Why Kiwis Are Building Fewer Brick Homes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- This video breaks down two types of cladding: brick and weatherboard. We will also talk about how Kiwis prefer to build weatherboard homes and why. If you like this kind of content and want more please consider subscribing!
Brick and mortar houses are bulletproof. Best protection ever during a drive-by 😂
I bet your brickie loved this video.
Rendered brick is very common here in Australia. Every house on my suburban street is brick, with most rendered.
Isn't the main reason why bricks aren't used anymore because of the many earthquakes in New Zealand
They are 100% still used and very common on new builds, I would say brick is more common that weatherboard, so this video my be area specific.
Bricks also stop noise, but they are a pain in summer on the sunny side of the house as they heat up during the day and keep it hot at night
Hi Josh, do you have any experience with uPVC palliside weatherboard cladding?
Does the brick wall provide any structural support or simply a 'floating' cladding system in NZ?
In NZ bricks are a a 'cladding vaneer' over a drained/vented cavity, 40mm minimum but it's usually 50mm to allow for 4.5mm-10mm bracing. They offer no structural support. If bricks are present over a window a steel lintel, usually galvanized, spans between the brick up either jamb. Brick ties fasten to the framing and are embedded in the mortar at centre's dependant on the suppliers specifications and NZ standards.
Na. It’s just a cladding in most modern houses, which still have timber structural framing
Question: What is Weather Board? It looks nice. But I am not familiar with this in California.
I've lost some of the best years of my life scraping, sanding and painting. The alternative was losing even more years of my life moving house, and working to pay interest on a mortgage that would be required to purchase a proper home.
Definitely a labour of love owning a wooden home
What about rockcote? How does that compare with the other go tos?
whats the point though if you're not doing a double layer? didn't even know this was a thing tbh. So you just frame the inside with wood or something?
It’s a brick veneer.
Correct. These brick homes are timber framed
Im personality on the fence with brick cladding.
I think there is a place for it but for most simple single level hipped roofed homes it looks a bit like a gold plated Honda vitz, a bit tacky.
Brick used in the right style building can make a real statement.
Brick also doesn't have much history in nz ether, there are very few buildings left that are an example of brick architecture unlike places in the uk usa and Canada.
Finally!!!
Mate come see Chch or Rolleston which are brick mad !
By using wood you are locking up carbon until that house burns down. As long as it’s sustainably harvested , surely thats better for the environment?
you are talking about the outer layer of the wall...the "main" wall behind most of that is still crappy cheap wood...NZ houses are not really build to last for a long time except those real brick houses.
i grew up in Auckland moved to perth 25 years ago and worked in housing here in Western Australia when i compare the two nz is behind in the materials and systems of building houses but again Australia is better in most ways not to mention the crappy nz weather the bloody rain lol
If properly protected from moisture, the wood frame will last indefinitely. The oldest house in my town was built of wood by the British in 1650 and it's still standing. The oldest wood buildings in the world are over 1,000 year old.
But a brick home needs less aircon and is over time less expensive since it doesn't need any maintenance. Build it right the first time and you won't need to move it. it's also fire retardant. Where i live we've got buildings that are 400 years old and still going strong made from brick.
The main reason people probably now prefer wood is because it's cheaper to build. Buildings made from stone or brick have been around for thousands of years not just in colder climates. According to google the oldest brick building is in Egypt, there they probably used it to keep out the heat.
I think the most durable buildings are made from a combination of wood and brick.
The thermal resistance of a veneer brick wall is pretty minimal. Our brick has a cavity between the framing and brick. Brick is generally cheaper than timber cladding per m2 also.
Brick needs more aircon in summer
@@nnaheim. Only if it's in the sun. In the shade, it delays the warmup during the day and the cool down at night, both of which are sometimes an advantage.
What about earthquakes
Clearly mentioned in the video
Brick veneer can fall off in an earthquake, but the wood structure of the house will usually be OK. Thin "brick" systems are, in general, more flexible, so they are likely to suffer less damage in a quake.
Bricks cheaper than timber, more thermal mass
Hi, no thermal mass benefit awayin bricks outside the insulation barrier and open to the atmosphere .
why people keep using timber or brick, try to use precast wall. you can finish the house in 1-2months. NZ should change how they build the house. Not efficient and quality sucks. Honest opinion.
Precast concrete might have a long life if they switched to Roman concrete, but the usual, cheap modern concrete has, on the average, the shortest lifespan of any building material, and pre-tensioned precast panels make it even shorter, since they tend to snap if either the concrete or steel gets too weak. The British learned that lesson with some of the defective prefabs they built after WWII.
Ill hopes never buy a weatherboard house. Too much maint.
They not real brick houses.. just a brick cladding.. a real brick an mortar house doesn’t have a shitty wooden box frame..
in WA they are double brick