Building your own home
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Without the use of cement and decent plastering those bricks will be ant and termite infested in no time.beaker wrote: βSun Apr 19, 2020 7:58 am Anyone thinking of building a home should check out the Eco bricks made in Phnom Penh. The price , last I checked, was $7 for a pallet of ~50 bricks. They can be laid by anyone with out any experience much like 'Lego' bricks and would be a great family project. They also save as they look great without having to be cemented over as the traditional building style here also come in different colors and some have decorative images pressed into the bricks.
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Re: Building your own home
Ants and termites don't really care about plastering or cement, they can easily finds ways through or around it. Still, those bricks don't really save much money.
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I'm interested in your reasoning as to how using brick that you can lay yourself and don't need plastering or cement on either side would not be cheaper. They can also go up much quicker tooBitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: βSun Apr 19, 2020 10:32 am Ants and termites don't really care about plastering or cement, they can easily finds ways through or around it. Still, those bricks don't really save much money.
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I looked into this brick myself and thought it to be an interesting alternative to the "usual" bricks being used in Cambodia.beaker wrote: βSun Apr 19, 2020 7:58 am Anyone thinking of building a home should check out the Eco bricks made in Phnom Penh. The price , last I checked, was $7 for a pallet of ~50 bricks. They can be laid by anyone with out any experience much like 'Lego' bricks and would be a great family project. They also save as they look great without having to be cemented over as the traditional building style here also come in different colors and some have decorative images pressed into the bricks.
I contacted Hav from "My Dream Home" who makes a similar brick in PP... to get some cost's and as mentioned here it is about $7/m2 not including transportation costs.
There is a similar design brick in Malaysia (as there are others in Thailand), however, the one that "My Dream Home" offers is a size of 200mm x 100mm x 100mm which I am not too fond of as I'd prefer the width to be broader than it's dimension in height (as is found to be in most western brick dimensions).
I still think it is a good alternative to try and would not hurt to apply a thin layer around the top of the surface of the brick, maybe some thinner mortar or sikaflex of some sort to seal it from any termites/ants.
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I have seen them construct with a glue between layers or with the seams 'grouted' both would/should stop ants/bugs.MickyC wrote: βSun Apr 26, 2020 9:35 amI looked into this brick myself and thought it to be an interesting alternative to the "usual" bricks being used in Cambodia.beaker wrote: βSun Apr 19, 2020 7:58 am Anyone thinking of building a home should check out the Eco bricks made in Phnom Penh. The price , last I checked, was $7 for a pallet of ~50 bricks. They can be laid by anyone with out any experience much like 'Lego' bricks and would be a great family project. They also save as they look great without having to be cemented over as the traditional building style here also come in different colors and some have decorative images pressed into the bricks.
I contacted Hav from "My Dream Home" who makes a similar brick in PP... to get some cost's and as mentioned here it is about $7/m2 not including transportation costs.
There is a similar design brick in Malaysia (as there are others in Thailand), however, the one that "My Dream Home" offers is a size of 200mm x 100mm x 100mm which I am not too fond of as I'd prefer the width to be broader than it's dimension in height (as is found to be in most western brick dimensions).
I still think it is a good alternative to try and would not hurt to apply a thin layer around the top of the surface of the brick, maybe some thinner mortar or sikaflex of some sort to seal it from any termites/ants.
If I were to build with these I would have an air gap between double outside walls maybe a void filled with rice hulls or an inch of foam insulation glued to inside of exterior wall with air gap double wall or even a meter wide gap that could have storage or stairways that could be shut off from living area.
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jimi hendrix
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Re: Building your own home
I have seen them construct with a glue between layers or with the seams 'grouted' both would/should stop ants/bugs.MickyC wrote: βSun Apr 26, 2020 9:35 amI looked into this brick myself and thought it to be an interesting alternative to the "usual" bricks being used in Cambodia.beaker wrote: βSun Apr 19, 2020 7:58 am Anyone thinking of building a home should check out the Eco bricks made in Phnom Penh. The price , last I checked, was $7 for a pallet of ~50 bricks. They can be laid by anyone with out any experience much like 'Lego' bricks and would be a great family project. They also save as they look great without having to be cemented over as the traditional building style here also come in different colors and some have decorative images pressed into the bricks.
I contacted Hav from "My Dream Home" who makes a similar brick in PP... to get some cost's and as mentioned here it is about $7/m2 not including transportation costs.
There is a similar design brick in Malaysia (as there are others in Thailand), however, the one that "My Dream Home" offers is a size of 200mm x 100mm x 100mm which I am not too fond of as I'd prefer the width to be broader than it's dimension in height (as is found to be in most western brick dimensions).
I still think it is a good alternative to try and would not hurt to apply a thin layer around the top of the surface of the brick, maybe some thinner mortar or sikaflex of some sort to seal it from any termites/ants.
If I were to build with these I would have an air gap between double outside walls maybe a void filled with rice hulls or an inch of foam insulation glued to inside of exterior wall with air gap double wall or even a meter wide gap that could have storage or stairways that could be shut off from living area.
"i'm the one who has to die, when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way i want to"
jimi hendrix
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Re: Building your own home
Just inquired with the folks at https://www.facebook.com/invironmentalb ... 1&fref=tag
The price is now $8.5 / m2.
The price is now $8.5 / m2.
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