CHEAP BUILDING.

Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 4784, 29 December 1904, Page 2

CHEAP BUILDING.

Imagine a five-roomed house being built for £IOO, and built, too, in a manner which insures comfort to the occupant. This is being done now in England by the production of a cheap and efficient substitute for bricks. One firm of builders in Safron Walden have built sixteen neat liveroomed houses in that town at an approximate cost of £IOO each, exclusive of the cost of the ground. The mtside walls are of nine inch solid concrete. The roofs, which are prac« ically flat, are of the same material, and the underside of them forms the ceiling. The floor of the living room is concrete, and that of the front room is boarded on joists, with a cellar under it of the same dimensions (lift by Sit). The firm state that this is tha cheapest style of building for the working classes yet brought forward, while the bill for repairs is much smaller than that of the ordinary sloped roof cottage. Lime-sand brickmakiug, another cheap substitute for clay bricks is having an extensive vogue in Germany and the United States. It is not s patent process but requires a special plant for production. As a scientific building material it is believed to ba so well nigh perfect, but at present the cost is only about 10 per cent, less than that of brick.