ᐅ Garage built with sand-lime bricks or aerated concrete blocks
Created on: 7 Feb 2020 21:12
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Schurik19855
Hi everyone,
Our construction company planned a garage with the following specifications:
- 6 x 9 meters (5 meters (16.4 feet) wide garage door)
- Strip foundation and paved floor
- Hipped roof with an 18° (18 degrees) pitch
- 17.5 cm (7 inch) Ytong PP6 blocks (<----- we haven’t decided on this yet)
- Plastered finish
- Unheated
- Structural engineering checked and approved
The garage will primarily be used for parking, but also as a training space and occasionally for social events. Now the question is whether sound insulation or the thermal properties of Ytong are more important.
My idea was to build the garage with 17.5 cm (7 inch) sand-lime bricks, add a ring beam at the top, and then the hipped roof. The construction company, however, recommends Ytong instead. If I don’t want the 17.5 cm (7 inch) Ytong, they suggest using 24 cm (9.5 inch) Ytong blocks.
What do you think? What would you recommend? Does anyone have a garage made of Ytong and not regretted it? Is it not too noisy? Does Ytong really keep the garage warm? Or is sand-lime brick the better option after all?
It’s my decision, of course, but I’m really struggling with it.
Thanks in advance!
Good luck
Our construction company planned a garage with the following specifications:
- 6 x 9 meters (5 meters (16.4 feet) wide garage door)
- Strip foundation and paved floor
- Hipped roof with an 18° (18 degrees) pitch
- 17.5 cm (7 inch) Ytong PP6 blocks (<----- we haven’t decided on this yet)
- Plastered finish
- Unheated
- Structural engineering checked and approved
The garage will primarily be used for parking, but also as a training space and occasionally for social events. Now the question is whether sound insulation or the thermal properties of Ytong are more important.
My idea was to build the garage with 17.5 cm (7 inch) sand-lime bricks, add a ring beam at the top, and then the hipped roof. The construction company, however, recommends Ytong instead. If I don’t want the 17.5 cm (7 inch) Ytong, they suggest using 24 cm (9.5 inch) Ytong blocks.
What do you think? What would you recommend? Does anyone have a garage made of Ytong and not regretted it? Is it not too noisy? Does Ytong really keep the garage warm? Or is sand-lime brick the better option after all?
It’s my decision, of course, but I’m really struggling with it.
Thanks in advance!
Good luck
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pffreestyler11 Feb 2020 13:57We will also use calcium silicate bricks, but in 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) thickness. According to our shell builder, this is sufficient for the gable roof. Ytong would have been easier for us to work with, but for a shed, the cutting is much more limited compared to a house with numerous windows and doors.
pffreestyler schrieb:
We will also use calcium silicate bricks, but in 11.5 cm (4.5 inches). According to our shell builder, that is sufficient for the gable roof. The key term is gable roof, but the original poster actually wants a hip roof. I don’t think 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) calcium silicate bricks will be enough for that.
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Schurik1985511 Feb 2020 14:35I took a look. The 17.5 cm (7 inch) sand-lime bricks I want weigh 18 kg (40 lbs) per brick. That’s quite heavy, but it should be manageable. I’m not untrained, after all.
Building the garage with 11.5 cm (4.5 inch) bricks would be too thin for me. Initially, I was thinking more along the lines of 24 cm (9.5 inch). You could also use U-channels with that. With 17.5 cm (7 inch) bricks, a ring beam is necessary. I think that thickness is good for a hipped roof.
Building the garage with 11.5 cm (4.5 inch) bricks would be too thin for me. Initially, I was thinking more along the lines of 24 cm (9.5 inch). You could also use U-channels with that. With 17.5 cm (7 inch) bricks, a ring beam is necessary. I think that thickness is good for a hipped roof.
Schurik19855 schrieb:
The 17.5 cm (7 inch) sand-lime bricks I want weigh 18 kg (40 lbs) per brick.The first one weighs eighteen. The second one weighs—wow—eighteen; the third one, wow again, eighteen, and so on. You can carry aerated concrete bricks easily even without equipment once you’re trained, but sand-lime bricks are harder to handle without tools; and fifty aerated concrete bricks are just fifty bricks, whereas fifty sand-lime bricks mean taking a day off or applying pain relief the next day.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Schurik1985511 Feb 2020 14:5411ant schrieb:
The first one weighs eighteen. The second one weighs, well, eighteen; the third one weighs, oh dear, eighteen, and so on. With aerated concrete blocks, you can still manage without equipment once you’re used to it, but with calcium silicate bricks, not so much; and fifty aerated concrete blocks are just fifty blocks, but fifty calcium silicate bricks mean fifty blocks and a day off or pain relief the next day.There’s some truth to that, but thankfully the garage isn’t going anywhere. So just “relaxing” while building the walls…
pffreestyler schrieb:
We will also use calcium silicate blocks, but 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) thick. According to our shell builder, that is sufficient for the gable roof. Although Ytong would have been easier for us to work with, cutting is minimal for a shed compared to a house with many windows and doors.It’s becoming my favorite saying, but remember the anchors—11.5 cm (4.5 inches) is not thick if you want to hang anything on the wall.
Schurik19855 schrieb:
I checked. The calcium silicate blocks 17.5 cm (7 inches) thick that I want weigh 18 kg (40 lbs) per block. That’s quite heavy, but should be manageable. I’m not untrained.
Building the garage with 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) blocks would be too thin for me. Initially, I was thinking more about 24 cm (9.5 inches). You could have also used U-channels with that. At 17.5 cm (7 inches), a ring beam is required. I think that thickness is good for a hip roof.Well, 18 kg (40 lbs) per block must mean either very high compressive strength or a large format, or a combination of both. There are easier options, like a calcium silicate block L 3DF in 175 mm (7 inches), which weighs under 10 kg (22 lbs) per block. That helps with endurance.
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