Alys Beach Construction: how they build these beautiful homes with quality and speed. 

Glad you enjoy it! Yes, some of suggested it would make a good drinking game. LOL. Working on it.

@@BrentHull haha yes!

Agreed, thanks for watching.

Glad you enjoyed it

Great suggestion! Yes, I'll work on that type of video. Thanks.

We agree!

Nice. Thx.

Thanks!

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I'd love to, I suspect he's busy.

Thanks!!

Thanks again for the insights. There is an American company called Ludowici. They are an 130 year old company that put out travel documents called the Tuileries. The first 12 issues cover different parts of England. I'm glad to understand the regional roof differences based on available local material. Thanks.

@@BrentHull I’ve gone to the Ludowici and searched for Tuileries- nothing came up. Searched for Tuileries as such - only got the data on the French palace. Talking of regionalist, I’m sure the UK are not unique in this but in the centuries before it was possible to transport building materials longer distances, there was no option but to look local. So, people who lived near the Chalk downs - we have the North Downs which arc through Kent, ending up with the white cliffs of Dover; the South Downs arc more southerly than the North and reach the sea around Eastbourne, whilst there is still an escarpment going from Devon to Yorkshire, although chalk is said to have covered most of the UK but been eroded away - had access to chalk, and therefore cement type products but also flint. Flint was, before the Bronze and Iron Ages, the only natural material from which ancient man could make stone arrows, hatchets, cutting blades etc; to see some of these tools over 3000 years old is to marvel at the quality of the flint-napping. After the Iron Age, there was no real use for flint to make tools and so, when chalk was dug up, the flint that lies in belts through the chalk was of little use. Except that it was used as a building material. There are quite a few houses where flint is the only material to build walls. The walls use the flint with mortar but it is not great at the corners. Therefore, you see flint walls with stone or brick corners to the building. If you look at the geology of Kent and East Sussex, we have the North Downs; then, going southerly, you have a belt of low land east to west; this then is followed by the high land of the Weald, again going east to west; then the Weald drops to another belt of lower land; followed finally by the South Downs. All of these belts give different building materials. The progressions from high to low and back again, give outcrops of chalk, flint, sandstone, rag stone, sand and gravel and clay - with natural belts of iron ore within the sandstone. The rag stone was considered as fine a stone for building as the stone from Caen in France. So, prestigious buildings such as the Tower of London, Rochester Cathedral were built with Kentish rag stone. It was quarried mainly just south of Maidstone (it’s all there still today) and transported by barge on the Medway and then the Thames. We have many buildings in the Weald built of sandstone - the church in Cranbrook is an example. Obviously, much softer and less expensive. The clay was also much sought after. Particularly for roof and floor tiles. In those days, the tile kilns were quite small (6 foot in diameter?) but there were lots of them. The tilers were often quite itinerant; for example, when Canterbury Cathedral was being built, a local hill nearby was taken over by the tilers who had hundreds of small kilns in which they made the floor tiles that you can still see today in the Cathedral. That hill, not used for tile kilns for nearly, a thousand years, is still named Tilers Hill. The clay was also used for Kent peg tiles. These were roof tiles made of the local clay (which goes red/brown/orange on firing) and had 2 holes made in them towards the top of the tile whilst still not fired. When fixing them to the roof, they would fix small wooden pegs through those holes into the roof beneath. Those tiles are increasingly expensive to find and buy as their look cannot be replicated with modern tiles. The sand and gravel was obviously used locally. In Angley Woods in Cranbrook is a very large crater; it was known to all the children as the bomb crater but, in fact, it was the site where sand was dug up; transported by horse and cart to Milk House (now known as Sissinghurst after the local Elizabethan tower) to be used in the building of the church. It was not too fanciful to call it a bomb crater as that part of Kent, as with many others, was the ground above which the Battle of Britain took place in 1940. Bombs were dropped in panic; planes crash landed and there were many sites made for Ack Ack guns. That would lead me to pill boxes and other defences made for the imminent invasion by the Nazis in 1940 - but I think I have wandered too far already.

Wow, sounds interesting. I'd love to learn more about it. Thanks.

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Good question. IDK

True!!

I was saying Haydite blocks which is actually a concrete block that has a little more insulation quality. I actually don't know if they used an insulated concrete block, but that is what I've been in the habit of calling concrete blocks. Sorry for the confusion.

Yes, that is my understanding. I spoke to a builder there but didn't see one in person. Good luck.

Yes they do, on the walls. These walls hold moisture, because they are solid masonry. Thus, pressure treated studs on the interior manage the moisture these studs will want to wick away from the masonry. Thanks for watching.

Is that really a good way of solving the problem? Wouldn't it be better with some kind of moisture barrier between the masonry and the wood?

No, the moisture has to go somewhere, and if you keep it in the wall it’ll eat the reinforcing steel.

I know Right! LOL. thanks for watching. I hear it makes a great drinking game. Cheers.

@@BrentHull Right!

No, just a traditional 3 coat plaster.

True, it is very solid. It lends itself best to specific styles of architecture, but it's worth considering. Thanks for watching.

Noted. THx.

YES

You and me both!

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