Glastonbury Housesmith works on concrete residential home in Connecticut, recognized as Concrete Foundations Association’s 2020 Above Grade Residence Award Recipient
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Finding the Right Builder
“The interesting part is, is I get a lot of interest in concrete homes,” he says. “The biggest thing that you have to overcome is finding a builder who is interested in doing something different. Most builders are carpenters by trade. That’s what they know how to do. To build out of concrete is totally new to them and they’re afraid of it. They don’t understand it.”
The builder on this project is someone Purinton had worked with several times over the years.
“I worked with the general contractor for four or five years previously to doing this project,” he says. “He’s a very innovative guy. He’s done many very energy-efficient houses and he’s won some awards in energy efficiency. And he said, ‘I really believed everything you told me over the last few years, but there’s always that little bit of doubt in my mind that what you were saying was 100% true.’ Now that he’s built it and he’s actually been in the house, he absolutely understands what I was saying to him all along. He says, ‘I believed you, but I didn’t.’”
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