Hi Everyone, I am after urgent advice on wall wrap for brick walls.
I am building a double story house with brick veneer ground floor walls and cladding first floor walls. There will be a wall wrap for the first floor cladding walls. Could you please advise if a wall wrap/wall sarking is recommended for the brick wall or not noting I have timber frame.
Builder has told me they don't typically wall wrap the brick veneer walls and only install wall wrap for cladding areas. Builder is quoting around 3k to supply and install the Bradford CSR Thermoseal XP wall wrap for approx. 43m of wall (2740mm height). Is it worth spending this money to get added weather and thermal benefits offered by wall wrap or it won't make much of difference?
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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 2May 14, 2024 7:08 am  detonator1962Hi Everyone, I am after urgent advice on wall wrap for brick walls. I am building a double story house with brick veneer ground floor walls and cladding first floor walls. There will be a wall wrap for the first floor cladding walls. Could you please advise if a wall wrap/wall sarking is recommended for the brick wall or not noting I have timber frame. Builder has told me they don't typically wall wrap the brick veneer walls and only install wall wrap for cladding areas. Builder is quoting around 3k to supply and install the Bradford CSR Thermoseal XP wall wrap for approx. 43m of wall (2740mm height). Is it worth spending this money to get added weather and thermal benefits offered by wall wrap or it won't make much of difference? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Wall wrap should be compulsory. It is one of the best thermal barriers you can install in your home. For those forum members who don't yet have a builder appointed, this is a really good question to weed out the sub par builders. Do you wrap your brick veneer homes? Basically if you don't, you will have your insulation sitting in a cavity that is designed to take moisture. In addition to this the air that leaks through your walls is ridiculous, so when you are heating or cooling your home the outside air comes in and the inside are goes out. Even using a simple Bunnings wrap with will be incredibly beneficial and should cost no more than a couple of grand. Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice.  09 Feb 2020 14 Junior Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 4May 14, 2024 4:45 pm detonator1962Thanks for the response Ashington Homes. I am going ahead with Enviroseal RW plus for brick walls and will be having James Hardie™ Wrap Weather Barrier for James Hardier linea cladding for first floor. Sounds like a plan There are plenty of good products out there from different suppliers. Main point is you actually get your home wrapped. So well done Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. 09 Feb 2020 14 Junior Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 6May 16, 2024 7:50 am ML24WAThinking of using this stuff for my extension: https://proclima.com.au/solitex-extasana/ Has anyone got experience with this product? It will be going under JH vertical cladding. OR so I use a JH specific house wrap with the JH cladding? Cheers Hi, I had a quick look at specification and its looks similar to James Hardie wrap. You can download datasheets for both and compare everthing. Contact suppliers to get price and warranty info and make the call accordingly. FYI, James Hardie offers 10 year warranty. 17 Aug 2023 35 Junior Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 8May 24, 2024 10:45 am detonator1962Thanks for the response Ashington Homes. I am going ahead with Enviroseal RW plus for brick walls and will be having James Hardie™ Wrap Weather Barrier for James Hardier linea cladding for first floor. I got quoted the same wrap by my builder. still confused by the difference by thermoseal vs enviroseal. anyone can help this is for Sydney climate. TIA. 01 Nov 2020 191 Bronze Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 9May 24, 2024 10:47 am Sleepless Knights detonator1962Thanks for the response Ashington Homes. I am going ahead with Enviroseal RW plus for brick walls and will be having James Hardie™ Wrap Weather Barrier for James Hardier linea cladding for first floor. I got quoted the same wrap by my builder. still confused by the difference by thermoseal vs enviroseal. anyone can help this is for Sydney climate. TIA. different wraps for different climate zones 09 Feb 2020 14 Junior Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 10May 24, 2024 11:33 am Sleepless Knights detonator1962Thanks for the response Ashington Homes. I am going ahead with Enviroseal RW plus for brick walls and will be having James Hardie™ Wrap Weather Barrier for James Hardier linea cladding for first floor. I got quoted the same wrap by my builder. still confused by the difference by thermoseal vs enviroseal. anyone can help this is for Sydney climate. TIA. Hi Sleepless Knights, NOTE THE BELOW INFORMATION IS BASED ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE FROM FACEBOOK GROUP WHERE I POSTED THE SAME POST. I was told by few people to not to get Thermoseal as it's being phased out as it can cause potentially cause more issues. I went with Enviroseal for brick areas and used Hardie™ Wrap Weather Barrier for James Hardier linea cladding for first floor. Both of them breath and doesn't cause more condensation. The cost difference shouldn't be much for all of three. James Hardie wrap is semi reflective better in a temperate climate like Sydney, both wraprs are class 4 or permeable hence, neither will increase your condensation risk. Enviroseal has 0.9 emittance (non reflective) and James Hardie is 0.15 (semi reflective) hence in summer James Hardier will potentially help keep house cooler, both will improve air tightness and both are permeable. In summary, I would not recommend Thermoseal. Both Enivroseal and James Hardier wraps are pretty much same except the emittance values and apparently James Hardier is better for Sydney Climate. Get quotes for both of them and make a call accordingly. I hope this helps! 04 Jun 2020 217 Bronze Member Re: Wall wrap requriement for brick veneer walls with timber 11Jun 17, 2024 10:20 pm We used pro clima walls and roof. It's a high quality product (good vapour permeability and water resistance) and can withstand UV for a long period of time. Pro clima's tapes are known to be one of the better ones on the market, hence why a lot of high performance builders use them. We taped to the bottom and top plates and taped all penetrations. Pro clima also recommend a ventilated cavity on the walls and roof to let any moisture that does get behind the cladding to dry out. Our builder used 35mm battens for this. Have heard Bradford Enviroseal proctor wrap is also a good product. I think it's wise to use vapour permeable (class 4) for most climates (not including tropical) regardless if the code requires it. 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