May 18 2017

The other day we went to a store that we felt would be Romania's answer to Home Depot.  The store even had the same color scheme, and font design for their logo.  It is called Bricko Depot.  That's quite funny.

We went there looking for a small valve for our water filter system.  They did not have what we needed and recommended that we go next door to  a store called Dedeman.  It turned out to be an even bigger better home depot type store, although they did not have the valve either.

While we were there I found this model of normal construction for homes and other buildings we see around here, so I took some pictures.

The construction is of concrete and clay blocks very similar to clay chimney liners like seen above.

They start on concrete and build up the tile blocks leaving places on the corners and multiple places in between corners to have reinforced concrete supports both vertical and horizontal.  They pour the concrete after the blocks are in place.  That makes reinforced concrete structure with clay blocks for fillers in between.

All headers above windows and doors are formed with the clay tile shaped like a u-channel filled with reinforced concrete and then the clay blocks layed as seen above in the picture.  Ceilings are made the same way except they are spaced out with a special block designed to fit in between the u-channel tiles, then they use reinforced concrete for the floor.  They seem to be building many stories tall with this method.  I don't know if there is a limit to how high they can build using this method. 

The outside is plastered like stucco homes in America, and I think they either plaster the inside or use sheet rock like in America.

I found this quite interesting and thought you would too.

Here is a building, above, that is being built with that method.  The window headers are done with concrete headers instead of the clay u-channel with concrete inside.