Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation Re: Hollow bricks fine to use for double RBV? 8Aug 20, 2021 10:24 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Hollow bricks fine to use for double RBV? 14Aug 27, 2021 2:08 am Doughboy Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Insulation should stop heating the brick, but if you don't have double glazing the energy efficiency is incredibly diminished. You can get double brick fully insulated (common in England) which would be more efficient than reverse veneer IMHO. Eaves overhand improves this dramatically also. If the external brick is a light colour with full cavity insulation, even better if rendered and painted white, you will get more thermal efficiency than reverse brick veneer. Double brick can easily be cavity insulated, which blows all the other materials out the water. Window glazing size is the weakest link, unless the windows are double glazed. Yeah, I think the next step for me is working out how much sun I'll be expecting on certain windows and picking the option to suit, be it low-e, double glazing or both and if it's worth the money to do it. ShaneG We have been doing heaps of hybrid floors lately. The hollowness is caused by low spots in the slab or subfloor. No slab or particleboard floor is going to be… 1 10371 That sucks! Hope it all works out. Good to move away from steel anyway for all your reasons, but it's also thermally poor. 16 17740 If what you describe is correct then the brick wall has been dry lined with villa board. That basically means that the villa board is glued to the brick wall with… 3 8297 |