The Ideal "Puna" House Design

[bjbTay]

John the Architect,

I have been out of town and now I am trying to get caught back up with all the great Punaweb information!

John, thanks for the reply. I appreciate inventiveness and don't shy away from it, however we will be using a contractor to build the house (contractor not selected yet) and it would be nice if they were experienced with new materials and approaches to design. When a contractor tells us it is more difficult to install the electrical and plumbing in the Castleblock, and says in the future he will be charging more...we take this into account.

It is a challenging process and we have not completely settled upon any material as yet. However we will be using rain screen wall construction (unless we were to use Castleblock), and as far as rain screen goes we have not spoken to a contractor who is familiar with this...not that it is difficult and of course we can provide them with this information.

Did you use rain screen on your house in HPP or did you use ICF exclusively for your exterior walls?

Also what is IMP?

I appreciate your input!!!
Barbara Taylor

Hawaii Dreaming