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Concrete Homes – your Fortress in a natural disaster

If the area you live in has been subjected to earthquakes, insects and forest fires, and could live in a type of housing that could withstand all these dangers, why would not you? Housing to have an incredible amount of the above and are commonly used in Florida and Hurricane mounted elsewhere, but its popularity spread to the West Coast.

Due to its unique construction, a number of houses have survived the California wildfires. Pat Callahan owns a concrete house outside Escondido only suffered smoke damage in the Witch Creek fire in October. Although melted vinyl windows, the house remained standing.

Another success was the 5500 Lorraine and its house Aledort square feet of concrete near Ramona. Updates at home were:

concrete tiles, glued to withstand winds.

Interior Sprinklers (now a requirement for the construction of premises).

wooden beams to support large exposure to heat more while their smaller counterparts.

An emergency power generator.

A water tank of 10,000 gallons of use in case of fire.

Commercial grade aluminum windows with extra thick tempered glass.

Paredes Outside were a foot thick, including steel reinforcement placed in concrete forms of protection against damage caused by earth quake.

After to spend 3 1 / 2 years building his house, Lorraine and her husband had lived there only a few weeks as forest fires affected. The landscape was blackened, but the house has been maintained, only the damage of secondhand smoke. The construction cost compared to a comparable wooden house was about twenty percent; Lorena considers this money well spent

structural engineer, George Easton describes the specific set Legos Similar construction. "Los" elements "are forms of polystyrene insulation known as specific ways in which concrete is poured. The forms are then left in place to serve as insulation and stucco support outside or drywall on the inside. "

The walls can provide up to R-50 energy and energy require about 44 percent less power and cooling heat 32 percent less on a traditional wood.

If concrete houses are so effective against natural disasters, why What is not widely used? Part of the problem is lack of knowledge in the construction industry for concrete construction. Even if the concrete building with the adoption of national codes, there are many inspectors with little knowledge on how to inspect the structures.

Many manufacturers believe that the future housing demands a common concrete dominant player in the construction industry to present and say "can do" and others will follow.

About the Author

This article was written on behalf of Doug Jones, an award winning San Diego REALTOR

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