MATERIALS - BUILDING

WALLS

The most common wall materials in ascending order of value with useful fieldbook codes are as follows:

1. wood (w) - weatherboard (wb)
2. asbestos cement (ac)
3. concrete (c)
4. "weathertex"
5. brick veneer (bv)
6. stone/freestone (s)
7. block (bl)
8. bluestone (bs)
9. brick (b)
10. brick with cement rendering (bc).

Alternatively, a number code used by the South Australian Valuer General is as follows:

1. brick (1)
2. iron (2)
3. rendered (3)
4. asbestos/weatherboard/ log (4)
5. freestone/stone (5)
6. bluestone (6)
7. basket/range (7)
8. block (8)
9. transportable/other (9).

ROOF

The most common roof materials in ascending order of value are:

1. corrugated steel (cs) (do not use "iron")
2. corrugated asbestos cement (cac)
3. cliplock (cl)
4. cement tile (ct)
5. colorbond (cb)
6. terra cotta tile (tct)

In some areas colorbond is as expensive as cement tile. An alternative number code used by the South Australian Valuer General is as follows:

1. tiled (1)
2. galvanized steel (2)
3. corrugated asbestos (3)
4. steel deck (4)
5. imitation tile (5)
6. slate (6)
7. asbestos shingles (7)
8. other (8).

The materials used in the house can be described using the above codes. For example, ac/ct means a house with asbestos cement walls and a cement tile roof. Trade names such as 'fibro" should be avoided whenever possible. Corrugated steel or corrugated metal (cm) is used instead of "corrugated iron" as the material is steel and not iron.