Progress is being made on our new home.
Bryan continues to work nightly and every weekend to keep the project rolling forward. Here are some pictures of the massive stacks of foam "Lego's" that will soon be our basement walls. Instead of doing concrete blocks for our basement walls, you put together a massive puzzle of foam forms. In between the forms goes poured concrete. When the concrete sets or hardens, you have cement walls instead of block walls. A great bonus to this type of basement is that we increase our "r" value or insulation rating and we can attach the sheet rock directly to the foam on the inside. This means we don't have to frame up the exterior walls with 2x4's?Too much shop talk for those of you that aren't "handy"? Take a look at the pics, it will make much more sense.
2 comments:
How do you attach the sheet rock? Do you just screw the sheet rock into the foam? That's Crazy!! I'm guessing the foam has to be pretty thick if that's the way you do it. I love the pictures keep them coming!!
The foam forms have a special plastic that is spaced out and noted on the foam. Your sheet rock screws sink right into the plastic...it's going to be so nice to NOT have to fir out the exterior walls.
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