Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Burnished concrete 2Jun 18, 2010 11:22 pm Hi mav, The guy who designed our house has done one with burnished concrete... http://www.cleverdesign.com.au/benjafield.html If you click through the pictures of the Benjafield blades house you will some some internal shots showing burnished concrete. 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ Re: Burnished concrete 3Jun 19, 2010 8:47 am thanks for that, hey small world, i have been watching your blog for some time now (the word glass got me) i am massive fan of urban industrial. the polished concrete and the retaining clearly its not your average project, nice stuff, is it inspired by aussie architect GM??? we are doing a project home so its up in the air whether we can even do a grind becuase the slab hasnt been protected throughout the build, if i have to i will (horror of horrors) resign to a tile Re: Burnished concrete 4Jun 19, 2010 11:32 am Thanks mav. mav999 is it inspired by aussie architect GM??? No, although I can't say where our designer go his inspiration from. We went on a sustainable homes tour some years back, when we had pretty much decided to go with a different designer. But all the houses we liked on the tour were designed by Clever Design, so we went with them. The original designer probably would have been better at the sustainable side of things, but we just loved this design so much. 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5438 i had the my concreters concrete right up to the fence. I have pits all along my path, so the water tends to drain away from the house and into the pits. There's only one… 7 13249 |