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Housing Styles – Fibro Cottage

June 20th 2006 00:30

A fibro cottage

Also known as a weatherboard style, the fibro cottage style of architecture was commonplace in the 1950’s as a cheap method of housing construction used by the Housing Commission in large scale developments. Typically, fibro was used for housing developments in the outer suburbs and brick was used in inner city developments. The method of construction typically featured a timber frame with cut roof framing. Fibro homes were often constructed with corrugated asbestos cement. Due to the cheap design, fibro homes typically did not take best advantage of the block and little attention was paid to aspects such as views, natural light and orientation. The layout of fibro homes usually consisted of boxy rooms leading off a central hallway.

It is now know that asbestos is an extremely dangerous material and extreme caution must be taken when renovating to ensure dangerous asbestos fibres are carefully disposed of. Professional services should be consulted for the safe removal and disposal of any asbestos used in the house. Fibro is still a construction material used today, however, the dangerous asbestos components have been replaced by wood fibres.

Common renovations to fibro homes include upward additions. This is easily achieved as the primary wooden framing offers many load bearing support points. Other renovations to fibro style homes include knock out internal walls to reallocate the internal layout and rooms. Room sizes and shapes are changed. Common spaces, bedrooms, kitchens and laundry areas are moved to different areas of the house to exploit the features of the block.

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