It is necessary to bet on good practices in the self-production of housing: Brava Mix

In a context where it is necessary to make the money work, the use of good quality materials, and good practices for the house constructionare necessary in order to protect people’s assets.

In an interview, Ramón Comella, commercial manager of the company Mix Brava, indicated that, although in Mexico the modality of home self-production It is deeply rooted, usually there is a lack of good practices that can even put the property that is built at risk.

“Most of the time, a mason is used for the self-production, but from generation to generation good practices are lost. That is to say, there are many urban myths, for example, that the bricklayer’s compadre told him that if you add X to the mixture, it will pull better, but it is not true, they are urban myths,” Comella explained.

“Or for example,” he added, “many times it is thought that by removing the architect there will be savings, but this is not the case, because the architect advises, tells you the performance of materials and their performance, so the bricklayer acts as the architect , civil engineer, contractor, whatever, but many times there are certain limitations that masons could have “.

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It is estimated that in Mexico, 57.3% of the houses that exist, that is to say close to 20.2 million, have been produced using the methodology of self-productiongiven the limitations to access a property in the formal market, so alternatives are sought to build, expand or repair homes gradually and as people’s resources allow them.

What are the benefits?

Questioned as to why home self-production in the country must adhere to the best practices, with the best possible materials, Comella mentioned three factors that must be considered in this method:

• Adequate housing. For the specialist, it is necessary that the best practices exist in the model of the home self-production, in order to make it the right space for its inhabitants. “The best practices are necessary, for example, that the orientation of the house is adequate and not put it in the wrong direction, where it is defined if it is a hot or cold house, which often the mason does not take care of”.
• safe structures. Another benefit of self-edification attached to the best practices, is the security that the property must provide to its inhabitants. “One of the benefits of best practices is that you have a home that does not present damage in the future, speaking of facilities and infrastructure, that is, that an earthquake comes and cracks do not appear and that happens many times because there is ignorance” .
• best performance. Likewise, Comella highlighted that another of the benefits of developing the best possible model of self-productionis that the property has the best performance in the long term, that is, that it adapts to the future needs, in terms of construction, of its inhabitants.

“A house with the best performance means that it is allowed to grow upwards or to the sides, or that, if you are going to install a heater, it is done in the proper way, if you are going to recover rainwater, that it be in the right way, because in the end, it is the biggest investment you make in your life,” said the director of Mejora Brava.

In this context, the firm will soon publish, together with other participants in the construction industry, a manual of good practices in home self-productionin order to encourage this model under correct quality parameters.

“We are working on generating a manual of good practices for the home self-productionwhich is a manual on how you help people to have a safe building,” said Comella.

Membrane Brava is a firm that offers industrialized mixtures to the market, in order to have a product of controlled quality. “You have a controlled product, if you make an expansion, you do not have the mountain of sand, the cement, but here we give you everything integrated into a package that gives you better performance. You have controlled the raw material, that you are not going to waste.”