Stonecraft Construction is at the forefront of residential construction, incorporating methods that ensure a safer, healthier, more comfortable, and energy efficient home. Imagine, Inc. created Stonecraft Construction so that we may be able to offer the residents of North-East Alabama a new option, when they are searching for or are planning to build their DREAM HOME.

Stonecraft Construction is pioneering ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms) construction and is a distributor of the NUDURA forms. ICF construction has many benefits compared to traditional stick-framing. ICF uses a minimum of 4 inches of poured concrete encased in 2 inches of foam.  This technique translates into a solid, air tight home, producing maximum energy efficiency (lower utility bills), healthier living, and ultimately a more comfortable home. Not to mention, a haven from “The Big Bad Wolf”.

Stonecraft Construction is also invested in building with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) that require less energy and raw materials to produce when compared to other structural building techniques and have the ability to drastically reduce waste generated during construction by being fabricated to specifications on a per job basis.  Check out the website of FischerSIPS for more information on this effective energy savings construction method and its health benefits: A home built with SIPs creates an airtight building envelope that limits incoming air to controlled ventilation, resulting in optimal indoor air quality.

Stonecraft Construction also takes an active role in helping homeowners with remodeling projects. Our limits are only determined by your imagination, so dream about all the possibilities. If it falls under the title of home construction, Stonecraft is who you need to talk too.

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Building with NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms provides a variety of benefits over traditional stick frame homes. The need for more efficient and safer homes is important for you and your family. An ICF House vs. Wood from NUDURA will provide greater safety, greater energy efficiency and a healthy home for you and your family.  NUDURA provides a concrete wall with varying ICF form thicknesses from 4 inches to 12 inches of concrete to meet any building type. When compared to a typical wood frame wall that is comprised of 2X4’s and bat insulation the advantage of building an icf house vs wood is far superior.

SAFETY FOR YOUR FAMILY
NUDURA offers your family maximum safety with a fire protection rating of up to 4 hours. With a NUDURA Insulated concrete form house, walls are built with steel reinforced concrete and a non-toxic fire retardant expanded polystyrene foam ensuring maximum safety. NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms provide greater impact resistance and will withstand winds of up to 402 kph (250 mph) ensuring that your family and home are safe and secure in almost any situation. The strength of the NUDURA wall comes from the solid concrete core.

 

“This ICF home withstood an F4 tornado which raked through Arkansas in January, 1999.  Winds up to 200mph caused relatively minor damage to the home, while all other homes in the path of the tornado were shattered beyond repair.”

More Images of how ICF endures can be found at: http://www.icf-dev.com/Gallery/ 

 

Build a Safe Room Inside Your House – Don’t Hesitate to Ask Us What Your Options Are.  

For more information on Storm Shelters visit the following link: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/weweb/Shelters/Shelters.php or
check out the website of The National Storm Shelter Association.

Imagine Inc. is an Associate Member of the:

Concrete can create any shape or size home you can imagine. Because concrete takes any shape or form, it can create an unlimited variety of curves and angles. Concrete’s strength can be used to create large open spaces – offering total flexibility in designing your home’s floor plan.

With a NUDURA concrete home your exterior finish options are virtually limitless:

• Stucco
• Stone
• Brick
• Wood Siding
• Vinyl Siding
• Combination finishes

When it comes to the interior of your home, comfort and style are at the top of every ones list. Interior finishes of a concrete home are not any different than a traditional stick frame home. Drywall or Gypsum board can be easily attached directly to NUDURA wall system using our unique fastening strip located on 8” centers, versus traditional stick frame methods that are on 16” centers.

Timeless Designs

Whether a Victorian gingerbread home or a Colonial mansion, concrete homes are quiet, easy-to-maintain and safe from fire, hurricanes, termites and wood rot. Concrete also can be used to create classic, low maintenance floors with patterns similar to classic stonework but with a look all their own.

NUDURA offers you and your design professional limitless design capabilities when designing your next concrete home. Innovative architectural shapes are easily achieved with NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms. A variety of shapes are available from NUDURA to meet any building requirement, Factory custom cut radius forms, 45° and 90° forms allow you to live in the type of concrete home you have always dreamed about.

Whatever your home calls for, arches, bay windows or specific Door styles can easily be designed into your NUDURA Concrete home. With NUDURA, specialty products are not required, eliminating the need for architects to have to specify specialty products. NUDURA concrete homes can be built with windows and doors that are used in traditional home construction ensuring your costs are kept in line.

Contemporary Designs

Should your tastes lean toward traditional or contemporary, the strength and flexibility of concrete can create a home that looks like the 21st Century and, with minimum maintenance, will hold its beauty and value throughout the next century.

 

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Looking to Build on a Beautiful Lot:

Look no further:   The Preserve at Clayton Pond is an unmatched community perched atop Green Mountain in southeast Huntsville.  It provides picturesque landscapes nestled amongst mature trees and offers the scenic tranquility that is not easily found so close to our city’s center.  This gated community, with views of a six acre manmade lake, boasts spacious lots and a convenient location close to shopping, dining and work.  This is Executive living at its finest.

 

As one of the Preserve Development Builders – Stonecraft Construction can help you choose a Lot to match your home design and preferences. 

 

 

 

 

With Imagine, Inc., both with Stonecraft and Truseal divisions, your continued health is as important as any other consideration.

Building with a solid ICF wall or insuring there are no drafts in a wood frame structure with foam insulationmeans fewer illnesses for your family.

Specifically with ICF, nothing blows through reinforced concrete. There will be absolutely no drafts or cold spots. ICF homeowners have commented on how constant temperatures stay within their homes. Because of the tremendous thermal mass of the exterior wall envelope, temperature peaks are smoothed, and therefore homes are noticeably warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.

There are no CFCs, HCFCs, or formaldehydes, and also no wood to rot and mold. ICFs are the answer for allergy and asthma sufferers. They have a two-hour fire rating and are termite and pest resistant. But most importantly, these structures can withstand a severe storm hit. Have you considered climate change into your future structure’s design?

Our world’s number one challenge is to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that is being discharged into our atmosphere. The earth’s relatively sudden warming and consequent dramatic effects of climate change are directly related to these carbon dioxide emissions.

• Every ICF home saves approximately 8.5 trees and effectively preserve nature’s air filters.
• If we can reduce our energy bills by as high as 40%, we can reduce CO2 emissions by the same amount. The world’s international Kyoto agreement insists on a reduction of emissions by 50% just to slow down the effects of global warming. ICFs are a part of the answer to CO2 reductions.

Most importantly, ICF walls provide safe shelter from severe storms. Some national recognized severe storm scientists state that the United States has entered into a storm cycle with may last another 15 years.

 

A Stonecraft ICF home offers you many advantages over a wood frame home. An ICF home is dryer, quieter, more resistant to mold, and more structurally secure. Stonecraft proudly uses the NUDURA Standard Forms built with DURAMAX Technology.

Today’s buildings demand reliable, robust, high thermal performance building envelopes that provide maximum energy-efficiency, prevent heat loss and eliminate thermal bridging, all of which, NUDURA icf blocks can deliver. These performance criteria are key factors in minimizing energy running costs, while maximizing property value for building owners.

It is vital that the correct insulation systems and materials are specified at the design stage to ensure that thermal performance is maintained throughout the lifetime of the building. Additionally, high performance icf block building envelopes can reduce annual running costs by as much as 70% in conjunction with other high performance products included through the building design.

 

NUDURA Insulated concrete forming products offer:

ENERGY EFFICIENCY
NUDURA insulated concrete forming greatly reduce air infiltration, which greatly optimizes energy performance. NUDURA Forms combined with the structural strength and thermal mass of concrete can provide R-Values as high as R-50, saving building owners up to 70% in energy costs.

FIRE RESITANCE
NUDURA insulated concrete form products offer maximum safety with a fire protection rating of up to 4 hours. With a NUDURA icf structure walls are built with steel reinforced concrete and a the forms have a non toxic fire retardant expanded polystyrene foam ensuring maximum safety.

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE
NUDURA Insulated Concrete Forms act as an effective sound barrier, filtering out unwanted noise, dampening sound vibrations from unwanted outside noise creating comfortable working or living spaces for occupants. NUDURA icf structures create the ultimate in building comfort.

STRENGTH
NUDURA  Structures provide greater impact resistance and will withstand winds of up to 402 kph (250 mph) ensuring building occupants are safe and secure in almost any situation. The strength of the NUDURA wall comes from the solid concrete core.

SERVICE LIFE
Sustainability is also about whether a product can increase overall service life. Insulated concrete forming products allow a building to stay in service longer with reduced maintenance costs compared to traditional construction. Buildings that have to be torn down after 50 years because the materials used in the first place were chosen on a cost basis, or on short term benefits, ultimately, have greater consequences on the environment

 

Beauty Is In The Eyes Of The … Buyer

Drive up to a new home today and you probably cannot tell how that home was constructed.

That’s because the “skin” covering a home – whether it’s brick, vinyl siding, or stucco – provides the same finished appearance whether it’s placed over wood-frame or concrete construction. How can you tell what type of construction is behind a home’s veneer? The walls in an unfinished garage or basement may give you a clue.

But the benefits of solid concrete construction aren’t apparent at first glance. They only show up after the home is purchased – in the form of lower maintenance costs and lower energy bills. So, to be sure you make the right home buying decision, always ask the seller or builder what type of construction is behind that beautiful exterior.

 

Low Maintenance = Ownership Made Easy

The beauty of a concrete home is that it requires far less work on the part of the homeowner to keep it looking like new.  What are the three most common causes of exterior wall maintenance? Termites, rotting and paint peeling or fading.  Concrete homes are rarely, if ever affected by termites or rot. As to paint, while some contemporary concrete homes have wood siding, most have a stucco or brick facade. Some use a concrete texture or other concrete products as finishes. None require painting.

All of this translates into a concrete home costing less to own than a wood-frame or wood veneer home.

Protecting the environment, limiting waste, and providing your family with a healthy living condition is a major focus at Imagine, Inc. 

 

NUDURA ICF Wall System HIGHLIGHTS: 

RECYCLED MATERIALS – NUDURA ICF block systems are manufactured from EPS. NUDURA’s unique DURAFOLD Technology web design is manufactured from 100% recycled polypropylene and steel. 

BUILDING DURABILITY – NUDURA  ICF Blocks offer a structure built out of Concrete, one of the most durable and energy efficient building materials, resulting in buildings that stand the test of time. Building with NUDURA also offers maximum safety in high wind areas due to its high impact resistance. 

WASTE REDUCTION – NUDURA offers unique technological ICF Block design which create less waste during the construction process, sending less waste to our landfills. *All waste is 100% recyclable 

MOLD RESISTANT– NUDURA Forms have been laboratory tested and will not support mould growth. 

ENERGY PERFORMANCE – NUDURA® ICF Blocks significantly reduce the amount of carbon emissions, due to the structures high energy efficiency levels, reducing the amount of fossil fuels needed for heating and cooling reducing your carbon footprint. 

IMPROVED INDOOR AIR QUALITY – NUDURA eliminates air gaps, minimizing the potential formation of mold growth and draft paths. The end result is an airtight structure that enables building mechanical systems to heat, cool and ventilate the icf block structure more efficiently, creating a healthier living and working environment for building occupants