The houses cost you more to buy, but owner, savings on monthly bills
You can not, in general, there is a concrete place home if you’re standing outside or even inside.
Laura and David Owen did not know that the two stories high, they wanted to buy the property in Olathe, Kan., featured 18-inch thick concrete walls, reinforced steel. If the owners of great thing about the concrete construction, with gesticulé shoulders.
“We have a decision to purchase the home, on the basis of their looks,” says Laura Owen, whose Old World style home backs on Cedar Creek Golf Course. “We come to love.”
But living in the house for eight years, Owens have experienced big differences compared to their former homeland, a conventional wood-House in Overland Park, Kan. For works, the utility of half the bills have been much more concrete in the house, is also twice as large.
The house is quiet as concrete. Inside the house on a recent afternoon, you can not hear the wind, passing cars, singing birds or a strong chain Surren Trimmer used later.
“It is so beautiful at home, peace rested after a chaotic day of work,” says Laura Owen, owns a company monitoring security with her husband. If in the future, she says, they want another concrete home.
Concrete houses and apartments were built following hurricanes in Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Christy Martin, director of concrete and promotion in the group Overland Park, Monday, receives calls to take tornadoes, including recently that destroyed much of Greensburg, Kan.
“People have been slowly that the mentality of a concrete, like a boxy Bomb Shelter,” said Martin. “One aspect of the house may look like any other house on the block in aluminum or vinyl port with iron, stone, stucco or wood outside. The interior spaces are generally drywalled, so it is also similar to a wooden frame of the house.
Not only potential homebuyers are impressed by what they see, other owners, “said Snohomish County Builder Vladan” Milo “Milosavljevic, said he sold six units or more it has five.
“Everybody was surprised to see quality is an insulation factor [R-54] and solidity of houses,” he said.
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