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.

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      7 months ago

      The rammed earth i’ve seen has been thicker than two bricks, and had no cavity. Maybe the properties are similar, but magnified?

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          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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            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.

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      This is what we’re starting to think about doing at mine. At the moment thinking some kind of faux limestone cladding/half brick outer shell. Not only to hide some extra insulation, but to hide the boring cream bricks. But in the early planning days still.

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    Same in QLD. My friends were complaining about their double brick, and how it holds heat for days and days, making it unbearable.

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        They are yes. There’s a current trend where new builds are emulating the older look with weatherboard appearance. But, it’s all modern materials now, and inside they’re nothing like the beautiful old girls of the past. Much more liveable though, with all the mod cons.

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      What a lovely utilitarian idea! Seriously though, i reckon theres someone out there who has used these bricks in a ridiculously cool way. I’ll have to wait for the Grand designs episode i suppose. /j

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        pretty much all of hungary (not sure about other countries, but i’d expect at least the rest of central europe too) uses these types of bricks for almost everything. it’s not a new thing either, we’ve had these all my life. not sure when they were introduced.

        but i’ve never seen these types used by anglo nations, and it’s always bugged me.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.