One of the basic choices home buyers in Central Florida face is whether to choose a house built with concrete blocks or with a wooden frame.Block-built houses used to be the rage in Florida.

“We build only concrete block and we’ll never build frame,” said Lester Mandell, chairman of the company that has been constructing homes in Central Florida for more than 30 years.

Q: I’m thinking of buying a dilapidated old frame house in the country. It has a stone foundation that seems to me to be too close to the ground. Are stone foundations adequate and strong? Is it ...

Types of Concrete Building Systems. Concrete building systems are of five main types: Concrete block, ICF or Insulating Concrete Forms, removable forms, panel systems, and autoclaved aerated concrete.

You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one.Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

The two houses came in too close to call in their wall ‘U’ values at 0.12 w/m²k for the block built and 0.11 w/m²k in timber frame, with block finish, Cyril’s personal winner overall.

This stone foundation was probably built in the 1840s in New Hampshire. It will support a new apartment building with the help of the concrete block for at least another 200 years. (Tim Carter ...

But, Easton admits, it's hard to compete with wooden-frame homes that can be built at mass for less. However, he's created an all-natural cinder block using similar methods as rammed earth.

When flames severely compromised the main house but bypassed the angular guest quarters just downslope, the owners, choosing to stay and rebuild, had their primary material (concrete) and their ...

“Just a few years ago, building a concrete house cost about 25 percent more than a stick frame,” says Stewart, owner of Perfect Concrete, whose average home costs $350,000. “Now, after ...

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has said that the concrete levy introduced in the budget on Tuesday should lead to the building of more timber frame homes. The levy, from which it is ...