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Is fernhill stone a replacement

  • 23-07-2008 11:26am
    #1
    mega1
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    Is fernhillstone a good replacment for naturnal stone.


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  • #2
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    If natural stone is required as part of a condition of planning then no, its not a replacement.

    If not, however, then its down to personal taste. One huge advantage is that the stone is structural therefore it can be used without the need for an outer block leaf... resulting in savings in foundations, rising walls, and blockwork.


  • #3
    mega1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭mega1


    nothing has been decided yet i am looking at all things thanks for you help


  • #4
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    If natural stone is required as part of a condition of planning then no, its not a replacement.

    If not, however, then its down to personal taste. One huge advantage is that the stone is structural therefore it can be used without the need for an outer block leaf... resulting in savings in foundations, rising walls, and blockwork.

    Homebond require stone NOT to be fixed directly to hollow blockwork or single leaf solid construction.
    I.E. If you want to use stone cladding, then it must be attached to conc. clock outer leaf. There are no savings in founds, rising walls or blockwork.
    Please refer to Homebond p 68 to 71 6th edition.

    Back to Fernhill....
    Fernhill is a recon stone cladding, but there are alternate suppliers such as stonepanel.ie in Camolin that are using actual stone for their system, but is more expensive than Fernhill for example.
    There are a number of other companies out there.

    If you are concerned about planning conditions, then contact your planner and show them samples for agreement.


  • #5
    Slig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭Slig


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    If natural stone is required as part of a condition of planning then no, its not a replacement.

    If not, however, then its down to personal taste. One huge advantage is that the stone is structural therefore it can be used without the need for an outer block leaf... resulting in savings in foundations, rising walls, and blockwork.

    The only way that this works is if you use Sinnerboys system (it probably isnt just his but he brought it to my attention:D) where you construct the inner leaf of 215 block and the outer leaf is just a cladding.
    I think its daft that this system isnt being used now but no more than pvc windows the cheapest system has becomes the standard.

    Also I think its worth noting that complying with homebond is not a requisite, Homebond are an insurance company so at the end of the day its in their interrest to have a belt and braces system whether its needed or not. Building to the Irish Building Regs/TGDs and planning permission are the only necessary standards. If your builder isnt homebonded then they wont insure you anyway and because of the cost of registering and decreasing profit margins these are becoming scarse.


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