Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Building in Double Brick 2Jan 28, 2009 2:50 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Building in Double Brick 4Jan 28, 2009 4:02 pm Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: Building in Double Brick 5Jan 28, 2009 5:00 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Building in Double Brick 20Aug 27, 2012 7:56 pm Emicat Hmm well we were builders in NZ we have been in Perth for 12 months now so have experienced the heat waves and reasonable cold snap and we rent a double brick home. Our option on double brick is that it is like living in a pizza oven in the summer as the house never gets a chance to cool down and costs a fortune to cool with air con. In the winter it's like living in a fridge and it's warmer outside!! You just touch the interior rendered walls with the vacum and a big piece chips out whereas with plasterboard it would dent if you touched it hard enough and you could patch far easier as well. A timber frame home with linear board exterior and double glazed windows on driven piles will be our pick when we build with a huge water storage facility under the house so we don't have to pay for water!! timber frame house give you the ability to insulate to the max including sound proofing interior walls between bathrooms and bedrooms or theatre rooms and when it cools in the evening or the sea breeze comes in you just open the windows and the house cools straight away so therefore you are saving on power. We love Perth the opportunities it has given us but West Australians need to open their minds to timber framed homes, do the research you'll see I'm right. Emicat, You can't beat full brick houses. They are cool in summer, but as others have mentioned, they can be cool in winter. The idea is to use the sun (with the right amount of northern windows) to heat the house. The bricks will store the heat until the next day. Also, I don;t know where you got the idea that rendered walls chip easy. You can hit them with anythign and they stay OK, not like gyprock. Full brick also lasts the longest. Apart form the cost, full brick is a winer in low maintenance, comfort and wearability. Cheers, Casa Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 5 10477 Hi Kristy Around $1.7-1.8m or around $4,600/sqm. if you PM me your email I will send you a break up in a spreadsheet so you can get an understanding of the costs for… 1 9956 Double brick homes are the worst type of building conventions for the australian climate 1 1118 |