Who doesn't want the construction of their dream house to run quickly and smoothly? Everyone would want the construction of his house to be completed quickly. Especially if it's his first home. I can't wait to move into the house soon. Yes, the first house does have its own privileges. How come? Owning a home for the first time is a milestone in the timeline of our lives. That's why, we really want our dream house to be completed soon.

However, apart from being able to live in it immediately, the faster the house is built, the more efficient we are in paying for the services of a builder. Especially when you use the services of a daily builder, not wholesale. Daily builders are paid per day worked. So the longer the construction time, the more funds we have to spend to hire builders.

One surefire way to speed up the process of building a house is to use lightweight brick materials and cement mortar as the glue. Both of these materials are generally used to make the walls of the house. The wall is the part of the house that takes a long time to build. Because it includes the most dominant element of a house and the process is by arranging one brick at a time with the adhesive mixture.

Well, the use of lightweight bricks and cement mortar as the adhesive can save processing time up to two times. Compared to wall construction using red brick and cement + sand mixture as the adhesive. How come?

Did you know, working on walls using lightweight bricks and cement mortar can reach 12 m2 per day. Meanwhile, walls with red bricks and cement + sand as the adhesive can only reach 6 m2 per day. This is because the light brick dimensions are much larger than the red brick. Generally, lightweight bricks used for walls are 60 cm long, 10 cm wide and 20 cm high. Meanwhile, red brick generally has a length of 24 cm, a width of 10 cm and a height of 4 cm. To build a wall of 1 m2 you only need 8 light bricks, whereas if you use red bricks you need around 80 seeds. Of course, stacking 8 pieces of light bricks was much faster than 80 pieces of red bricks. Moreover, lightweight bricks have a more precise shape, making them easier to install.

In addition, the use of brick adhesive material also affects the speed of development. Red brick requires a mixture of cement and sand as the glue. Meanwhile, light bricks only need cement mortar. The process of making the dough is faster and easier. Because, it only requires water as a solvent. BRIX MORTAR BM-100 for example. This cement mortar product only requires 10-10.5 liters of water to dissolve 40 kg of cement mortar. Installation is even easier with the help of a 6 mm toothed rosette. The thickness needed to glue between lightweight bricks is only 3 mm.

Meanwhile, to glue the red bricks, the cement, sand, and water materials must first be processed into a dough. Of course, making this dough takes longer than cement mortar dough. This is because more materials are needed. The processing method is not as practical as cement mortar. Then the application also requires a thickness of 1-2 cm between the red bricks.

In addition to speeding up the process of building a house, the use of lightweight bricks and cement mortar also saves a lot of money. For example, if we want to build a wall using lightweight bricks and mortar for a total area of 100 m2, it will take 9 days. Meanwhile, using red brick and cement + sand mixture takes 17 days. That is, we can speed up 8 working days when using lightweight bricks and cement mortar.

Let's say to work on the wall we employ 4 masons with a salary of Rp. 65,000 per day, so we spend Rp. 260,000 a day to pay for the masons. If we use lightweight bricks and cement mortar, we can save money (difference of 8 days x Rp. 260,000) = Rp. 2,080,000 compared to red brick.

It's no wonder that red brick masonry and cement mortar are currently very popular with contractors or people who want to build their dream house. This is because lightweight bricks and cement mortar are proven to be able to speed up the construction process and save a lot of money compared to red bricks.