Clinker or plaster facade - What cost differences?

Hello! We are currently planning our single-family house. It has 156m^2 of living space, a gable roof without overhang. For cost reasons, I would like to use WDVS+plaster. However, my lady has a different view and thinks that with a plaster facade we will only have trouble and will have to call the painter every 5 years. I only find information like: "Brick facade for an ordinary single-family house +10,000€ compared to plaster" Has anyone in NRW perhaps recently had experience with how much the additional costs really are or in what range they are? Regards

W D VS. plus plaster plus north plus missing roof overhang equals algal growth. Woman would be right. If plaster then monolithic and with roof overhang the painter comes every 10-15 years. Facing brick is best. However, it will always be 10 thousand. Gross.

Away from the technical construction details: even clinker bricks - whether as a facing shell or slips - cannot work magic. The house will not remain factory-new in original packaging anyway, but is exposed to the weather. Whether you paint or power wash, nothing stays like new by itself.

Hm, I can't contribute anything about the costs. But: when I drive through the construction areas of my region, hoping to get great new ideas, I often see only one thing: algae-covered facades. Regardless of whether the houses are 3 or 13 years old.

For me, therefore, pro clinker brick. Or at least partially.

I live in a "former" clinker brick region, nobody has pressure-washed here yet...

Plaster is not the same as plaster. There are higher-quality plasters, but they cost more. Few are willing to pay for this. Also, plaster reacts differently to ETICS than with monolithic construction (or so.... I'm not an expert). Therefore, no general statement can be made. With all due respect, my opinion: cheap clinker bricks often look shabby. Additionally, the type of house should also decide. You cannot simply say: clinker or plaster. ...and the development plan must allow clinker or plaster. So, anyone who wants to move into a red clinker brick house must first find a residential area where red clinker is permitted. With us, it would not be allowed, only plaster. In the neighboring street, only red clinker is allowed, no brown, yellow, or gray...

Living in a „former“ clinker brick region, no one has ever pressure washed here...

Plaster is traditionally often pure white, clinker bricks are traditionally at best cream white and frequently first of all darker and second of all intentionally slightly mottled in sorting. So you don’t have to scrub them white again accordingly, but clinker bricks also stand "in life" with everything that belongs to dirt – the residential area in a cleanroom does not exist after all

..and the development plan must permit clinker bricks or plaster. [...] With us it wouldn’t be allowed, only plaster. On the neighboring street only red clinker bricks are allowed, no brown, yellow or gray...

That adds up. And a design to which (white) plaster or (red) clinker bricks both suit equally well is probably hard to find.

There simply is no "perfect" wall construction.

That’s how it is, both technically and aesthetically / visually.