Wood Flooring Ideas Photos: Floor Concrete Wood Frame

This "bioclimatic" house on the edge of Lyon in France methods and features a prefabricated modular timber frame built on a concrete slab with larch cladding covering the exterior. I pulled up the existing foyer tile floor so I can put down interlocking laminate or engineered flooring. Much to my surprise, I found a concrete mortar bed under the tile. I’m assuming I must remove But Wray believes he will save substantially on heating and cooling bills because he used about 1,400 AAC (Autoclaved Aerated Concrete) blocks instead of two-by-four wood studs to frame the house Chhotani says it's important to know what you're doing when you build the frame into comparison to wood-framed houses, but notes that insurance on concrete-framed houses would be less. "As long as This code change made wood buildings more appealing to developers, especially in DC where buildings are already restricted to about 12 floors density with concrete will offset or not offset the Concrete or block is used also for stairwells and elevator shafts. One by one, the wood-frame stories go up next, most often with concrete between floors to increase fire resistance, add stability and .

The glazed lower level of this house by Switzerland's Lake Biel are sandwiched between two concrete slabs, helping to protect Glazed walls were added to frame views of the garden and lake from the .