Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 28, 2017 10:49 am Hi, we are looking to build a new lowset acreage home in QLD. We currently have the design with brick veneer as my husbands preference but I personally love the look of the traditional weatherboard homes. To him there is something about a brick house that just feels stronger and more durable. I noticed on a previous thread here that someone quoted the three little pigs and we have had numerous friends say the same thing and am curious if there is truth to this statement? I am now considering if we could go reverse brick veneer with the scyon linea boards to get the best of both worlds? Also, I know reverse brick veneer seems to make some sense down south where it's cold but am worried if it is a negative in our warmer climate here, we will have ducted air conditioning but would like to make the construction as sensible as possible. Any advice on the actual functionality of facade choice would be greatly appreciated!! Would love to hear the pros and cons of anyone building in qld that was trying to decide between the two? Reverse brick veneer with linea board in QLD? 2May 28, 2017 12:46 pm Hello Picky, Firstly welcome and congrats on getting a build started. In regards to your question about clad board, its just as good as bricks. Our first build which was on the Gold Coast was a double story and we had the James Hardie Cladding to our whole second story, it wasn't fabulous with keeping the heat out but looked amazing. We should have used thicker insulation but we didn't know better. We are at quoting stage on our second build which is a acreage home, custom builder this time and our house is going to be all clad. Things to be aware of, if you wish to clad your home increasing your external frame width of your house from 70mm to 90mm is very beneficial, as the lineal boards you are looking at are a concrete product they do need to be nailed into the frame. Those nails will penetrate more than half of the frames depth at 70mm. The other great factor about a 90mm external frame is you can add thicker insulation batts. A brick home generally has R1.5 wall batts which is fine, the lineal boards dont hold the same R rating as bricks so having thicker insulation is a wise move in terms of heating and cooling plus helps to achieve your 6 star energy rating which all new QLD build must achieve. If you want some ideas on facade for weather board style homes, have a look at StoryBrook Homes, they are a kit home company that only offer weatherboard homes and some of the facades are stunning, I used a couple of there house's to create my own new front facade look. In terms of 3 little pigs, this is very much not the case. Your house will be completely sturdy, a common mis understanding about brick homes is how solid they look when in actual fact the bricks do nothing to the actual structural integrity of the house, they are literally a finishing product, your frame is what makes your house sturdy. As you are going onto acreage you will have a different wind rating too, generally residential houses have a N2 wind rating, but acreage homes almost always have a N3 because the houses are so exposed, stronger steel bracing, more tie downs and a 90mm frame will work perfectly to achieve that rating, the finishing product on the exterior basically just keeps the water out. I refused to have a brick house again as we didnt have the best experience with our bricks on our first build and ended up rendering the whole first floor, bricks can be very expensive if you want a solid colour through brick which is important as the colour of the brick goes the whole way through. If for example you chip a slurry brick its only the face of the brick that has the colour and generally they are red in the middle so a chipped brick would show up badly especially on a dark brick. If you get sick of the look of your home in years to come the only way to change it is to render, if you have cladding you can change it up with a new paint colour. Another product to look at is nuline-cladding they are James Hardie's direct competition and offer a excellent product, priced really well too. I hope this info helps, Im sure lots of other lovely peeps on here will have some ideas and info for you too. Cheers. Re: Reverse brick veneer with linea board in QLD? 4May 30, 2017 8:16 pm Where in QLD are you building Pickylady? Your location (actually your local climate) will dictate what construction method you should use. Generally, if you are located near the coast you should choose a lightweight construction method. If you are located inland you should choose a higher mass building method. I'll explain why below. The government's guide to energy-efficient home construction explains it better, & in far more depth. This is a brilliant website. I'd recommend you read it all. Particularly the sections on passive design, designing for climate & house orientation. You can find it here, http://www.yourhome.gov.au But here let's just talk about "diurnal temperature range", & "thermal mass". The diurnal temperature range is the difference between daytime highs & nighttime lows. Generally, coastal climates have low diurnal temperature ranges, ie. daytime & nighttime temperatures don't vary quite so much. Inland climates have high diural temperature ranges, ie. daytime highs will be far different from nighttime lows. In this case thermal mass can be used to smooth out the peaks of the highs & lows. Note the thermal mass must be inside the building envelope, protected from the outdoor climate. Think, reverse brick veneer, good! Brick clad homes, bad! Thermal mass is the ability of a material to absorb & store heat. Brick is a material with high thermal mass. It can absorb large amounts of heat, & release it slowly over many hours. So in an inland climate reverse brick veneer can be a very good building method. In winter the internal brick in north facing rooms can absorb direct sunshine in the daytime, re-radiating that heat at night once the home begins to cool down. In summer, nighttime purging (opening the windows) of the house will cool the house. The internal bricks will take a long time to warm up in the daytime, keeping the house cool. In coastal climates thermal mass can be very detrimental. This is because coastal environments have higher nighttime temperatures, & thermal mass will impede the house cooling down overnight, making the house uncomfortable on summer nights. So for coastal climates lightweight building methods should be used. Think, a timber framed house, with lightweight cladding. For inland climates a higher mass method is appropriate. Think, reverse brick veneer. External brick cladding heats up throughout the day, taking a long time to cool down in the night, making brick clad homes thermally inefficient, & a poor choice. So in any case, a lightweight cladding is appropriate, brick cladding is not. You win! Hubby loses! Hey guys, what’s everyone opinion on James Hardie linea direct fix to frame? Would this be the most common method and anybody ever had any problems down the track? 0 5132 2 5904 We are building a house that was planned to be clad in Hardie Linea, our builder has now requested to swap this for BGC Nuline Plus. They look fairly similar and he has… 0 553 |