/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1750587
>Is it a good idea to build something big, while having bricks bear most or all of the load of the heavy thing?

generally no, but it actually depends entirely on the qualtiyand type of the brick. Here loading is exclusivly done with RC poured in specialy type bricks while regular bricks are fill in.

>>1720140
>>Structural brick with no steel reinforcement whatsoever

Floor and beams above windows are RC and why is no RC on loading parts of the wall ("hal-timber position") a good thing? Its cheaper and faster not to use RC columns.
RC columns are much stronger than just bricks, they arent necessary on low rises.

>>timber framed roof

this is good or bad depending do you isolate the roof and make it livable. We do timber roofs here as well but Im biased towards a concrete roof.

>>1719863
>Reinforced concrete blocks for the wall panels and cast reinforced concrete columns and beams for anything structural.

for panels its wiser to use terra bricks since isolation, but RC columns ftw!

>>1579474
>that you pour foundation too, so why not to pour walls etc?

they sometimes do, but since RC is a bad isolator, you do it mostly for beams on lower builds and fill it with brick half timber style

>Also I found out that in seismic countries they add rebars in bricks.

if you pour RC in brick it has to be a harder wearing brick, not the aerated type you "fill in". That is a faster method, present in Florida and Germany, here we make forms out of plywood and pour it in (btw, you cant make a RC form out of OSB since concrete will glue to it and rip it apart when removing, for that reason it has to be plywood).

Pic rel demonstrates the method here, but even pouring in brick is OK (hard to tell which one is structurally better)

>>1579522
>OSB isn't the problem.
>All wood rots when damp.

yet it is, all laminated timber is weaker than solid timber - it gets wet it stretches it self destructs due to different strech rates since not homogenics like solid timber.

>>1570435
>Making ideal concrete wall is difficult, it will have a lot of imperfections and inconsistentes.

correct, but not that big of a problem and way less warpy then that young pine frame you use, also almost 0 warp when bricks. The advantages outweight the disadvantages by a mile.

>>1558528
>Ime a lot of 'builders' cannot pour/mix concrete to any decent level of skill, and I'm in Europe. The ones who know there's skill involved and have some effort into learning are fantastic at it though.

what country are you from?
Concrete seems like a dark art, I would in no way attempt to pour smth like a roof or loading walls, one small change in moisture and the wall can collapse, not to mention placing the reinforcement net.

Is that the reason we see more Yandex loading block use and pouring RC in them instead of on site formed beams with plyboards? Do you think that there is a difference in durability in those systems or its just about convinience?

>>1527957
>Do you guys encapsulate the expanding foam with anything after you apply it?

yes, offcourse, its there for airflow and additional stabilization, usually wood goes over it

>>1527959
>>1527962
look at the size of those bricks, these are rediculously FAST and you dont need that much skill for aerated euro brick, only for solid brit style brick