ᐅ Rhombus Wood Cladding on Bay Window/Extension: Can the Battens Be Attached Directly?

Hello everyone,

We plan to clad our planned bay window in the familiar style with wood. Basically, installing the base battens and profiles is not a problem. The only question I have is whether the battens should be attached directly to the bare brickwork or if we should have the surface plastered underneath.

I need this information to estimate the approximate square meters (square feet) of surface to be plastered.

Thank you very much!

Best regards

In my youthful naivety, I was thinking more of an underlay membrane.

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Hmm, at least a base coat of plaster for airtightness?

11ant schrieb:
In my youthful naivety, I was actually thinking more of a breather membrane.

I would have planned for one regardless of what the underlying surface ultimately turns out to be.

Good morning,
our plasterer also mentioned that a base coat plaster is needed everywhere for airtightness (he recommended this to us especially around the bathroom stud walls, which we then applied ourselves).

For various reasons, we initially built without wood battens. Whether we will add them later is still undecided. They would have been "just" for visual variation, and I actually find our house nice without them as well.

My partner, on the other hand, is still interested in adding wood, but that would raise the problem that, due to the material thickness and necessary substructure, it would extend several centimeters beyond the plaster surface.
How do you solve this problem? Since your plaster layers probably don’t reach the thickness of the wood either, and with typical masonry you can’t build “backwards,” it should be similar for you, right? (the plaster of Edellutz isn’t applied that thick anyway)

Maria16 schrieb:
My boyfriend, on the other hand, is still considering wood, which then raises the issue that due to the material thickness and necessary substructure, it would protrude several centimeters beyond the render.

Hello Maria,

You have perforated sheets at the top and bottom for ventilation anyway, and on the sides, the cladding always ends at a corner for us, so we don’t have any issues there. Or do you mean something different?

Thanks for the information about the render!