If you are like most homebuilders, you occasionally run into a home buyer that has a request you haven’t heard in a while. While we can’t help you if they ask for a dog grooming station in their laundry room, we can help you with a few other things they may request.
Here are four concrete-related options you can offer your clients. If they ask for any of these (awesome) options, tell them, “Yes, I can do that,” and then call us. We’ll take it from there.
1. “Yankee” Basement
Your home buyer wants a basement, but they’ve picked the flattest lot in the county. No problem. We’ll put in a full basement – often called a ‘Yankee Basement’ in Atlanta. Before moving to Atlanta, we constructed close to 2000 full basements in Michigan.
You’ll have to include an egress window to meet building code requirements. We have many options available for that. You can also offer an entry door with steps that walk up from the basement level. We’ll also help you with the waterproofing and drainage issues that are unique to full basements.
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| Carl Myers of Heartwood Properties fit this full basement onto a tight lot while providing a stairway for easy outside access. |
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| Nellie Poston Custom Homes is building this Yankee basement on a flat lot in Marietta. The stairwell allows for access into and out of the basement. |
2. Safe Room Under Porch
Instead of filling in that porch foundation with dirt, turn it into a money-making option that you offer your homeowners. We are already constructing tall porch walls for you in this area. So, have us put a door opening in the mating wall; have your slab contractor pour the safe room floor; and put the porch slab on a metal deck. Viola! You’ve just created a safe room, wine cellar, tornado shelter, panic room, gun room, ‘prepper’ storage room… whatever your home buyer can imagine.
You’ll differentiate yourself from the other builders with a great option for an unused space.
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| You can offer your home buyers an optional Safe Room under the front porch. |
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| This safe room that we constructed is concealed by a hinged book case. |
3. Safe Room On Slab
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| The folks at Bercher Homes asked us to construct this concrete safe room for their house on a slab foundation. |
The homeowners for our great client, Bercher Homes, wanted a safe room in their new home. The only problem was that their lot was too flat for a basement foundation. We constructed an above-grade safe room that is integrated with the mono-slab foundation. This is something that can be offered for any house with a mono-slab foundation.
4. Concrete House
What’s better than a designated safe room within your house? How about making the whole house a ‘safe room’ with above-grade concrete exterior walls? Benefits of concrete homes include shelter from tornadoes, falling trees and fires. Other benefits include increased energy efficiency, a tighter building envelope, improved air quality, and elimination of mold and insects.
We’ve constructed the shell for concrete homes here in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. Notable projects include a home in the City of Milton for an ex-NFL player as well as a national award-winning house near New Orleans, LA.
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| We constructed the concrete shell for this national award-winning concrete house near New Orleans, LA. |
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| This weather-resilient concrete house is for a private residence near Cartersville in Bartow County. |
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