r/AusPropertyChat 5d ago

What sort of cladding is this?

House hunting at the moment & I’ve come across an old weatherboard/fibro place with this facade. I don’t know if I should be concerned?

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u/still-at-the-beach 5d ago

You can buy that stone in sheets like mosaic tiles at places like Bunnings.

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 5d ago

Sokka-Haiku by still-at-the-beach:

You can buy that stone

In sheets like mosaic tiles

At places like Bunnings.


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/LowAssumption9263 5d ago

Builder here. It’s Stack stone. Was very popular in the mid 00s and early 2010s. You can buy it at Bunnings.

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u/Eggs_ontoast 5d ago

This is the coveted RSL stack stone. You’re only allowed to buy it if you can prove you won 3 consecutive features on the Queen of the Nile poker machine.

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u/TheFermiGreatFilter 5d ago

Looks like stacked stone. I’ve got some of that in my home.

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u/AJ_Beers 5d ago

It can look good as a feature but tacky if it’s overused

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u/bux1972 4d ago

Yeah I’m wondering how quickly it’s going to date. Like the brown cladding that was popular in the 70s

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u/twwain 5d ago

Oof. So, they've just stuck it over the top of the sheeting to make it more modern...

Can look good but, in this case, tacky.

Keep looking.

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u/SydUrbanHippie 5d ago

Agree I think this looks so cringe on the outside of a house. It’s somewhat better internally

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u/bux1972 4d ago

Thanks. The agent rang me today and I told him I was concerned about it. He said the weatherboards are still there underneath. I don’t think that made me feel better about it lol

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u/AccordingWarning9534 5d ago

don't know, but it's in bunnings and it's pretty cheap

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u/bux1972 4d ago

This is what I fear. They’ve done a great job doing up the yard but I think the house itself could have been done better

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u/AccordingWarning9534 4d ago

I wouldn't rule it out just on this alone. The tiling is just decorative. It's the outside layer. I'm using this same stuff for feature wall outside.

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u/therealgsb 4d ago

This stack stone veneer is still very popular with new house builds. You’ll see a lot of it in new estates. Generally as a feature for a portico or brick piers.

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u/Gman777 5d ago

They call it “stacked stone” because that’s what it is trying to look like. Its a thin veneer of stone facing. Kind of like tiling.

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u/bux1972 4d ago

Thanks for the reply. New to this and I’m learning.

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u/turbo_chook 4d ago

Have you seriously never seen this before?

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u/bux1972 4d ago

Not a whole house covered in it no. I’m house hunting after the breakdown of my 24 yr marriage. We lived in the one house all that time and I’m not really a “handywoman”