Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups?Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

A poor framing job can bring a whole mess of problems, so we asked a professional framing carpenter how to build basement walls. These were their expert tips for framing basement walls.

Deborah and Mark Morey took a chance a few years ago when it was time to add an addition onto their home, using a little known form of construction that uses concrete in the walls instead of wood. … ...

Turn the last stud on the first wall sideways and overlap it about halfway past the connecting wall to create drywall backing. If your floor is horribly out of level or if you’re framing around a ...

Sanford Contracting, North Billerica, Mass., prefabricated the wall panels for the terra cotta exteriors. “Sanford assembled the walls and applied the foam and terra cotta in their warehouse, then ...

It looks like concrete. It even feels like concrete. But the wall surrounding one city development is all polystyrene foam. Now, a quarter-mile decorative wall between Forest Lakes Boulevard and ...

Real Estate News Habitat for Humanity tries building with foam to address housing crisis Organization uses insulated concrete forms to create storm-proof and fireproof housing in Western Mass.

• SPF is being specified more often for both new construction and retrofit applications in the quest for LEED points. • Traditionally a popular choice for roof insulation, spray foam is being used ...

The walls are in fact deep trusses turned on end, to leave enough space to fill with two feet of cellulose insulation. The only major compromise Andrew made was in his choice of windows, where he ...

Injecting foam in that wall will make the bedroom much quieter. • Roofs. From the 1950s through 1970s in the Southwest, many homes were built with roofs that have a very low pitch.

In the demo video, the robot is shown building a circular structure with double-thick foam walls supported by internal bracing.