Building A Monolithic, Insulated, Heated Slab Foundation
By Greg Roberts
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Thinking about building this type of foundation yourself?
Just want to learn more to help make your decision about what type of foundation you want in your next home?
Perhaps you are having a new home built on a slab, and you want to make sure your builder is doing it correctly?
No matter what your reasons, you'll find the information contained in this CD an indespensable resource.
It contains over 70 full-color photographs depicting every step of the process, within 98 pages of material in .pdf format for viewing on any computer system.
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The author, Greg Roberts, has been building new homes in Maine for 20 years, almost all of which have been built on slab foundations. Greg has always been interested in providing higher quality houses for his customers, and he has pioneered the use of these innovative foundations since 1987 when he built his first one.
In this CD, Greg gives you the details of constructing one of these foundations from a builder's point of view. The photos are large and detailed, and the text is clear and concise.
Monolithic; refers to the single pour of concrete, which provides a stronger foundation at a lower cost than any other type.
Insulated; because isn't it foolish to build a home and leave ANY part of it un-insulated? Yet this is how so many homes are built even today, with un-insulated foundations.
Heated; because the best heat is radiant floor heating, and it's a bargain to put it into a slab foundation.
Slab Foundation; properly built, it's the best foundation to put under any home, offering the greatest flexibility in design, the highest structural integrity, and the lowest cost.
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The slab foundation is energy-efficient, dry, comfortable, will not grow molds, and offers the perfect medium for the best heating system available, radiant floor heating.
Slab foundations are aesthetically pleasing as well, since they bring the house down closer to the ground. If accesibility is important, the slab is a great attribute. One can gain level access from the garage or outdoors to the indoors.
If "Green" building and sustainability are important to you, the slab compliments those ideas perfectly. It requires less resources to build, and makes a home much more energy efficient, but most importantly, it makes a home more durable and longer lasting, which means that your home will not need to be replaced as quickly as one that suffers the problems associated with underground foundations. Using our old housing stock, and making what we build last longer, is a key element to sustainability.
It really comes down to quality, and nowhere else in the construction of your home is quality more important than the foundation.
Nowhere else can you get the kind of detailed information presented in this CD. The photos alone are worth the price.
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