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WEB-EXTRA: Additional Information on DAC-Art Construction From "Be Your Own Contractor: Vacation Homes" episode DBCV-107

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Following below is some additional information on DAC-Art construction from the producers of Be Your Own Contractor: Vacation Homes.

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How DAC-Art Works

DAC-Art simplifies the building process and lowers costs in three key areas:

• Design: Other manufacturers provide cast details that must be somehow connected to conventional building systems. DAC-Art represents a breakthrough by combining the actual structure with finish details in a comprehensive building system.
  DAC-Art standard wall-blocks work as a modular design format. This patented production technology allows wide flexibility in detail, component size, and shape.
  
  
• Building & Installation: Time is the most expensive part of any building process. DAC-Art saves money by reducing job delays, materials and skilled manpower requirements. With traditional construction, costly job delays can be influenced by the weather and the coordination of labor and materials. But here is where DAC-Art can save much frustration and costs.

  Building with DAC-Art is easy. The blocks are dry-stacked (no mortar bed) and aligned plumb, level and square. The horizontal and vertical openings in the blocks provide ample room for conduit, piping and reinforcement. The v-groove block joints are grouted for appearance only. After every two, three or four courses are stacked, concrete is poured or pumped into the block walls to lock them together.

  Since DAC-Art is weatherproof, weather related delays are shortened. The very prediction of rain keeps many of the trowel and paint trades away from the job site but DAC-Art installation can typically proceed in less than optimum weather conditions. Plus it is not necessary to protect your DAC-Art from the weather during construction.
  
  

• Maintenance: Costs in the areas of operation and maintenance of the DAC-Art structure are significantly lower than other building materials over time. For example:
  • Concrete will not rot and is storm and fire resistant.

  • The color is cast throughout the components.

  • Concrete is virtually termite proof.

  • DAC-Art will never need painting.

RESOURCES :

Investing in a Vacation Home for Pleasure and Profit
Author: James H. Boykin
Order this book from Amazon.com
Publisher: South-Western Educational Pub (2005)
ISBN: 0324314116

How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment: New, Tax-Free Methods for Using a Vacation Home for Recreation, Retirement and Investment
Authors: Tom Kelly, John Tuccillo
Order this book from Amazon.com
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (2004)
ISBN: 0071429700

Special Resources for Be Your Own Contractor: Vacation Homes, episode 107

DAC-Art Building Systems
Website: www.dac-art.net

Lundy Wilder's website
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