Show me your facade colors!

I don't understand …

Well, those white suitcases there under the eaves are apparently pulled down to the floor, instead of as usual at the height of the eaves:

Doesn't quite fit the topic, but I saw it on the way. I like it and it might be cheaper than clinker bricks. We also have tiled houses in the countryside. In all kinds of tile variations. I just quickly took a photo.

Well, the white boxes there under the eaves, they are apparently pulled all the way down to the floor, instead of usually being at gutter height:

The roof boxes. Um … I've never really thought about that. On the raw ceiling there is a wooden structure at the edge and on it the roof frame, or the wooden structure is the roof frame.
Maybe you can see it a bit here.

Well, this way you save the knee wall where the roof frame normally rests. The purlin is simply placed on it. Saves immense costs.

I believe with the tiles it will probably be even more expensive. Traditionally, clinker bricks are set as a separate wall in front of insulation. At least that’s how it was done here with the few who built with clinker. So inner brick wall, insulation, clinker.

That way you save yourself the elaborate plaster facade, which basically has to be reinforced almost fully due to the many transitions between different materials. And with clinker you don’t have to get the brush out after 10 years... If only it didn’t look so terribly like a 1970s working-class terraced house in a miner’s settlement...

But if I don’t have a real clinker wall and have to create the plaster facade, tiles or facing bricks are an additional cost. And an expensive one. Such a facade has its 200-250 m². At 25 EUR/m², you quickly end up with 5,000 to 6,000 EUR just for the material. And then someone still has to glue them onto the plaster facade...

Why would someone have tiles on the lower part of their facade?

Because on the street side, there can be significant dirt buildup and you don’t want to paint your facade every 3 years.

In winter, when there is slush and puddles on the street and a truck or fast-moving car passes by, dirty water splashes onto the house and its facade. With tiles, this is not a problem. I have also seen people who stretch a protective tarp in front of their house wall in winter.

This problem occurs less in new housing areas, more on busy roads.