Nature lovers may love to live in a wooden house. However, it is hard to get high-quality wood nowadays. Even if there are high-quality woods, the price must be high.
Having walls that look like woods are nice, but it takes time to have a true surface color of the board-formed concrete finally. Another thing to solve your problem is to have concrete block forms to separate spaces.
You can contact a concrete company to have the forms, or you can ask your engineer to ask his team to do it for you. See what you should know about the forms of a concrete block.
Concrete Block Forms
There are many forms of concrete blocks that concrete companies can offer to their customers. Dividing two rooms or spaces and blocking people’s view is no longer a problem with concrete block forms. See the ideas of the form of concrete block that you can choose below.
- Large Block Forms: these forms are for aggregate bins, parking lots, retaining walls, wellhead protectors, ramps, waste transfer sites, and silage pits.
- Small Block Forms: these forms are for home retaining walls and planters.
- Starter Block Forms: these forms are for parking areas and other areas with jersey barriers to prevent vehicles from scratches.
- Block Form Liners: these forms have plastic liners inside to make decorative fronts. Obviously, people can use them everywhere as walls to separate two spaces.
Solutions for wood lovers
Nature lovers or wood lovers, to be exact, don’t have to worry anymore. There is a solution for you to consider. It is the board-formed concrete the solution is. What do you know about this? Before we talk more and more about this, let’s see the advantages and disadvantages of living in a wooden and concrete house.
- Concrete: as we know that concrete is durable, needs low maintenance, doesn’t get rust, can resist water, wind, and fire, can retain and absorb heat, resist sound effectively, etc. Concrete, however, is expensive, slow to build with, prone to efflorescence, very heavy and difficult to transport, less versatile, etc.
- Woods: we know that woods are flexible, versatile, easy and light to transport, biodegradable, etc. However, woods can’t stand fire, prone to get mold, moisture, dirt, noise, and floor cracking, not soundproofing.
Now, how about living in a house made from concrete but can still have the wood texture on the walls? Don’t you think it’s great? If you are interested in having this kind of concrete wall and a bit confused about the wood texture you will see for a long time, see the tips below.
Tips to get a fine concrete wood finish
- You should have a great color consistency and cohesiveness by having the same materials, color, and proportion and minimizing variation.
- Be careful with form face selection. Make sure the form face you choose to shutter is not split, rough, and uneven.
- Discuss with your architect about placing and compacting the concrete. Tell him/her that you want a defect-free surface finish.
- Also, ask your architect to explain how he/she and his/her team deal with formwork pressures for shuttering the walls, final clean, aesthetic value, etc. Get clear about these things.
So, what do you think? Are you more persistent now to upgrade your house with the concretes mentioned? Hopefully, the article about board-formed concrete and concrete block forms can inspire you.
