ᐅ Brick veneer facade vs. stucco facade

We love brick cladding and will have it applied to our bungalow. In our area (east), this is quite unusual, and we were glad to find someone willing to do it. The savings from plastering are roughly offset by the higher building permit / planning permission costs. Otherwise, our quote is a solid 33,000€ with the Röben Moorbrandt brick in sand yellow mixed tones.

Back in 2020, I asked our general contractor about using a brick from Röben. He obtained several quotes and compared them to his own cost estimates. The result was about €65,000.

He himself could hardly believe it at first and checked various alternatives. The result stayed the same. Therefore, I went with plaster as originally ordered.

It was not typical general contractor overcharging; these were actually the incoming offers for materials, masonry, and pointing.

WilderSueden schrieb:

I would also mention appearance. In the area where I work, the development plan requires brick facades because there used to be a brickworks there centuries ago (even though bricks are rather uncommon in the south). Some houses look good, many look average, and you can easily tell that some just have cheap brick veneers glued on without any consideration for how the house actually looks.
Long story short: if you go for it, do it properly and not the cheap option 😉

For me, appearance is more of the advantage of brick. 🙂 But as always, it’s a matter of personal taste. I envy anyone who lives in a nicely brick-clad house.

I would prefer to use tiles. In our city, there are really beautiful, colorful, and tasteful facades that are tiled.

Ysop*** schrieb:

For me, the appearance is more the advantage of brick cladding. 🙂 But as always, it’s a matter of personal taste. I envy anyone who lives in a nicely brick-clad house.

If it’s well done, then definitely. You can find quite a few in the North. But when I think of our old office... pale red obvious imitations combined with blue metal sheets... a white rendered façade would have been better after all...

For me personally: I would have skipped many things in the new build, but not the facing bricks.