[eremite06]

Originally Posted by Shimpy

Lived 90% of my life in Fla. and always had a CBS (cement block stucco) home until now in TV. I can tell you one less than obvious difference, it is not as sound proof. We can hear our neighbors talking through the walls of both houses. Just got my electric bill though and it is lower than I've ever got in a CBS home in this kind of heat, ($122.) Is a frame home better insulated ?

I live in a CBS. When I was a RE appraiser doing cost approach to value, I noticed frame had higher R values for insulation. Everything kind of evens out considering your amount of windows.

[Shirleevee]

Originally Posted by smalldog

Smalldog Sez
we had a CBS in Sebastion and had the cards fallen differently we would have prefered CBS here but only because of the storm issue ........ also come to find out almost all the Lightning strikes are on CBS homes ... Don't know why or even if my info is correct

Since I have been here (2008) the homes struck by lightening were all CBS.........

[JohnN]

Pat, ask the Arch. Review Board what you'd like to do or consider, and they give it a yea or nay.

I like our frame home, I think it's simpler to maintain.

[skip0358]

When we started looking we only looked at CBS homes. It may sound silly but I thought of the big bad wolf story. I like my CBS home and don't think cracking will be much of a problem at all. Just a personal issue. To each their own.

[mgman]

Sounds to me like the concern about the cracking is not an issue. I'm not seeing many people that have had or even knew of the problem. I have been leaning towards cbs because of the big bad wolf theory.

[gingin410]

Our son is a Florida Nat'l Guardsman currently in Iraq and he insisted we buy only CBS. His reasoning was based on flying over Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana in a Blackhawk helicopter after hurricanes and tornadoes where CBS homes were still standing...maybe not much else besides walls; but was better than frame homes that were completely gone!

[Campbell soup]

Did you ever hear of the three little pigs?

I chose cement stucco....beautul home....no problems.

[swrinfla]

Not too far from me in Sunset Pointe an owner is just now nearing completion of a massive "rebuild" of his original frame/siding home, by removing the siding, replacing it with what I'd guess is really "faux" concrete, complete with corner "blocks!" An amazing re-do (and a great deal inside as well).

Point being, he may have decided he liked the "sturdier" feature of CBS.

Mine is CBS. The blocks were filled with insulating foam, so I feel pretty isolated from the elements. And, while not on a thru street nor with noisy neighbors, so a low level of noise, I certainly don't hear much of anything!

SWR

[rabonkmontage@msn.com]

Stucco or brick never go out of style.