Continue reading]]> This classic designed home is only two stories but the floor areas are really wide thus allowing large rooms and a really wide living room in the ground floor…

This is an example that your home becomes really beautiful with average priced yet elegantly designed bathroom and electrical fixtures that you can easily find in most home depots.

If you can find a contractor that can understand your budget, you can really make your home a true dream home without having to spend a fortune.

The wide windows becomes even more beautiful when the wide glass windows are installed. For your railings – the popular design today is glass and stainless steel. Stainless and glass for railings is a perfect combination and if you can find a good affordable contractor/supplier with a heart for your project, then you can also get the most of your budget… [See image gallery at finefinish.cbu.asia]

Continue reading]]> In the olden times before fiber cement boards were invented, ceiling for residential projects only use plywood, and thus the support backbone is wood. Nowadays in the age of fiber cement boards, ceiling builders prefer fiber cement boards because it is fire retardant and since you cannot use nails, but screws, on fiber cement boards, then your backbone support will be metal…

Checkout the way we build the metal supports for fiber cement ceiling. It will basically hang from the roof trusses and go across behind the fiber cement boards in a lattice formation so you can screw your fiber cement boards under it. You will need metal furring (double furring), w clips, carrying channels, and lots and lots of fiber cement screws. Depending on the size of the ceiling area, you might need angle bars to hang your ceiling with. During painting, you will need to use screen tapes on the surface joints of the fiber cement boards so that your joints will not break and expose the edges of the fiber cement boards during structural movements. The screen tape will help to hold the skim coat on the edges and joints. You will need skim coat also to hide the screws before painting…

When you examine the way we space the metal behind the fiber cement boards, you might say this is a very economical way of placing the metal – gaps are too wide – well this is indeed a very economical way of doing it – and thus you should not go beyond this type of spacing… If your budget will allow, you can lessen the gaps, but this kind of gap we’re doing is already strong enough… If you lessen the gaps, you will need more metal and it will also make your metal lattice heavier, so just strike a balance between those elements…

In the olden times before fiber cement boards we’re invented, plywood is the number one choice for ceiling builders, but when fiber cement boards became popular – people notice that it is not only fire proof, but is also very flat surfaced and will stay flat forever – it doesn’t bend and make waves over time – unlike plywood… [See image gallery at finefinish.cbu.asia]

Continue reading]]> Insulated concrete forms (ICF) have been used in Canada and the US for the past 15-20 years due to its good thermal insulating properties, and now it’s trying to reach the Philippines.

ICFs are high quality hollow styrofoam blocks/panels that are meant to be filled with concrete at the center and becomes your wall replacing replacing the traditional hollow blocks.

The main advantage of ICFs is it’s excellent thermal blocking effects since your concrete wall is now sandwiched with two thick layers of styro. Your new ICF house is expected to save you a lot of electricity since you no longer have to use aircon during the day. It will also save you a lot of construction time since the panels are piled like lego blocks.

If you add steel micro rebars into your solid concrete wall, then you will have a blast proof and earthquake proof wall since your micro steel rebars will act as metal fibers that holds your concrete in every centimeter of space. The micro rebars technology – replacing the standard rebars is developed by the US Military. These steel micro rebars are stainless and not connected together, thus will not corrode and will add to the life span of your walls.

This is the new construction method that Fine Finish Cebu will be promoting henceforth as it is the future of construction and we want to be where the future is. Though it will cost more than traditional methods, but the end user of the house will reap big savings on aircon use and his structure will be very very tough…

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