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.

  • 🦘min0nim🦘
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    7 months ago

    It’s mass that holds heat. Rammed earth is great if you don’t let it get too hot (so needs shading), or if it’s insulated (the best way).

    For almost all of Australia bar the tropical north, the best construction is insulated mass - ie cladding (lightweight or not), then a cavity, then loads of insulation and a Vapor membrane, then masonry.

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      7 months ago

      And my house currently has one of the four layers you suggest. I might just have to save your comment, i’d definitely missed the vapor layer and a cavity behind the cladding.