Single Brick House Questions

alipickard · 2019-07-30T08:40:39+00:00

HI, I've been reading about single brick House difficulties. I'm thinking about buying an old cottage which is single brick. Nobody can get a mortgage on it- and the price hs obviously been reduced because of this. I would be cash buying. Questions are would professional good quality external wall insulation make it mortgageable in the future(I'm not planning on flipping, I'd like to live there for years) or does it always remain unmortgageable unless a second layer of brick and cavity is built? I think the cost would be about £15,000 for externally insulating a small 3-bed bungalow/cottage?I haven't found information about building a second brick layer on an existing house-Is this never done/is it too prohibitively expensive, or too complex because of the problems of building around an existing house?Thanks

Jul 30, 2019 Last reply: 6 years ago 24 Replies

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The Natural Philosopher 6 years ago

I lived in onr of them fir 10 years - labourers cottage

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The Natural Philosopher 6 years ago

Utter bollocks

(I'm not familiar with the terminology.)

No. That was luxury.

Rows of terraces, and in the country, cottages, were built half brick.

unless they were big

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Tim Streater 6 years ago

I'm not small enough to live inside a single brick, which in any case has no inside, being filled up with ... brick.

So I can't help you.

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newshound 6 years ago

Would you agree that these days, many mortgage companies would probably not consider financing that sort of construction?

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The Natural Philosopher 6 years ago

Dunno.

If nothing else, the land on which it sits is worth more than the house.

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