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Any experience with homes built using light weight autoclave concrete? It's an aerated concrete building product. Wall panels are typically eight inches thick. The exterior gets an add'l application of decorative regular concrete usually about an inch thick. So the ext walls you basically have 9 inches total counting the one inch of regular concrete veneer.
http://www.cement.org/cement-concrete-ap...erated-concrete
I've read the basics on it, just wondering if anyone here has had any first hand experience with a house made from it. Seems decent except for seismic events.
There is a house for sale here built in 2001 by a very reputable local builder specializing in custom homes (doesn't do spec houses) that I like. Fiancee' doesn't like the location real great but maybe she might change her mind. The house is priced under market because the county assessor and the realtors all think it's a stucco house. The realtor could not even tell me the builder, I went to the county building inspector's office and looked it up to discover the builder, contacted him, and found out it's not stucco, he built it using the above referenced concrete product.
It's a golf course property, and that's the main sticking point with the Fiancee'. Back yard butts up to the 14th hole on the Course.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/914-Benbridge-Ln-Evansville-IN-47725/97343169_zpid/
http://www.cement.org/cement-concrete-ap...erated-concrete
I've read the basics on it, just wondering if anyone here has had any first hand experience with a house made from it. Seems decent except for seismic events.
There is a house for sale here built in 2001 by a very reputable local builder specializing in custom homes (doesn't do spec houses) that I like. Fiancee' doesn't like the location real great but maybe she might change her mind. The house is priced under market because the county assessor and the realtors all think it's a stucco house. The realtor could not even tell me the builder, I went to the county building inspector's office and looked it up to discover the builder, contacted him, and found out it's not stucco, he built it using the above referenced concrete product.
It's a golf course property, and that's the main sticking point with the Fiancee'. Back yard butts up to the 14th hole on the Course.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/914-Benbridge-Ln-Evansville-IN-47725/97343169_zpid/