Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Aug 11, 2009 12:13 pm I need some pretty quick advice regarding rendered blueboard. I looked at a house on the weekend to buy and noticed it is rendered blueboard, the entire house. (double storey townhouse style). The agent has confirmed this is what it is, no bricks underneath. Given this house is in the high $700K's, I wanted to know if this is a cheap and nasty way of building. If it's not brick underneath, what are the insulation properties going to be like?? Hard/expensive to heat? I'm trying to figure out if this is worth it. I don't want to be maintaining it constantly and having it look crap in a few years time. Does blueboard sag/get damaged by elements easily?? Re: Cheap and Nasty? 2Aug 11, 2009 12:50 pm you'd find movement of the home will seperate the boards over time causeing cracking as render is brittle and the boards will move in squares. Ive seen this a few times usually on older homes that have been origanally some sort of hardiboard/weatherboard and at some point someones desired a rendered home, by screwing blueboard on over the weatherboard or removing the board and screwing to the frame, either way i dont think its a desired feature. Re: Cheap and Nasty? 3Aug 11, 2009 11:34 pm is it blueboard or hebel?, because alot of homes are being build with just hebel now, and it does have some advantages over bricks, not sure what they are, but my boyfriend wants to build his house with hebel because he hates bricks 1. Roof cleaning and paint - which colour do you recommend? I often see black/ dark grey in use these days but I would prefer… 0 8325 I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 10033 The HIA contract, in the term & conditions section states that "Commencment" is deemed when the drainage is started or the piers are dug or the slab is formed up (incase… 2 6177 |