About

Designed by a roofer. For a problem he sees every week.

The Penenator wasn’t dreamed up in a boardroom. It was built on a roof, by the bloke who got sick of going back to fix the same leaks.

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Portrait of Shawn
on a roof
The Story

25 years of watching the same seals fail.

Shawn Ashford has been a qualified roof plumber for 25 years. He’s run forensic leak detection for insurance companies, walked thousands of roofs, and watched the same penetration seals fail in the same ways — perished rubber, pooled water, silicone that never stood a chance. The Penenator is what he built to fix it.

Every leak callout he ever attended started at a penetration. So instead of patching the symptom one more time, he re-engineered the whole flashing — lifting the seal onto a raised flat platform and diverting water around it, not into it.

Designed in Toowoomba. Manufactured by Forma3D in Tweed Heads using Modplas materials. Currently undergoing Australian Standards testing in Melbourne, with a patent application filed. Built for Australian roofs, by an Australian roofer.

"Penetration seals are the main source of leaks I find. So I built the thing that fixes it."

Shawn Ashford · Inventor
Built To Spec

Engineered, tested, going for Australian Standards.

01
25yrs
Roofing experience behind every choice
Shawn’s worked roof reports and forensic leak detection. Built from a quarter-century of seeing what fails.
02
PAT.
Australian patent application filed
Full specification covering the base, raised platform, and water-diversion engineering.
03
2026
Australian Standards testing
Currently undergoing AS testing in Melbourne. Code Mark certification in progress.
04
AU
Made in Australia from raw to finished
Designed in Toowoomba, moulded in Tweed Heads by Forma3D using Modplas materials.
No more patching

Built by roofers. Made to last.