Survey: Which building material/construction method have you chosen?

  • Erstellt am 2018-12-12 22:28:07
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Nordlys

2018-12-14 17:12:31
  • #1
That's how it is. And if you look back into the past. There are ancient fieldstone walls, brick houses, stave churches, half-timbered houses, etc. It's all just a matter of maintenance, then it lasts for centuries, in Trier there are things that are already thousands of years old. K.
 
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Tom1607

2018-12-16 07:10:34
  • #2
A hello to everyone,

I have experience with various 'construction methods.' Starting in 1994 with KS and WDVS, 2001 with hollow brick and WDVS, 2008 aerated concrete outside and KS inside.

If I were to build again now (you should never say never), I would use aerated concrete for the outside and KS for the inside again. Drilling a kitchen cabinet to the wall with two 8mm screws and putting 50kg in it is absolutely no problem.

With the aerated concrete blocks, I initially also tried anchors (I tried to fix my stainless steel external chimney with them), but then I gave up and switched to adhesive anchors. Nowadays I only fix anything that can get somewhat heavy in aerated concrete with adhesive anchors. Light things I simply screw into the wall with a 90x3.5 wood screw WITHOUT an anchor, works perfectly.

And last but not least, I bought an 'old house' that I am renovating gradually. Built in 1692, timber-framed with sandstone infill. Except for the parts that were 'improved' in recent decades, the place is in great shape. (if you can say that about a house over 300 years old)

In recent decades, my predecessors repeatedly tried to improve its energy efficiency. Since it is a listed monument, improvements can only be made on the inside and with sustainable results. The fools tried everything. Insulated, added cladding on wood/drywall, etc. In most places there was mold and the timber frame wood was totally rotten. From an originally 30cm beam, only an 8cm thick core was still solid. Where nothing was done, the old wood is still totally great. It does draft a bit and the heating runs a little more BUT you can live with that. What I want to say is that every type of building material has needs/properties that you have to know and possibly even like.
 
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dhd82

2018-12-16 08:04:47
  • #3
Hello,

we have decided on a double-shell masonry (calcium silicate brick + core insulation and clinker). All interior walls are also made of calcium silicate brick, the load-bearing ones are 17.5 cm and the non-load-bearing ones 11.5 cm thick.
What we like about this is that there is a functional separation: the clinker protects the facade and is less sensitive to external influences or easier to clean, and the calcium silicate brick provides stability and mass.

In our penultimate rental apartment, we had aerated concrete and at some point, without any further external influences, a living room wall cabinet came off the wall because the screw + plug broke out of the wall.
In our current rental apartment, we also have aerated concrete; nothing has happened so far, but all wall-mounted cabinets are extremely strongly fastened.
With aerated concrete, you drill almost without resistance, so I always have an uneasy feeling or doubts about whether it will hold or if I have properly dimensioned everything.
This is certainly a personal problem or due to the fact that we had the demolition in the penultimate rental apartment.

Whether everything will be better with calcium silicate brick, I can only say once we have moved into the new house.

If we were to build again, we would probably have all interior walls made with a thickness of 17.5 cm.
 
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haydee

2018-12-16 08:58:14
  • #4


This also came to light during the demolition. Where everything was left old, the building fabric was good; where newer building materials met old ones, dry rot.
 
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berny

2018-12-16 10:33:15
  • #5
We built with expanded clay large panels + 16 cm Styrodur insulation on the outside The actual erecting of the walls went quite quickly.
 
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Müllerin

2018-12-16 13:15:54
  • #6
Hollow clay brick plus facing brick,
Wall to neighbor (DH) in calcium silicate brick
 

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