Is double brick housing good or bad? | Particle

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There's a solid reason why West Aussies are set on this classic, durable building material, but double-brick might not be the home of choice as the climate changes.

Short, but nice article on double brick housing in WA. It'll be interesting to see how the home construction industry here changes in the coming decades.

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why do they use these decorative bricks for building walls? why not normal modern bricks? you know, these: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Porotherm_style_clay_block_brick_angle_1.jpg
- What a lovely utilitarian idea! Seriously though, i reckon theres someone out there who has used these bricks in a ridiculously cool way. I'll have to wait for the Grand designs episode i suppose. /j
  
  pretty much all of hungary (not sure about other countries, but i'd expect at least the rest of central europe too) uses these types of bricks for almost everything. it's not a new thing either, we've had these all my life. not sure when they were introduced.
  but i've never seen these types used by anglo nations, and it's always bugged me.
  
  Of course! I'm thinking too locally, i've even seen people building with these types of bricks in Europe!
  Yeah, i'm not 100% sure. But the brick look, with good tuck-pointing has been a popular style, see below for a cool example. Maybe it's something to do with rendering not being available or popular in anglo countries.
  
  ah yeah, you cant leave these thermo bricks exposed, they look absolutely dogshit. especially as they make you immediately think "unfinished house, oh no". it's like seeing exposed house wrapping or OSB...
  as for rendering not being popular, that's the other thing. why isnt it? decorative bricks and no rendering, my two biggest questions about the "anglo" building industry.
  
  I had to look up what OSB is ( Oriented Strand Board). We don't get much of anybof that stuff here. I'd say its because the weather has rarely required a fully encased house.
  Rendering is way more popular in Perth in the last 20 odd years than in other times. I think if you had double brick it was a status symbol so you want to show the nice uniform bricks off. Maybe it's something about a brick houses perceived permanence? But i don't really know.

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