Thermo construction block

[Yoshi]

Scunner you keep saying this and they may well be but they do come in differant thicknesses  and supposedly differant thermal qualities. Although you had 0 found on your google search there is a infact  an English site that discusses this.
I accept they may be rubbish for insulation purposes but it appears they are used widely in Turkey and not every one I have spoken to, including residents of Uzumlu, are unhappy with them.
There does not appear to be too much choice when building in Turkey.

[scorcher]

We may now be on the home straight....... maybe!

[Scunner]

Scunner you keep saying this and they may well be but they do come in differant thicknesses  and supposedly differant thermal qualities.

When doing your research on the internet you will find different types with different thicknesses and that could mean different levels of insulation. In Fethiye you will find pretty much one type, made in Denizli as far as I know. And that one type is crap. That one type is the type the developer you are considering uses (just like pretty much everyone else) and shown in the photo I posted of the property on housing development you are considering.

There does not appear to be too much choice when building in Turkey.

Correct. Locally, there is the one type of terracotta pot, and there are other options available, like white Thermalite and Thermalite type blocks.

[Scunner]

We may now be on the home straight....... maybe!

No I have been doing this a while now, I think I will have to say the same thing another 3 times at least. We can see this developer's blocks in the photo from the developers website and they are the crap one everyone uses. No magical thermal quality, no fancy reference or name. Standard local pots.

[Scunner]

Oh and

they are used widely in Turkey and not every one I have spoken to, including residents of Uzumlu, are unhappy with them.

Then you are talking to idiots, name and shame them

[Colwyn]

There does seem to be a bit of a point lurking in all this wrangling. If ALL construction materials in Turkey, at least in the Mugla province, are cr*p then what is the point in doing research on them?

[JohnF]

Our family home was built with them.

Was it indeed.  Should have got a decent builder then mate.

Our place in Karagozler is built with concrete blocks, hand poured on site by a harem of dusky maidens and transported to the third floor by a team of specialist Kazakhstani brick carriers.  The mortar was mixed with same care applied to the finest gozleme batter using a silver plated "stirry thing".

Unfortunately from that point onwards Emrah's wee bricky (the one with the severe astigmatism in his right eye) did the rest. 

If only Marks & Spencer built villas and apartments.

JF

[Scunner]

I didn't have it built!

[JohnF]

You could have had them replaced you know?

"Problem yok my friend, problem yok.  Me and my five brothers will have all those nasty clay brick replaced by Wednesday"

JF

[Jacqui Harvey]

Wrong J.F.  It is me and my 10 Brothers, each one with a different trade.  They will tell you it is their problem now... Heard that a lot in Turkey.