The three little pigs brick house
The Three Little Pigs Houses
[en español]
Materials you will need for all the houses are
- the top of a milk carton (adults should cut the top off for the kids) or use a single serving carton and you won't need to cut it,
- scissors,
- tape or glue,
- a marker
- OPTIONAL: brown paper (we used cut up paper bags)
STRAW HOUSE (three different options of materials):
- some sort of straw... We used packing material, you could also use
raffia or dried weeds from outside (this is great fun to collect on
a nature walk),
OR - use yellow tissue paper or crepe paper, cut into 4 or 5 inch strips. Twist the strips of it into pieces of straw (just roll/crunch them between your palms, like making snakes out of playdough)
- OR
- use the
Straw Template I've provided.
Just cut the sheet into pieces to fit around your house.
WOOD HOUSE (three different options of materials):
- some sort of twigs... Use popsicle sticks, toothpicks or real twigs
from outside (this is also great fun to collect on a nature walk),
OR - Roll pieces of paper bag around a straw and tape/glue to make logs or use newspaper to make your logs and then paint them brown. For more detailed directions, see the instructions for Abe Lincoln's cabin.
- OR
- use the Wood Template I've provided. Just cut the sheet into pieces to fit around your house.
BRICK HOUSE:
- Suggestion from Nicole, one of our viewers: One idea
I had for making the bricks on the brick house was to cut a sponge into
a square and dip it in tempera paint, then sponge the bricks on the
milk carton top.
- Suggestion from Jean, one of our viewers: I have just
printed the sheets for the "Three Little Pigs" story and I have a suggestion
for the brick house, I plan to use legos.
OR - use the Brick Template I've provided. Just cut the sheet into pieces to fit around your house.
CORK PIG:
- Tasha (age 6) insisted that the toilet paper roll pig and pig paper bag puppet weren't good because the pig wouldn't be able to get in the front door of the house (unlike her big sister, this fact did not bother Kaitlyn - age 2 - in the least. She was quite happy with a tiny house and a big paper bag pig puppet to go with it).
- Anyways, Tasha made this craft up and I thought I'd share it with you quickly, just in case you have children who are aware of proportion, too!
- Take a cork from a wine bottle and paint it pink or wrap it in pink
construction paper.
- Cut out a white paper snout (or use a white dried bean), white paper eyes (or use googly eyes) and pink triangle ears (pink construction paper or colour white paper with a pink marker)
- Glue all this to the head.
- Cut out a spiral tail (cut a pink circle and then cut it in a spiral shape) Glue the tail to the back.
- Glue 4 beads or 4 dried beans to the bottom as legs. (arrange the legs on a piece of paper, put glue on top of them and set the pig on top of the glue... This is lots easier than putting the glue on the pig and trying to stick the legs on).
- I'm assuming your container has been opened at some point... Staple or tape the part that you opened closed again.
- Cover your house with paper.
- We used brown paper bag, cut it in a long strip
the width of our carton and wrapped it around the carton.
- We then taped it (you could glue).
- You could use white paper instead.
- We used brown paper bag, cut it in a long strip
the width of our carton and wrapped it around the carton.
- Draw a door on the house (and windows if you want) with a marker
- Apply glue on one side of the house. Glue your chosen material/template piece onto the side.
- Do this with all the sides.
- Cut a piece of brown (or white paper) to be a roof size (ours was about 8 inches x 5 inches for a 2L carton, but it will differ depending on whether you use a 2L, 1L or single serving carton).
- Fold your roof down the middle and then unfold again.
- Cover your roof (top) with the chosen material/template piece. You can actually use a different kind of roof material if you want to.
- Put glue on the top of your carton and carefully place your roof on top.
OPTIONAL:
- You can take a sheet of cardboard (one panel from an
empty cereal box will work well) and glue your house to
it.
- Add ground:
- Cover the cardboard with grass (wadded up bits of
tissue paper or construction work well for this)
or - make a fall scene by adding a few bits of orange/red/yellow
tissue paper or construction paper leaves
or - make a winter scene with cotton balls.
- Cover the cardboard with grass (wadded up bits of
tissue paper or construction work well for this)
- Add trees:
- Take pinecones, paint green (if you want) and glue
to the scene as trees.
or - Take a twig. Cut bits of green (or fall coloured) paper and glue to the twig as leaves. Make a mound of playdough or cut a smidge of floral foam and glue it on the cardboard and stick your twig in it.
- Take pinecones, paint green (if you want) and glue
to the scene as trees.
- Make a path from small pebbles or sand (apply glue to the cardboard and pour sand/pebbles over top. Let dry and then go outside and gently tip is over to remove excess).
- Add a cork pig if you like.
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
Straw Template
Wood Template
Brick Template
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The Story of the Fourth Little Pig
If the idea of building a strawbale house makes you think of the Three Little Pigs, you might want to read the next chapter:
Everyone knows the story of the Three Little Pigs and their tragic struggle with the Big Bad Wolf but most people don’t know what happened next.
Edmund Little, the third pig little pig, was the one who built the brick house that the wolf couldn’t blow down and became a local hero. Due to the success of his wolf-proof house, everyone in his town wanted a brick house, and so he opened a company called “Mr.
Little’s Brick Home Building.”
To build so many brick houses, they needed lots of bricks so they opened a big brick factory that made hundreds of brick every day. Finding clay to make the raw bricks was easy — it was almost everywhere– but they had to chop down a lot of trees to heat the kilns to cook the bricks. So they also starting a logging company to chop down trees to burn in the factory. Everyone was busy and happy chopping, burning, and building with brick.
Eventually, there were lots of brick houses and everyone felt very safe. Even though they felt happy and secure in their houses, they noticed that the world outside of their houses didn’t seem quite as nice as is used to be: the streams were dirty, the air seemed thicker and grayer than they remembered, and there weren’t as many trees as there used to be, but they told themselves that it was okay because everyone had a nice brick house.
Edmund had a daughter named Alice. Alice’s family’s brick house was the finest in the town, extremely wolf-proof and handsome.
It was Alice’s job to bring in the firewood for the house and she noticed that it took a lot of wood to warm her house in the winter and that it was also uncomfortably hot in the summer. If the air outside was damp then the house felt damp and if the air was dry then the house felt dry.
When she got old enough to think about building her own house she wondered how to make it better. Maybe if it had more fireplaces to keep her warmer in the winter and a fan in every room to cool her down in the summer… Maybe she could install a network of tubes to move air around and make it drier or damper as needed… Or maybe there was a better way to build a house than to build it with brick? She asked everyone she knew if there were any other ways to build but was told, “Brick is the best way, that is how it is done.”
But she was a stubborn and independent piggy and she began to try to invent a better way of building, one that the wolves still couldn’t blow down but that worked a little better than brick and didn’t involve quite so much chopping and burning.
She saw that the local farmer had lots of bales of straw left over from growing wheat, and imagined what fun it would be to just stack up all those bales like big, fuzzy blocks and put a roof on and have a house! She told her father her idea.
“You know what happened to your uncle when he built with straw,” he said gravely, “The wolf blew his house right down.”
“This is different!” she insisted, “These are big, solid, heavy blocks, not just handfuls of straw. It will be much stronger and safer than what he built.”
“Ok, if you say so, but why would you want to do something silly like that when you could have a fine brick house someday?” he asked.
Alice was not convinced. She asked the farmer if he needed all those bales and he said he would be more than happy to give her some because there wasn’t much he could do with them. He said that sometimes he had to burn the extra straw to get rid of it to make room for the next crop, which he didn’t like to do because it made the air thick and black for days.
Alice did some research and found that she was not the first to think about building with bales. When European settlers arrived on the plains of Nebraska, they found very few trees — or even rocks — to build with but they did have fancy new horse-powered baling machines and they did have a lot of grass, so they made shelters out of bales of grass. These buildings were meant to be temporary, just to get them through the harsh winter, but some of them were so stout and cozy that they became permanent. She was amazed to find that some of these buildings had survived for over a hundred years and were still standing!
The Pilgrim Holiness Church, built in 1928While doing this research, she heard about a few modern pioneers who had been experimenting with building with bales. So she visited them. She stayed in a tiny house built with straw bales that other past visitors had helped to build and fell in love with the not-quite-flat, not-quite-square quiet coziness of it.
She stayed on and helped them build more buildings and, in return, they were generous with their knowledge and she learned a great deal. She learned that building a strawbale house was not quite as simple as just stacking up the bales: that it needs a solid foundation in the ground, a nice wide roof, a thick layer of plaster to give it good pair of boots, a good hat, and a good coat. She also realized that she needed to know enough about all of the other systems — like plumbing and electricity– that go into building any house.
She came back to her hometown full of inspiration and confidence. She bought a little piece of land near her father’s house and told him she planned to build her own strawbale house. He smiled and wished her luck and then quietly began to draw up plans for a nice brick house to build for her when she gave up on this silly straw idea.
At first, Alice would go to her piece of land and just sit and look. She watched how the sun and shade moved across the land and noticed where the wind came from.
When she knew her land, she planned a house that fit with the sun and the wind and the land and then she began to build. When the word got out about her project, the neighbors began to drop by with questions.
“My horses love to eat hay. Won’t the horses and goats try to eat your straw house?” one neighbor asked.
“That’s the difference between hay and straw: hay still has seeds to eat but straw is just the stem of the plant with all the food removed. There will be nothing for them to eat in my walls,” Alice said as she began to dig for the foundation.
“What if the wolf tries to burn it down when he can’t blow it down?” another neighbor asked.
“Once I have the plaster on, I’ll be safe. The plaster doesn’t let the air or the fire get to the bales, which makes the house very fire safe,” she replied, as she built the sturdy wood frame for her house. “And even if the fire somehow got through the plaster, the bales are dense like a thick book and do not burn well. I’d have time to pack my bags while he tried to get the house to burn.
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“It’s just straw, won’t it rot and fall apart like the straw bale I left in my garden last year?” asked a friend.
“Almost anything will rot if you don’t protect it. Wood will rot if you leave it out in the garden. I will give my house a good roof with wide overhangs and a thick coat of plaster and then it will not rot,” she answered while framing the roof. “In fact, the walls of my house will breathe moisture in and out naturally and won’t ever grow mold.”
“Won’t mice crawl into your walls to make nests like they do in the stacks of bales in my barn?” asked the farmer.
“They are such nice, dense bales you made and I am stacking them so tightly together that there won’t be any space for a mouse’s nest between them,” she said while she worked on her roof. “When they can’t get into my solid walls, they will give up and go back to living in your barn.”
When she had finished building the sturdy foundation and wood frame and had finished the roof so she would have a dry place to work, she went out to the farm and chose the farmer’s nicest, driest bales.
She cut the bales carefully to fit snugly around the wood frame of the house and stacked them in the same pattern as bricks. She cut channels into the straw and hired an electrician to run the electrical wires in the channels. She filled the channels and any small holes with cob, a mix made of the clay she found while digging the foundation and straw leftover from cutting bales. Then she mixed up a big batch of clay plaster and plastered the bale walls inside and out. It was hard work but she loved the smell of the straw and the feel of the clay.
The house she made was not the biggest or the fanciest but it was nice. It was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In the winter, the low sun ducked down to kiss her windows and warm the floor and walls of the house. When she built a small fire in her fireplace, it quickly warmed the whole house and the thick, snug walls held in the precious heat.
In summer, she could open her windows and collect the cool evening breeze, then close the windows and keep that coolness inside through the next day.
The hot, high summer sun couldn’t reach under the wide roof overhangs, leaving her house in the cool shade.
The clay plaster on the walls seemed almost magical: it breathed in extra moisture, making the humid days less humid and exhaled the moisture back out on dry winter days. She never saw droplets of moisture on the inside of her windows in the winter as she had in the brick house where she grew up. She loved her quiet, not-quite-flat, not-quite-square strawbale house and also loved how little chopping and burning had gone into making it.
One day a wolf came to town. The town hadn’t seen wolves in years because all of the houses were brick and the wolves knew they couldn’t blow them down, but this wolf had heard that there was a new house that wasn’t brick and he thought he might have a chance.
He approached Alice’s house and yelled, “Little pig, little pig, let me in!” Nothing happened. He yelled louder, “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!”
An upstairs window opened and Alice leaned out.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I couldn’t really hear you inside my quiet strawbale house. What did you say?”
Angry and a little self-conscious, the wolf shouted “You know the drill! Let me in or I’ll wreck your nice house!”
“No,” she said and shut the window.
So the wolf took a huge breath and blew as hard as he could, but nothing happened. Then he backed up, ran as fast as he could and slammed into the wall. He bounced off with a bone-shaking thud but the wall was fine. By this time, all of the neighbors were watching from their windows, concerned about Alice in her strawbale house. The wolf got mad and decided to burn the house down. He gathered some sticks and paper and lit a fire right next to the wall. The fire sent black smoke up while the sticks burned and then it just went out. Other than getting a little bit of black soot on it, the wall was fine. Discouraged and embarrassed, the wolf gave up. “That house is just as strong as a brick house,” he muttered as he walked away.
That evening, the town had a huge feast to celebrate another wolf defeat and Alice got her picture in the local paper along with an article about her strawbale house.
One by one, her neighbors began to see what Alice loved about her house and started to wonder if someday they might be able to have a strawbale house of their own instead of a too-hot, too-cold, dead-flat, dead-square brick house. Eventually, Alice’s father started to get requests to build strawbale houses and asked her if she would help his company learn. She happily agreed but she did have one suggestion: “How about we rename the company Alice & Father Home Builders?” she said with a twinkle in her eye. Her father met her halfway and “Little Family Home Builders” began to build lovely strawbale homes for everyone who wanted one.
With less demand for brick, the brick factory started making solar panels as well as bricks and the logging company could slow down and plant as many trees as they cut down. Slowly, the streams and the air cleared up, the forests grew back, and the world became as nice as it used to be. And the wolves, who realized they’d never be able to catch the pigs again, learned to like tofu bacon instead.
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What was the name of the pig that built the brick house in the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs"? — Discuss
What was the name of the pig that built the brick house in the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs"? — DiscussSD
Svetlana Dubenkova
What was the name of the pig that built the brick house in The Three Little Pigs? house story piglet
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Vladimir Zabrodin
There the order is; Nif-nif, Nuf-nuf and Naf-naf.
The construction went from a simple one, which means that the brick house was built - Naf-naf.
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Vladimir Zabrodin
Just the other day, the second granddaughter graduated from the UZ and defended her diploma for 5. And her older brother has been working for a long time after graduation. The third grandson is waiting for the results of EGE
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Svetlana Dubenkova
And I have a son, still small 1.5 years old
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Vladimir Zabrodin
This is so wonderful! You have all the joys and worries ahead of you. Good luck to him in life!
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Svetlana Dubenkova
Thank you
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Vera Sergeevna
Nyuf-Nyuf (NAF_NAF, NIF _NIF) - to choose from: Who built the brick doa? .
..THREE STEPS FORWARD!
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Sergey
What, he needs to saw up his property? ))) Probably his name was "Nafig-nafig". )))
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Oleg Vladimirov
There were Naf-Naf, Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif. Seems to be in that order. Then Nif-Nif.
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Konstantin Alekseev
Nuf Nuf. Hello Svetlana . Throw off an interesting link in a personal?
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The last brick house was built, and the last was Naf-Naf
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Svetlana Dubenkova
Correct
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Vladimir
No matter what their name is, this gang always comes in threes
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Valeriy Sonin
Nif-Nif Naf-Naf and Nuf - Nuf = last in my opinion
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Sergey Sokolov
The most not lazy pig was called Naf-Naf))
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Svetlana Dubenkova
Yes
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Igor Thinking
Nuf-Nuf.
And Nif-Nif and Naf-Naf sang and danced.
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Svetlana Dubenkova
No
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Igor Thinking
Naf-Naf or what?
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Svetlana Dubenkova
Yes
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Igor Thinking
I forgot, however!
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Evgeny Shevchenko
naf-naf only not brick, but stone)))
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Oleg Sokolov
They built all three.
Everyone is their own.
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Vadim Denisevich
No less than Rabinovich!
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Anna Gro
I have never met a smarter question))))
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Vasily Tolstikhin
would you like to join the equity?
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Vladimir Osheschko
If the latter, then Nuf-Nuf.
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Svetlana Dubenkova
No
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Arkadij
Where did he find the bricks?
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Svetlana Dubenkova
In the forest
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Arkadij
You made a mistake.
Naf-Naf built a stone house.
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Svetlana Dubenkova
Where did he get cement?
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Arkadij
Managed, rubbed pebble to pebble.
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Sobolev Valery
nah-nah, neh-neh and pooh-pooh.
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Svetlana Dubenkova
No
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Sobolev Valery
yes.
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Alice Fox
Nuf-nuf, Luzhkov, Sobyanin
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Eva
Nafig-Nafig)))))))))))))))))))))
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Three little pigs-2020.
From what to build a reliable house? -Surgut News Partner material
Everyone knows the plot of the tale of the three little pigs. Two of the three brothers approached the issue of housing construction not responsibly enough, as a result of which they had to escape from the wolf under the roof of the house of the most intelligent of the brothers - Naf-Naf. Now, of course, no one will come up with the idea of building a house from straw or wooden sticks, but the plot with the choice of materials for the walls does not lose its relevance. Brick, timber, frame, aerated concrete? The wolf will not eat the owner with any choice, but other equally unpleasant problems may arise with the operation of the finished house.
Let's imagine that the plot of the fairy tale was moved to 2020 and help the brothers make their choice.
Nif-Nif and frame house.
The advantages of a frame house are in the low cost of materials and installation, light weight, which allows the house to be installed on piles or strip foundations, as well as in relative accessibility and high speed of installation.
Such a house can be assembled with your own hands.
The sequence of work is simple - a wooden frame and sheathing are erected on the foundation, the walls can be filled with mineral wool, foam plastic or other materials. In order to prevent such a house from rotting, burning and being eaten by insects, the walls are impregnated with special solutions. It is possible to build a small frame house in a season; under a nice sheathing, there will be no visual difference with a house made of more solid materials. But it is there, even if it is not visible to the eye.
A frame house is short-lived - the service life of such a house is no more than 25 years. After this period, the wooden base begins to rot and be undermined by insects and rodents. It ignites more easily during force majeure, it has much worse sound insulation compared to other wall materials, and the impregnation of the walls, and the materials themselves, are far from environmentally friendly.
It is also important to find a developer who will assemble the frame house correctly.
If, like Nif-Nif, he has hooves instead of hands, then even a new house may have problems with thermal insulation. A frame house is rarely year-round without significant expenses for space heating during the cold period. Well, sooner or later, you will most likely find an animal worse than a wolf under the skin - a mouse.
Nuf-Nuf and a log house.
Timber houses really look like from a fairy tale. The color of the tree, its smell - lovers of eco-friendly housing will be delighted. Wood is lighter than brick or aerated concrete, so a not very deep foundation or piles are suitable for houses made of timber. Lumber of poor quality and drying requires a long shrinkage - from one year, but most modern houses made of timber are built from profiled ordinary or glued timber of good drying. Such materials allow you to equip the interior decoration of the house after the construction of the house under the roof, and the new generation beam itself minimizes the cost of filling gaps due to its shape and grooves, and allows you not to spend much on interior decoration - the tree itself is beautiful.
However, such a tower also has disadvantages. Firstly, high-quality timber is not cheap, and with a complex house design, its price can be comparable to a house from the same gas blocks. Secondly, the tree requires care. Termites and fungus do not sleep. To protect the wood, impregnation treatment will be required, regularity - at least once every 5 years, depending on the climatic conditions of the construction region. Thirdly, fire hazard - everything is clear and without jokes, without a competent electrician you can’t cope here. Well, the last and one of the most important disadvantages of a house made of timber, which few people think about when looking at beautiful interiors in the popular style - the heat-insulating properties of wood with a standard timber width of 200 mm are two times worse than brick walls. Without additional finishing in a real Russian winter, it will be cold in the house, which means that the house will need to be insulated from the outside or from the inside.
Thus, the charm of a completely wooden eco-friendly house as its advantage pales a little.
Naf-Naf and the brick house.
Brick is the strongest and most durable material for house walls. Porous ceramic brick has high heat and noise insulation properties, does not absorb moisture and does not burn. A brick house looks aesthetically pleasing and, with the right construction technology, will stand unchanged for decades. However, there are nuances that the fairy tale with a happy ending about piglets kept silent about.
Naf-Naf, unlike his brothers, would hardly have built a house in one summer or even in one year. Brick is heavy and needs a solid foundation. That is, in reality, at such a pace of construction, the wolf from the fairy tale would have managed to eat everyone. But fortunately, we live in the real world and we have time.
Important: the construction of a brick house must proceed in compliance with all technologies, otherwise the house may crack after shrinkage.
A brick house at first glance seems to be more expensive than alternative options, but if you study the issue in more detail, it will turn out not at all. Maintenance of a brick house does not require special care, unlike others: frame or wooden houses, for the maintenance of which it is necessary to constantly allocate funds and time.
But still, if your goal is a reliable house for year-round living that will serve you for decades - brick is your choice.
Happy ending
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