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Affordable building: Building with panelsAffordable building: Building with panels |
| So at Light Home we’ve been running a mini series on affordable building to help you understand where and how you can make your money go further. This week we’re focusing on building with panels. There are lots of benefits to forgetting bricks and mortar and going with panels instead. For a start, it’s cheaper. It’s faster. It’s lightweight, so easier to work with. And it achieves a more modern, stylish look. Traditional isn’t always bestBrick veneer cladding on a timber frame has been the conventional way to build external walls in Australia for a long time. But using cladding or weatherboards is, arguably, a smarter approach.Panels are more flexible with their design options, with different looks and colours available. Using lightweight cladding can also reduce the amount of structural steel needed, as well as scaffolding and painting costs. They are also quicker. Hours of building brick by brick are done away with.  Ec-friendly, cost-effective buildingBuilding with panels requires less trades on site.
We recently posted about the importance of carpenters to lightweight construction. Using panels means less tradesmen are needed. Bricklayers, for example, are not needed at all. And using other cladding materials such as Scyon™ Stria™ cladding, rather than decorative rendering is also cheaper. Instead of laying bricks, rendering, scoring and painting, the whole job is done in one fell swoop. More affordable building tipsRead more of our mini series on affordable building by visiting the Green Undressed blogs page.
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