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Originally Posted by Tvflguy
We golfed at Mickylee yesterday. While waiting for tee off, I was checking out the nearby new house construction.
Many of them were using precast concrete panels for walls. Being craned into place. So interesting.
Few questions….
The windows seemed to be in place/installed already. Must be very efficient and better quality done in the factory rather than on site.
Seems that some houses still were built by block. I assume some models aren’t in the mix for factory built walls.
Does this type of construction allow for modifications by the lot owner? ie moving/changing windows, door, etc location….
Our Designer home, we built in 2013- we were able to move, enlarge etc. nice feature. Overall I love the prebuilt concrete walls. Seems to be great cost savings plus quality.
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As an architect I bought a block house. Termites and mold don’t cut it with me. Moving a window or two is complex and expensive and very messy too. We bought our house as is, except for cosmetics and are very happy after cleaning the duct work and installing an electric air cleaner and hi-tech water treatment system. We love everything here, the people, and landscaping are well beyond belief. Not to bore you but we had just returned from SanAntonio to find a retirement home and my wife left the next day for golf with the girls to FL. Neither of us would ever live in FL. She called the next afternoon to tell me that we were going to search for a retirement house in “The Bubble.” I had no idea but we now live in Chatham and love it! No houses look the same and 95% of our neighbors are great friends. The other 5% shouldn’t live here anyway. Daniel Mossien