Short, but nice article on double brick housing in WA. It’ll be interesting to see how the home construction industry here changes in the coming decades.
Short, but nice article on double brick housing in WA. It’ll be interesting to see how the home construction industry here changes in the coming decades.
Of course! I’m thinking too locally, i’ve even seen people building with these types of bricks in Europe!
Yeah, i’m not 100% sure. But the brick look, with good tuck-pointing has been a popular style, see below for a cool example. Maybe it’s something to do with rendering not being available or popular in anglo countries.
ah yeah, you cant leave these thermo bricks exposed, they look absolutely dogshit. especially as they make you immediately think “unfinished house, oh no”. it’s like seeing exposed house wrapping or OSB…
as for rendering not being popular, that’s the other thing. why isnt it? decorative bricks and no rendering, my two biggest questions about the “anglo” building industry.
I had to look up what OSB is ( Oriented Strand Board). We don’t get much of anybof that stuff here. I’d say its because the weather has rarely required a fully encased house.
Rendering is way more popular in Perth in the last 20 odd years than in other times. I think if you had double brick it was a status symbol so you want to show the nice uniform bricks off. Maybe it’s something about a brick houses perceived permanence? But i don’t really know.