Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Building in Double Brick 2Jan 28, 2009 2:50 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Building in Double Brick 4Jan 28, 2009 4:02 pm Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: Building in Double Brick 5Jan 28, 2009 5:00 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Building in Double Brick 19Aug 22, 2012 11:09 am I think you have to pick your construction method as to where you are living. In the northern and western states I think you need to think more about keeping the heat out whereas in the southern states it is more about keeping the heat in. I've done a lot of research too as we are looking to do a big reno/rebuild in the new year and are looking to build our ground floor in BV, the first floor in timber frame and poly clad sheeting. Note: we live on the northern beaches of Sydney so we have mild winters and reasonably mild summers too - no extremes of either. Our existing place is a modest double brick home built just after the war and while it can be a cold house in winter , summer can be quite pleasant. Emicat I am another Kiwi refugee who is also a builder so I am curious as to why you think a solely timber framed house is the way to go - my research indicates otherwise but as I said it depends where you live. I've also lived in lots of different houses built in all sorts of methods both here and in NZ- double and single storey DB & BV , WB clad timber framed houses, fibro clad timber framed houses, flat roofed , pitched roof etc etc Our new ground floor walls are going to be thicker than the standard 250mm BV which are usually 110mm brick - 50mm cavity - 90mm timber frame. We are going for 110mm brick - 40mm cavity - 60mm polystyrene insul panels - 90mm timber frame. The timber frame will have R 2.5 batts installed as well. The 60mm panels give us another R2.5 to 3.0 layer depending on what brand we go for. The top level will have standard 90mm timber framing with R 2.5 batts then 50-60mm insulated poly sheeting texture coated on the outside for another R 2.5 rating. Our light coloured Colorbond roof will have a 75mm foil blanket ( R 2.5 ) with R3.0 batts in the ceiling. We are still weighing up the cost to benefit ratio but it looks pretty good so far. Stewie Re: Building in Double Brick 20Aug 27, 2012 7:56 pm Emicat Hmm well we were builders in NZ we have been in Perth for 12 months now so have experienced the heat waves and reasonable cold snap and we rent a double brick home. Our option on double brick is that it is like living in a pizza oven in the summer as the house never gets a chance to cool down and costs a fortune to cool with air con. In the winter it's like living in a fridge and it's warmer outside!! You just touch the interior rendered walls with the vacum and a big piece chips out whereas with plasterboard it would dent if you touched it hard enough and you could patch far easier as well. A timber frame home with linear board exterior and double glazed windows on driven piles will be our pick when we build with a huge water storage facility under the house so we don't have to pay for water!! timber frame house give you the ability to insulate to the max including sound proofing interior walls between bathrooms and bedrooms or theatre rooms and when it cools in the evening or the sea breeze comes in you just open the windows and the house cools straight away so therefore you are saving on power. We love Perth the opportunities it has given us but West Australians need to open their minds to timber framed homes, do the research you'll see I'm right. Emicat, You can't beat full brick houses. They are cool in summer, but as others have mentioned, they can be cool in winter. The idea is to use the sun (with the right amount of northern windows) to heat the house. The bricks will store the heat until the next day. Also, I don;t know where you got the idea that rendered walls chip easy. You can hit them with anythign and they stay OK, not like gyprock. Full brick also lasts the longest. Apart form the cost, full brick is a winer in low maintenance, comfort and wearability. Cheers, Casa Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 5 11132 Hi Kristy Around $1.7-1.8m or around $4,600/sqm. if you PM me your email I will send you a break up in a spreadsheet so you can get an understanding of the costs for… 1 12857 Just moved from a rental that was bearer and joist floor with double brick walls throughout. Worst house ever! Granted in Summer we didnt need any form of Air-Con to… 2 2608 |