Before moving the enormous dirt pile from the back of the house to the front — and filling in the mote around the front porch — the basement concrete panels were covered with stucco.
Unlike typical building materials, stucco can be applied directly to the aerated concrete panels. No need for the multi-step process of covering [...]
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Today the concrete basement floors were poured! Few things are more exciting to two little boys that a cement mixer shooting rocks and goo out of a tube. So we bundled up in our snow gear and headed to the building site. And we watched the amazing concrete crew in action.
The team poured the cement [...]
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Radiant floor hydronic heating systems use a boiler to heat water that is circulated through pipes that are embedded in a concrete slag. The heat from the water radiates through the cement and into the room.
If you’ve never experienced radiant floor hydronic heating, let me just say it is luscious. If you live in cold [...]
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After all the years of waiting and planning, digging the hole was almost anticlimactic. In our last home, the hole was a cavernous expanse. In this home…well…it wasn’t.
Because of the depth of the sewer line running down our street, the basement can’t be very deep. If we want the toilets to flush, that is. So [...]
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