Today, the use of various building blocks has gained incredible popularity. They can be used only when it comes to low-rise construction. Sometimes it is necessary to build a house in three floors, for which wood is not suitable, and brick is quite expensive for the consumer.
It is the cheapness of this material that largely determines its relevance. In addition, there are a lot of options for such blocks. Although, it should be admitted, there is still no particular difference between them. The classification is mainly based on such a basis as the method of production of the type of blocks. By the way, now they often began to use granite breccias, they are not very expensive.
For the manufacture of foam blocks, a foaming agent is added to the concrete mixture. It leads to the fact that the cement mass foams, and after rapid solidification, it leaves air bubbles in its structure. This material is characterized by low weight, but at the same time it is still not very durable, therefore, tall houses are not built from it..
In fact, all blocks are only suitable for erecting objects that are no more than 20 m high. They are primarily characterized by high thermal insulation. Although this fact is sometimes called into question. Indeed, in the case of cold latitudes, houses from this material have to be insulated.
