A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?

Mark Carver wrote:

A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?

possibly "no fines" concrete?

On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?

I couldn't find anything specifically mentioning PRC and rendered block
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom, but I
suppose there could have been dwellings built of that sort.

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Jeff

On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?


Concrete raft?

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alan_m wrote:
On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?


Concrete raft?

does anyone remember "Bayko" - a children's building set at the time?
Steel roads and plastic panels. Must have been based on something real.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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In article ,
alan_m wrote:
On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?


Concrete raft?

does anyone remember "Bayko" - a children's building set at the time?
Steel roads and plastic panels.

Must have been based on something real.

Not necessarily, the model railways werent.

On 05/04/2021 08:49, alan_m wrote:
On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the
last few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a
large pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses,
and why ?


Concrete raft?

Having made a second visit, this might be it. The footprint left is only
the exterior walls, and huge chucks of concrete slabs piled up.
Mrs C reports two days of concrete 'smashing' noise last week. So a
suspended reinforced concrete floor ? The interior walls were block,
and presumably also contributing to supporting the roof structure, so
quite a load on it in total ?

On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?


Dunno if it may help, but googling the words "characterisation study"
may hopefully find a comprehensive council document for the location. I
found mine a goldmine of local information on building history and
amenities features of my local district.

--
Adrian C

On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?

Building materials were in short supply after the war, some right into
the 1960s. Lots of different non-standard building techniques were
tried. Step grandson lived in a house from the period that had two
massive reinforced concrete beams running across the ceiling of the
living room.

--
Colin Bignell

In article ,
Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?

Was it once a council house? Councils seemed to experiment a great deal.

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*Ah, I see the f**k-up fairy has visited us again

Dave Plowman London SW
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