Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 16, 2019 9:03 pm Hi, we are building for the first time. The builder wants to charge us $4000 for brick infills above windows, even though we want to render. Is this normal? Could we just render over blue board / polystyrene and not have the expense of the brick infills? I thought the brick infills would only be required for aesthetic purposes if we were not going to render...any help would be appreciated. Re: are brick infills required when rendering? 3Jun 17, 2019 4:12 am Whereisnat Hi, we are building for the first time. The builder wants to charge us $4000 for brick infills above windows, even though we want to render. Is this normal? Could we just render over blue board / polystyrene and not have the expense of the brick infills? I thought the brick infills would only be required for aesthetic purposes if we were not going to render...any help would be appreciated. Make sure if you pull out of brick infills , that you enquire about the finish. When we switched to blue board for the same reason, I made the builder note on the elevations that the board was to sit flush. They didn’t do this initially- they did what’s apparent standard, and had the blue board recessed in. Looked very ordinary! However even when they flushed it out, we still have joints M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Is it possible to render an old corrugated iron shed.I have heard that it can be done if it is covered with chicken wire first.Not sure of the ratio of the render mix and… 0 4889 Dear Members I have to decide the Facade column size. My custom builder standard is 350mm with rendering, but i asked for 470mm plus stone or tiles and yet to get… 0 7490 yep you need a joint, foam is easiest, will look fine once rendered with a joint. 2 5228 |