Why gutter mesh is important
Gutter Mesh an incredibly effective tool in protecting your property against a wide range of environmental factors including flooding, hail, snow, pests, vermin, leaves, rust and corrosion.
The benefits don’t stop there, as it also reduces the costs and risks associated with gutter maintenance and cleaning.
Consider the strength of your mesh in weather events
When deciding on the type of mesh, it often comes down to aluminium or steel. In many ways, aluminium is an effective material for everyday use when the conditions are favourable.
However, when your property is exposed to the elements, the conditions are far from ideal, and you’ll want steel mesh to bolster your gutter protection. In all categories that are relevant to protecting your property, steel emerges victorious, and we have the results to prove it.
Steel is stronger and more durable.
Simply put, your mesh needs to hold up to the challenging conditions that weather events present. We strength test all of our gutter mesh to make sure it’s fit for your property, in addition to conducting independent laboratory-based tests to measure its strength in different ways.
Steel is more resistant to punctures.
Having damaged gutter mesh is as bad as not having it at all. Punctures from low-hanging branches or falling hailstones can impact how your gutter mesh functions and the worst part is, that you often don’t find out until it’s too late.
Our steel mesh is our strongest and most durable product line. We have tested the puncture resistance by simulating hail and the impact a falling branch may have. Our steel mesh consistently demonstrated superior results.
Steel is more resistant to tearing and can bear more load.
In any installation, the connections between the mesh and the gutter itself are the most vulnerable. If your mesh breaks under the stress of the elements, your first barrier is of gutter protection is compromised, and the risk of further property damage increases.
We tested our mesh installed with different trim componentry and steadily increased the weight on the mesh until it tore from its fastenings. In this experiment, our steel mesh demonstrated superior results across all tests, and using the Mesh Lock gutter trim significantly increased the strength of all our mesh options.
Our 2mm steel mesh is compliant to all BAL ratings
If your property is in a bushfire-prone area, you’ll need to know the BAL (Bushfire Attack Level) rating for your property and have ember guard-compliant mesh. Our 2mm steel mesh is compliant to Australian standards for ember guards and BAL zones (BAL 12.5, 19, 29, 40 and FZ).
Protect your property with confidence.
Now that you’ve read through the above factors, there is no question that steel is the superior choice.
Even if you just consider it from maintenance perspective – steel mesh is proven to be more resilient and won’t need to be checked on after every weather event – you can set and forget.
Do it once, do it right. That’s peace of mind.
Build your steel Mesh Kit today
Bolster your gutter protection efforts today. Our Mesh Kit Builder was created as a quick, and easy-to-follow tool that breaks down the process of building a mesh kit into bite-sized pieces.
This allows you to seamlessly choose the correct kit, inclusive of components, mesh, width, and colours tailored specifically to your property, and the requirements to protect it from the elements.