Best is to do like where I've worked before. We used to pour concrete into a big oiled platform that had the design needed for the outside. Then a meshed steel structure was sanked into the fresh concrete. However working that way you need an internal structure to attach it to the building even though they rest one on the other. It's not an all concrete building but the exterior is nicer and its still sturdy as hell.Flecco wrote:
Rendered walls look great too. Tis besides the point.Spark wrote:
Polished concrete can look really nice. I think Sov Russia was ugly because they didn't care...Flecco wrote:
Sure concrete lasts forever. It's also ugly, and hard as hell to alter and... it's. fucking. ugly. You can't say Soviet Russia made for pretty cities.
@ Spark.
Also, polished concrete is very, very easy to fuck up. As are those trippy coloured concrete finishes.
My parents just bought a place in Ft Myers and they had to learn quickly about that issue. Good thing was that it cut down the number of houses they had to look at by quite a bit. The place they ended up buying was built in the 90s. But the smell they described in a couple of the houses they went into was pretty bad...and obvious.Kmarion wrote:
We ran completely out when these major imports happened. There was absolutely no problem with drywall sales after Katrina.ATG wrote:
is it all a lie designed to stimulate the construction economy, wreck the insurance industry and make chinese imports less appealing?
This is a problem in homes built in 2005-08. There is no mistaking the smell in a house with Chinese drywall. sulfur like.. the pipes are corroding.
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― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular