With a lightweight material, increasing the house can be done without adding any foundation retrofitting.
When the need for space grew tight as the land, the only way is to do vertical development. Only when the building of origin are not prepared to second floor, meaning at the time will increase we must strengthen the foundation. This meaning is: the huge cost and long processing time.
The addition of this foundation could have been avoided, provided that use of lightweight materials.
Architects who are friendly enough to get a home increase the child’s bedroom fruit and a work space in front of the room. This room occupies the space Attic (under roof), which originally was empty.
GRC Floor Plates
To get the weights are not too heavy, Danang use GRC 15 mm thick with a wood frame to the floor plate. Usually the floor plate is made of reinforced concrete.
GRC (glassfiber reinforced cement) or often called lightweight concrete made from a mixture of cement, sand, and fiber (glassfiber). It replaces the function of the fiber reinforcement is needed in ordinary concrete. This is what makes it so much lighter than concrete slabs. Clearly, working with a GRC is faster than using ordinary concrete. This is because GRC is sold in sheet form sized plywood.
Gypsum wall
In addition to flooring materials, materials that can be saved in terms of weight is the material for the walls. Rather than using brick material is quite heavy, Danang prefers gypsum material. In addition to lighter, the workmanship was much faster due to direct panel mounted. Here used two sheets of gypsum panels, the center filled Glasswool for sound dampening material.
Shortage of this material to the wall is: when tapped the wall will sound like a plywood wall. In addition, the wall is also not strong when nailed to hang ornaments. If you want to put a nail, must be fitted in place tulangannya. But if we are not too happy with a decorative wall that must be nailed to the wall, surely this is not a problem, right?
If you want to increase home with more practical, maybe this can be replicated. It should be noted, when it will experiment with a material, consult with the manufacturer of the material is concerned, so that no problems arise