2800 Shell Landing Boulevard, Gautier, MS 39553

Wow, check out this great looking energy efficient 4 Bedroom 3 full bath home with spacious double garage. This showcase home was built with Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) which means all exterior walls are 10'' thick with poured concrete. Talk about safe, sound, and secure! ICF construction means very little exterior noise, fire resistant, wind resistant and high R factors, because there is no thermal bridging in the walls. In building a typical Wood Frame home the insulation is placed between the wall studs. The studs, the headers and the metal hangers create breaks in the insulation which lowers the overall R factor of the solid wall. In wood frame construction these gaps and breaks have been estimated to reduce the R value of insulation by 25% to 30%. ICF construction utilizes continuous insulation blocks of foam in panels of typically 16'' x 48'' stacked on top of each other with ties and rebar and then poured with concrete. Now the building has two layers of insulation … read more …