The Iran-Israel-U.S. war has definitely caused worldwide skyrocketing of energy prices as when oil price increases, everything else increases, and your electricity bill will certainly follow suit. The price of electricity can never go down again and could in fact keep going up as more conflicts around the world are expected to happen as we …
A non-profit contract is a contractor’s way of giving back to the community. It is usually offered to customers who can use a huge discount such as religious organizations (depending on the religious affiliation of the contractor); charitable institutions such as orphanages, shelters for the poor and the homeless, and other similar institutions; young couples …
If you’re building a home in the Philippines—especially in the hotter areas of the country like Cebu, Iloilo, Bohol, and most southern areas of the country, comes with a major challenge: the heat. Most traditional concrete hollow-block homes turn into “ovens” during the afternoon, leading to high electricity bills from air conditioning. Your home should …
Right during pandemic all the way to the current wars happening in Ukraine and now Iran, moving ICF blocks from the US or Canada to the Philippines or Asia have become impossible due to the shipping costs and logistical hoops. ICF builders tried to get ICF from China but the quality is not the best …
This farm house have very spacious kitchen and living room. The bedrooms are bigger than most average homes in the country today. The entire ground floor is an open type space designed for a backyard farming type of living as the lot is more than a thousand square meters nestled in the middle of a …
ICFp or insulated composite concrete pre fab wall panels is your next great choice if the original ICF (Insulated Concrete Form) is currently beyond your budget range. These insulated pre fab wall panels costs lower than ICF but is slightly faster to build but its major difference is that the factories are only in major …
Here in the Philippines there are major stumbling blocks when trying to build an ICF Insulated Concrete Forms home. The stumbling blocks are: 1. Local building code requires columns and beams; 2. Its very hard to find a concrete conveyor. Ready mix concrete companies here usually only have high pressure pumpcrete; 3. Workers need in …
The footing in an ICF build is a continuous footing since the entire wall of an ICF build is a load bearing wall that needs to be continuously supported. For a 2-3 story ICF house with 6 inches thick cores, footing size is prescribed to be 30 by 60 cm footing with four pieces of …
Here now is the answer to make cooler homes. Westerners mostly Canadians and Americans who like to have a vacation home or retirement home in the Philippines can now enjoy our tropical climate in their own insulated homes using insulated concrete forms on their walls. Sometimes usually during summer the heat is just unbearable and …
If you have not originally planned to turn your residence into an apartment – rental rooms, then you have not also designed your electrical connections to have a submeter to read the electrical consumption of each room/unit. You will have to do some electrical modifications to your current circuit. To connect a sub meter, you …
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