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Their system uses some custom adhesive as do some of the other systems around. The catch is how will this adhesive hold up in 30 years and are you brave enough
by sien 8y ago
Their system uses some custom adhesive as do some of the other systems around.
The catch is how will this adhesive hold up in 30 years and are you brave enough to be that it works well on your house compared to the saving of using conventional systems?
This is why innovation in building is slow.
Fail fast is not possible. And there are often side effects. Just ask people with a metal framed house that creaks when it expands and contracts.
- grecy 8y agoAustralia has extremely strict building regulations, codes and inspections. (My brother just built his own house there...) I feel extremely confident this has been tested thoroughly, and it would not be allowed if it has not passed all tests.
- AstralStorm 8y agoThe regulations do not handle reliability, only registration of detected failures. Most building methods that are not known to fail catastrophically are allowed. (Including among others fires, water handling, short term structural collapse and invalid administration as well as cheating on plan vs implementation.) So it is mostly bureaucracy.
- kristianp 8y agoWhat about the gaps in the sides of the bricks? Do they get filled in?
- roel_v 8y agoThere have been 'alternative' adhesives (i.e. not mortar) on the market for decades. Mortar is just hard to beat on price and flexibility. But the question 'are there non-mortar ways to build and are they safe' has been answered.