Hebel Or Bricks

Of course hebel has to be rendered, which requires maintenance, as it starts to look tired after a few years

And are looks important to you - do you want render or face brick?

I preferred to have face brick as it gives bold look to the house. But, my project manager thinks it good to use hebel panel render thereafter to cut down the cost as my land is inclined and he thinks using bricks will be expensive in terms of labour costs and time. But, my thinking is if going with bricks only make difference of around $10k to $20k then I am happy go with brick than hebel including insulation and everything. And he has no idea how much will be the cost difference between hebel and bricks, but he says brick will be expensive as per his devleoping experience.

Also, saying that my project manager said using hebel will save a lot of money in scaffolding compare to bricks. But wondering does scaffolding cost too much money and if yes how much $5k, $10k $20k. Any rough estimate. It is a 23sq house on inclined land.

Scaffolding Costs are less than $500/wk
and the reason the council wants to know the building materials is they don't want it to Burn Down or Structurally Collapse

rameshbhai Welcome to the forum
Try Googling Is hebel as durable as brick? & Check out Material Mechanical properties,etc
For project specific Data and Proofs use Building Information Modelling (BIM) on ur project
eg. Slab and Form work Costs

I read other forums and some say the repainting require after 7 to 8 years and that too depends on the area you live.
wondering if it will cost too much to use bricks or hebel panels on an inclined land. The land is 2 meters inclined.

All else being equal, Hebel should mean better insulation & quicker installation & an ability to patch over the final finish, with face bricks once it's done it's done.

Additionally, does Hebel require acid washing like bricks do? Because the builder is less likely to munt the finish on your aluminium windows if that acid washing isn't needed (I sadly speak from experience).

We'd probably have gone with Hebel and put up with the 10-yearly need to re-render (or at least paint), if the builder had been set-up to use Hebel. They offered it, but because it was a rare exception for them, it was considerably more expensive so we went with the low-maintenance face-brick instead. In a way I was glad, because rendered houses look very 1997 to me, and Sydney probably doesn't "need" the extra insulation (ie. it'd have made little difference to me). But … if the Hebel doesn't need acid washing, then in conditional hindsight I wish we'd paid the extra for the Hebel!