap is the highest exposed point, then water finds the gap). Lichen and moss colonies on the southern face, where the sun never dries the roof out, holding moisture against the coating twenty-four hours a day. Paint peel along the gutter edge after about fifteen years, because the drip line is where salt water sits longest between rain events. And on the older terracotta-tiled Merimbula homes, fretting, where the tile surface crumbles and grit washes into the gutters after rain.
For any Merimbula home within five kilometres of the coast (which is most of them), we'd spec Colorbond Ultra. It's the marine-grade option with significantly better salt-air resistance than standard Colorbond, and on a 25 to 30-year cost-of-ownership basis it's usually the right call. We'll put the grade we're recommending, and why, in writing on your quote.
Storm-wise, the June to August East Coast Low season is the one that does the damage. The May 2025 East Coast Low brought flooding right through the Far South Coast and we were on roofs across Merimbula the week after, mostly fixing flashings and ridge caps that had lifted in the wind. If you've had a storm and you're not sure what's going on up there, call us. We'll come and take a look.
Real homes, real local work. If you'd like a reference from a Merimbula owner, ask when we quote and we'll put you in touch.
A meaningful share of homes in Merimbula are owned by people who live in Sydney or Canberra and use the place as a weekender or holiday rental. We do a lot of work for owners who can't be on site. The setup is straightforward: we do the on-site inspection, send you the quote in writing, and once you're happy we book in the start date. We send photo updates at the start, middle and end of every working day so you can see progress without having to drive down. The handover happens with whoever you've nominated, your property manager, a neighbour, or just photos plus a phone call if that's what works for you.
If you've had a storm and your tenant or property manager has flagged damage, give us a call. We can be on the roof in Merimbula the same day in most cases, and we'll send you photos and a written report before we touch anything.
We'd had three other roofers look at the leak before Merimbula Roofing. They were the first ones who actually went up and inspected the whole thing instead of guessing. Fixed it the first time.
Quoted exactly what they said they would. Showed up on the day they said. Cleaned up properly at the end of each day. Roof looks better than the day we bought the place.
We're in Canberra, the house is in Tathra. They sent us photos at the end of each day and the job came in on the quoted price. Made the whole thing painless.
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