Hello folks,
Just writing on this forum to get some insights to the hebel vs. brick discussion.
And to hear from real life examples of other people who have actually built a new home out of CSR hebel AAC material and how is like to live in one.
Not enough information is out there on the Internet to research this answer up.
From all the known sources. It mainly comes out of the www.hebel.com.au website which is the manufacturer and therefore seen as biased.
I’m currently in the situation for a knock down rebuild and will be making my selection choice with Metricon in the next three days and haven’t fully decided yet. They have a very good promotion at the moment.
Noise/acoustics was one of my main criteria’s for choosing the best appropriate building material to construct my new family 2 storey home. We currently live next to a main busy high traffic road with heavy trucks passing by. The house we have now in Sydney is an old Californian bungalow fully double brick home of the 1930’s/1940’s some noise by the vehicles can be heard day and night.
With double brick, the thermal mass works like this:
So cool in summer in the daytime but by night the bricks releases heat back internally and you feel like sleeping in an oven. And then total opposite in winter, when the house is too cold and takes too long to warm up, you end up putting on the heater for longer hours. This has been our experience, its good and bad.
Heat/temperature and energy efficiency is my next criteria. How comfortable is it to live in a house made out of hebel.
The bricks that has been assigned by the builder is from Australbricks everyday living standard range, this looks hollow with the 10 individual holes. Please see the photo below. The end result will be brick veneer with wall insulation also being used as well.
The other option is to use Hebel Powerpanel XL 75mm thick panels, with wall insulation batts and then render it. We have asked the builder, it ends up being cheaper and faster to build with hebel because some people upgrade their brick selection choice for a better end look so it costs more. Approximately double the price to be about $3 per brick (per 1000 quantity ordered)
So I’m after some constuctructive feedback, this would be most helpful.
Thanks
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