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>>1560138

So why don’t you use aerated blocks instead? These are quite common in Britain for the inside skin on a cavity wall, although timber framing is becoming increasingly popular.

They’re also sometimes used for internal partition walls and were used more frequently in the past decades for such purposes than they are today where stud walls are usually put up.

All but one of the walls in my house use them and the one that doesn’t was put in after it was built.

Makes it nice and easy for fixing stuff to the wall and you don’t need a super powerful drill to bore through them either. You can screw straight into them, but the screw won’t go back in tight if it’s taken out.

I’m no bricklayer or mason, but your meme bricks seem like they would be complete shit compared to something like this.

How do you fix into them for second fix carpentry like door frames and mouldings? What about kitchen units?

Say you wanted to run cable or pipework in the wall, can you just cut a channel in them with a grinder and plaster over it?

They seem like they could be so easily smashed about because of all the hollows. How would one hold up against a few hammer blows?

Does the mortar between them not seep into the hollows? Without a solid base for the mortar to sit on between the bricks I can only imagine it would be very weak and crack up easily when dry?

Also? Having looked at your pictures, are houses not built with cavity walls in Croatia? Or am I missing something?