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What is the difference between corrugated iron and corrugated zincalume?
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∙ 12y ago
Corrugated iron is the parent material - usually with the traditional form of curved corrugations - but probably today comes in a number of variations on the size of these.
Traditionally corrugated iron was zinc coated - known as galvanised iron. The zinc acts as a protective coating as it reacts chemically with the parent iron (which gives the strength) when this gets damaged or scratched or begins to deteriorate.
Zincalum is a more modern invention and is an alloy made up of zinc and aluminum and behaves in much the same way as a zinc coating to protect the parent iron but because the zinc is in a body containing aluminum, it does not erode away at the same rate as pure zinc. Therefore the corrugated iron coated in zincalum will last much longer - maybe five times longer I believe.
So they both do the basic roofing job but the expectation for life of the product so far as corrosion resistance is greatly improved.
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