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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
That's what I do for a living.
As very satisfied customers of Rob's, we very much support his array of non-termite food building materials. Our house, built with the Protec wall panels and structural insulated roofing panels, should last, barring catastrophe, a very, very long time. The insulated roofing panels also go a long way to moderating temperatures inside the house. This spring we hope to start an addition using his Rastra blocks, Fasttube concrete columns and roofing panels.
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
That's what I do for a living.
Do you have a web site?
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Assume the best and ask questions.
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We love our ProTec sip house.
David
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Please visit vacation.ninolehawaii.com
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I don't see any indication that buildingbylotus is licensed to build in Hawaii. Buyer beware.
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I just say let the termites have the house. I had our house built 22 years ago with treated lumber and it's still in very good condition (a few termite trail under the t-111). Never had a professional termite company in here. We just use orange oil ourselves (a spray here...a spray there). Eventually it's going to break down...but since we own our house...and we're getting old with no dependants...we don't care.
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Originally posted by John the Architect
The small diagram of a cabin in the lotus website is identical to the Sunset magazine plan my uncle built fifty years ago. My own experience has been that saving money in housing comes from careful design executed with the best value materials you can get. A good architect who can do this efficiently, who can make the architecture serve structure, function, and aesthetics
simultaneously, will save more than the cost of his services. One who is well versed in construction can also explain the process to enable an owner builder to succeed, saving even more.
John Maloney
310.562.0362
johnmaloney3@me.com
Hawaii Architect AR8082
www.jmagreenbuilding.com
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Any recommendations for FAST construction? Modular? etc?
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Fast is very relative here (& I really do mean the related part...)
Our simple electrical service upgrade permit sat in the building department ALL of last fall - ie. over 3 months, for simple a thing like an electrical service upgrade, with a licensed electrician, who is very highly recommended. (I had upgraded the service in both of my previous mainland homes, the electrician took the permit application & power co. approval of the upgrade request into the building & came out with a permit, no sitting for months for a review....)
So even IF your method of construction & contractors are fast, there are many chances here to bog down the process, including material order hold-ups if from off island, permitting time, inspection delay, then add to it all of the other "stuff" that seems to happen here, like surfing weather, rainy weather, working on an other job, relatives visiting, workers off island.... (have heard all of these, a few even on this electrical upgrade that is STILL "in progress" from last August.....)
My advice, don't even try for fast, it will only get you soooo frustrated & 'over it'....I would love to even get slow & STEADY on our project now.....as we are sooo over the slow part of this....
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Originally posted by Carey
Fast is very relative here (& I really do mean the related part...)...
When I worked at Argus we had a sign that said:
Fast
Cheap
Good
Pick two.
