Concrete House in ONE Day . . .  you’d better believe it

Litecrete lightweight precast concrete wall panels were used to construct the first four 2-storey houses at Lily Garden, A 67-lot residential development at Flatbush, South Auckland. 

The development is based on four house designs by local design studio Mox Design, each house having four or five bedrooms.

The client’s builder has brought time-saving concepts to the table to further enhance the benefits offered in using Litecrete lightweight precast concrete: 

• The panels were painted on the external face and the windows installed at the Litecrete (Wilco Precast) factory prior to shipping

• The timber midfloor and roof assemblies were prefabricated alongside the floor slab prior to the panel delivery

For the first 260 square metre house the 2-storey Litecrete wall panels - 25 external and four internal - were installed in a day; the following morning the mid-floor and roof assemblies were craned in. For the second and subsequent houses the wall panels, mid-floors and roofs were installed in under nine hours.

Because the pumice aggregate used in the 220 mm thick Litecrete panels provides an in-built insulation value, which complies with Building Code H1 Energy Efficiency, the walls were virtually complete at installation and only required internal decoration.

The limited range of house designs offers cost savings in the repetitive use of the architectural and structural drawings, shop drawings and factory efficiencies. “Multiproof” building consents also save costs and with only one external wall component to consider, the number of visits by the building certifier is minimised.

Forget leaky homes . . .  you will never, ever experience “leaky home syndrome” with Litecrete. It is rot-proof, has a 4-hour fire resistance rating and comes with a 50-year transferable structural warranty.