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Because Timbercrete® is such a unique building product, we find our customers become quite passionate about their homes. Here are just a few comments we have received:
Timbercrete® home owner, Jan Mc Ewan |
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Dear Joy & Jeff
I have been living in my Timbercrete house for 3 years and have enjoyed every moment.
After having lived in many houses here and in Melbourne (timber, solid brick, brick veneer, cement brick, etc) I have no hesitation in saying that Timbercrete is the most comfortable building product that I have experienced – the insulation qualities; warm in winter, cool in summer, the ease of being able to hammer or screw directly into the brick, the appealing ambience the natural brick gives, and of course the interest and positive reaction that is given from all who see my house.
I believe that councils and builders should be encouraged to recommend Timbercrete, together with all aspects of building environmentally sustainable houses. My only regret is that I took so long to build, as I heard about Timbercrete in about 2000.
Yours Faithfully, Jan Mc Ewan
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Timbercrete® home owner, - Kurrajong NSW” |
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“As an Architect I am always on the lookout for new and improved building materials. When it came to building my own home I selected Timbercrete® not only because it satisfied a number of technical requirements, but also because it provided aesthetics that were unavailable in any other viable construction medium.” |
Timbercrete® home owner - Judy Collier, Bilpin NSW. |
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Our new home felt cozy and welcoming even before it was furnished due to the texture and colour of the Timbercrete® walls. An extremely common comment made by people, especially women, visiting our home for the first time is “This is the sort of home I want to build!”. |
Timbercrete® home owner - John Bryant, Berambing, NSW |
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“Our Post & Beam Pty Ltd kit home represented my first owner-builder experience. Even though the walls are not load bearing and usually constructed from mud brick, I chose Timbercrete for a variety of reasons, including quality and aesthetics. I was impressed with every aspect of Timbercrete during the building process, and even more impressed now that I have lived in the house since 2001. Visitors often assume we are running either heating or air-conditioning, when in fact we are not. The home retains winter warmth far better than our previous full-brick home, and also remains cooler in summer. The thermal qualities are fantastic." |
Timbercrete® home owner - Rob Porteous (carpenter), Bilpin, NSW |
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“I decided to personally build my own Timbercrete® home. I’m no Brickie, but I decided to do all my own block laying. By following a few simple rules I ended up with a great result, and the overall aesthetics are impressive. The blocks are very robust and easy to work with; they are very easy to cut, drill and nail. I was on a really strict budget and I reckon Timbercrete® has allowed me to create a top quality home at an incredibly low cost.” |
Timbercrete® Builder - Post & Beam Pty. Ltd. |
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Read the glowing endorsement for Timbercrete by David Baetge Managing Director of Post & Beam Pty. Ltd.
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Timbercrete® School Construction - Lyn Beinat Project Manager, Gisborne Montessori School |
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"We have almost completed the second of three identical buildings to be used as classrooms at the Gisborne Montessori School.
The first building was completed and commissioned in Jan 2004 and after having experienced the thermal qualities of the first building we were confident enough to build the second building with no air conditioning as well!
It is always nice to hear parents comment on the coolness of the first building when they come to pick up their kids on hot summer days and even though we got some aspects of the design of the first building wrong, ie, not building an air lock which would have saved a lot of air flow into the building as children are in and out of the classrooms all day long, and also the installation of aluminum framed windows (some of which are singled glazed), the building nevertheless performs wonderfully.
In winter, the classrooms are toasty warm and cost very little to heat.
In our opinion, the current energy rating system does not do justice to the performance of Timbercrete.
My husband Maurice, who is a licensed energy assessor, has extrapolated the rating for the second building under the first rate system and says it should rate 8 stars if the system went that far.
The children love it, the teacher loves it, and as parents we love it because we know our children are learning in the best possible environment.
And the school bursar loves it as there are no air conditioning costs at all." |
Timbercrete® home owner - John and Gill Nuyten, Blackmans Bay, Tas. |
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Late in 2006 our designer suggested that we investigate Timbercrete® bricks for a house that we wanted to build in Blackmans Bay.
At our first meeting with Geoff and David in Margate we were impressed with the appearance of these hand-made bricks and with the fact that we could select a colour and design to suit our specific requirements.
As important were the insulation properties of the product - nearly four times the thermal and sound protection of standard house bricks.
Through a test phase Geoff and David provided the highest level of service. Nothing was too much trouble. They even made up several samples of mortar so that we could judge the right colour to give us the end look that we were after. They also arranged a bricklayer, Wayne, who has given us similar outstanding service and willingness to meet our individual needs. All this has been much more than we might have expected from a regular masonry supplier.
Now the brickwork has been completed we are even happier. We like the end result.
We extend our thanks to the team at Timbercrete®. We feel sure that they will find wide acceptance in the building industry in Tasmania and that home-owners will come to appreciate the quality of the product, particularly for the superior insulation and the one-off, hand-made finish. |
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