Episode 81 - A Builder’s Take on The WA Brick Shortage

So what does it look like noise transfer-wise and thermal-wise? So that's a big question that a lot of clients ask.

Yep.

The whole solid versus hollow

fill.

Yeah.

Noise is two parts, internally, and then there's noise, the external noise factors.

Okay.

So can we go internal noise transfer first?

Yep.

Is there transfer? Yes, sure.

Can you do things to mitigate that? Absolutely.

So I think at the moment, as of today, we're using an R2 bat internally.

I think we're looking at potentially changing that to a two and a half.

There are also some acoustic bat options which might not be as good firmly but really good for noise transfer.

There's plenty of things you can do.

And, again, this is a construction method that's used everywhere around the world so it's not abnormal.

But, yeah, there's plenty of things you can do to mitigate that.

Well, like, fuck, we were in Switzerland.

Right.

And that,

that two story place that we were overlooking the fucking mountains with the, with the, with the cow that kept fucking dangling every morning.

That was, there was no air con and like it was warm during the day and like cold at night.

And that was a fully framed house.

Yeah.

It was a big fully framed, cause I could tell it was actually brick veneer cause the outside was brick and inside it was all fucking, um, all, all gyprocked.