How a concrete home is built in Florida, by Gordon Berken. Paul Davis Rest. Broward and North Miami
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- Gordon Berken of Paul Davis Restoration of Broward and North Miami in South Florida gives everyone a breakdown of how concrete homes are built in Florida.
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Berken holds a B.A. degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fl. and a Master’s Degree in Construction Management from Florida International University in Miami, Fl.
He spent ten years as an executive in the New home/community construction from 1992 to 2005. He was instrumental in the building of over 20 master planned communities. This included over 10,000 homes, condos, and townhomes throughout the state of Florida.
Paul Davis has served customers in Broward County since 1985. Berken acquired Paul Davis Restoration in 2006. Berken and his staff are certified from the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) in water, fire, smoke and mold damage restoration. He has more than 20 years of experience in residential and commercial construction as well as remodeling.
Berken has been a resident of south Florida since 1970. His office enjoys customer service rankings in the top 5% of the industry, is a member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) since 1992, and was awarded the “Life Spike” award by the NAHB. Berken is a former member of the National Kitchen and Bath Association, and his pedigree as a seasoned home builder native to South Florida is impressive.
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I have not looked at these comments in a long time. I am so grateful for all the kind words. Thanks a ton!
This is exactly the kind of video I have been looking for. I have been trying to understand the building process for a while. Thank you for being so thorough!
Thank you Nicole!
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@@pauldavisrestorationofbrow117this is definitely the best video hands down. Would love to see more of your content. Maybe provide the following codes that are needed for each inspections. I think I’ll be saving this video as I think through my ADU build. You rock
Thank you so much for your kind words. Would you please leave me a review on my google account. www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&gl=us&q=Paul+Davis+Restoration,+4571+NW+8th+Ave,+Oakland+Park,+FL+33309&ludocid=14414627265389042069&lsig=AB86z5VEvNMGeh3BpZp-UI7RwxOB#lrd=0x88d9033f590e61c3:0xc80b0b203b2c9995,3
Thank you so much! I am delighted you enjoyed it. Really appreciate your comment. I used to be a home builder, now I own a company that does insurance restoration work. I made this to help educate insurance adjusters and property managers.
Are you for hire as an advisor or project manger for new construction in Marion Oaks County Ocala
I have a question if I wanted to buy the materials like Cinder Blocks, Reebar, Drywall, Plumbing, Electrical, Roofing and many other things would that save me alot of money vs going through a contractor
From 2016 but still a valuable source to get a lot of detailed info about building a house in South Florida. That´s really the only video I found with so much steps in detail! Great job! Thank you!
What an amazing video. Thank you so much for putting this all together. It was superb! Must have taken you hours upon hours to put all those slides together. Thank you for creating this!
This was amazing and exactly the type of in-depth info I was looking for. After watching this I had a pretty good education on what goes into building a house in southern Florida. And you got Jack Black to narrate it! :)
i have a channel where i do deep dives into this exact sort of thing. My accent is quite thick but i am sure you will still understand me.th-cam.com/video/UVElSJzGxb4/w-d-xo.html
As someone who's lived in South Florida my whole life, I find it strange when people build houses out of nothing but wood. This video shows how pretty much every house is built in South Florida.
umeng2002 . In the North building with CMUs and achieving a good thermic insulation is beyond reach for a middle class family.
@@anonymousbyproxy8250 you just put some styrofoam on the outside of the cinder block wall, it's not big expense.
We spray foam insulation inside the block wall, of you are going to spend extra money anywhere on your house build spend it on that.
Excellent video Paul, I'm a licensed builder from a Northern state and I am going to build my own home in Florida. This was a killer overview, thank you!
Thank you.Great detailed video,I am a retired plumber living in broward county Florida.
Playback speed 1.5x, your welcome.
genius!
@@victordasilva5255 genius x 1.5!
Even 1.5x is still not enough
thanks. I did 1.75 lol
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This was filmed in Miami, Florida. This is typical of how homes are built in Southern Florida. They are built this way to withstand Hurricane force winds.
Tod, Thank you for the compliment. The foam blocks have great insulating value, but i would be concerned the foam might deteriorate or be easily damaged.
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Gordon Berken for the facia board, do the carpenters who set the trusses cut the truss ends and do the facia?
It is cheaper and less labor intensive.
goodluck
Best home building video I've seen. 👍👍👍👍
I appreciate the pause to ask the question at the 49 min mark. I really needed something that helped put it together like this one did. Thanks a lot.
There was truly a lot of work that went into this video, thank you for the upload. the prevalent detail was great and informative!
Absolutely fantastic! Every detail was covered EXTREMELY well! Lots of effort was put into this! Thank you!
in Europe the plumbing and all utility sleeves are in between the concrete slab, meaning we first pour a simple 3 inches layer of concrete just to prime and level the surface of the slab, then we start then rebars reinforcing phase, then we secure in place over the rebars the plumbing and their outlet on top fixed position on slab, then we pour the concrete on the slab form
Best home building video ever!!
Very informative..very easy to listen to…. A true delight!!! I learned a lot
This is a very informative video for anyone considering building a home in a hurricane prone area. Paul describes the extra building requirements such as impact glass and concrete block walls in a very understandable manner. The long video is appropriate for anyone seriously looking at building options and offers a wealth of knowledge. My wife found it very helpful, and I valued the many technical details.
great presentation
I love this presentation, You did an great job. You were slow and monotoned. Very easy to absorbed the information. WOW!!!!
Thank you for your hard work and dedication! Super informative slide presentation tying it all together. You explain why things are done and in what order. People like you keep us from making mistakes and getting into arguments. Understanding keeps us from getting injured too! You are a cool dude!
Thank you. This is great. Moving to FL and considering building. Very different from where we are and great job man.
I learned a lot to help a sister in Tampa with her new home build. Thank you so much.
So happy you find this helpful.
Wow what a thorough video. The best I've seen so far. Thanks.
This is a very informative presentation. Thank you.
Very well done. Very comprehensive presentation!
You are a treasure. Thank you for sharing
Blushing, haha
Absolutely fantastic presentation. Thank you good sir!
Omg, thank you my friend. Please say something nice on Google for me. My current company is Paul Davis Restoration of Broward and North. Much appreciated. Gordon. Be well.
Thanks for this video !
Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
Thank you very much! This information i was looking for. I'm in closing process to buy a lot. Ready to start my project.
Excellent video, extremely detailed.
Thank you so much for making this video.
AWESOME VIDEO💪❤. Thank you so much ! I was stressed about this and thanks to your expertise I "get it" now. 🙏
Awesome presentation. I am actually having a home built in the Orlando area and this helps explain the process in great detail. I feel well educated on the construction process now. Thank you!!
Great video on the typical construction process for a Florida home. It would be a great marketing tool for any builder in Florida to use for home buyers. Thank you for taking the time in putting this together.
Thanks for you kind reply in regards to my video on how concrete homes are built. Can I trouble you add a google review for Paul Davis Restoration of Broward?
Gordon, thank you for providing so much value with this excellent and very detailed presentation. This is so helpful for us as we start to build our home in the Sarasota County, early next year.
Good luck on your home building adventure. Have fun with it!
I know. Wish I could be a bit more entertaining. But yes, the content is useful. Glad you liked it. Thanks,
Entertainment is highly overrated. Thankfully, you didn't add music.
I just moved to south florida and this helped me understand my home's construction as it is quite different from my prior home in central virginia. thanks for this detailed video; very informative.
Very good. He's right on the money. That's how we build in South Florida
Thank you, good video but I would suggest incorporating material and labor cost into it to gauge the market.
That would be great, but cost change over time.
Our home in Dade County was built a bit differently. Our footers are in the rock and not above ground. Garage floor is 1 block up above the footer and the house floor is two levels above the footer. Every 10 feet in the walls is a poured concrete column with rebar. Window lintels are poured concrete with rebar. Tie beams are poured at the second floor level and at the top with rebar. Our second floor is span deck slabs with poured concrete on them and in them. Floor is 12" thick at the minimum. Roof is wood trusses and is both hip and gable with braces tying it from the ends to the trusses for extra strength. The gable end parts of the roof are PT plywood covered with PT T-111 with tar paper between. And there are extra 2x6s at the joints between the two types of roof. A hatch is in one end for access to the roof and emergency exit if the water should ever get up to the second floor. The house was dead center of Andrew and had less than 50K in damage even though the original wood window covers were ripped out of the walls. After Andrew we had plenty of visitors. US Army Corps of Engineers, Dade County inspectors, FEMA inspectors, Insurance inspectors, as they wondered why our house did so well. Reason being all the extras that the contractor had done to exceed the building code at the time. Our new shutters were commercial high rise shutters ( Accordion type ) on the second floor and storm panels on the first installed before Dade came up with the testing requirement but type tested and approved later. Agree with you on the copper pipe. Our electrical work is either in gutters or conduit with no Romex. All studs in the house are 2x4s and not steel. The house had a transfer switch from the day it was built for a generator which is why when I got home at 1630 on Monday after Andrew, we had lights, water, and refrigeration. And lived on the generator for 5 weeks there after till we got commercial power back. The power pole in front of our house is the same one that was installed when the house was built.
This sounds like a beautifully built home. Your home has what we call a stem wall. It is great for raising the elevation of the home and avoiding flooding. I would feel very safe in your home during a hurricane.
Thank you for this invaluable information Sir!
Most welcome!
Super accurate me and my father run a slab pouring Business in central Florida most accurate video I’ve seen
Very informative video. Thank you for posting it.
Thank u for your kindness to report that
Excellent video, thank you.
Thankyou very much, this building process was very cleary explained in depth and i loved it! I fell like I learnt so much and found it very engaging with the wealth of knowledge and expert touches of insight, invaluable truly..... a big thankyou to you for preparing and sharing. A young fella from Australia.
Thanks for producing this video. If I buy a home, I want one you built.
Thank you for the video
Thanks for the education!
Amazing video. TY for sharing.
I was surprised that you did not have a continuous WAB covering all your walls and roof. Then adding your overhangs after you have a continuous WAB and thermal resistance layer on the outside wall. I would then apply a dimple layer to allow water that penetrates the cladding to move away from the wall It appears that you don’t have a conditioned attic space
All I can say is that you are a great contractor, we need more like you. Be safe god bless.
Many thanks from Bahamas 🇧🇸
Excellent and very informative video.... good pics and images.... currently I'm looking for prefab concrete contractor... I have a piece of land and will like to build a concrete house.... again kudos for sharing very valuable info.... THANK YOU for taking time to bring this project to us.
Gordon, my lovely Latina wife Griselda and my awesome 12 year old son Miguel and I have been planning a move to sunny Tampa Florida from Connecticut for a number of months now. I had three large multi-family houses that I needed to sell before we put the moving van in gear and smoke the tires! We hope to transition this summer so Miguel may start school in the fall. It is so important that we purchase a Florida home that will serve us well for a number of years. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this mega informative slide show presentation! Tons of concrete, tons of utilities and tons of great information on what to look for in new home construction. Thanks very much Gordon! Regards, Dennis Nelson
Wow ! Very informative, even a layman like me can understand it. Super Job !
Thank you.
I love vinyl plank flooring. It has become very popular here in South Florida. I have notice some brands have a shrinkage issue that creates gaps over time.
Yep, vynil all the way, 100% waterproof!
Why do you have to "poison" the ground for termites if you're building with concrete and not wood?
Because here in Florida we have Termites that can also eat thru concrete.
I was not aware about the requirement to have the AC pad at the same elevation as the finish floor. I live in a house with a subfloor and my finish floor is about 3 feet above the grade. My AC pad, however, is only about 4 inches above the grade. My last home had a concrete floor that was about 8-12 inches above the grade and the AC pad was only about 4 inches above the grade. These were both older homes, that were retrofitted with ACs. Not sure if that changes anything.
Thank you so much Paul. Great video
Great video
this was great! thank you for providing this "owners manual" of a guide for new construction in S. FL.
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This is great.
These homes can withstand greater than 120mph winds. The Caribbean has been builing like this for decades. You can get up to Cat 4 hurricane winds and still have your structure. A good hip roof or even a concrete poured roof is key as well. Hurricance straps are a must 👌
Concrete isn't waterproof therefore not great for roofs.
This is an AWESOME AND MOST INFORMATIVE VIDEO
Thank you all for your kind words! I am glad folks are finding it interesting.
I live in Miami, FL and I thought all houses were built like this. My home has been through lots of hurricanes and has never had any issue. It is from the late 1930s.
I just needed to comment and thank you. This is incredible.
So kind of you to say!
Much appreciated sir! Well done...highly valuable!
Glad you like it.
This presentation is amazing.. I was wondering if you have a checklist for building a house in FL?
Do all cinder block homes in florida have concrete poured down? Is that the code or can it be hollow?
Thank you. I was just in Reunion Florida and got to walk around a couple of the houses that are under construction. Pretty cool experience.
You said the wood bucks on the exterior masonry walls to furrout the Gyp. Bd. is 5/8" thick. Is that really all of the insulation thickness for exterior walls?
This video is awesome! As I’m building my home as an owner and no experience at all, it has helped me a lot, thank you. I’m halfway to finishing it.
I've been thinking about this as well.
Excellent detailed sequential explanation of events. Very well done.
I love this video-food for my brain I’m gonna watch it over and over. Thank you Gordon
Yes it does. One of the biggest reasons is that concrete labor for block work, concrete beams and column is hard to come by in markets that typically use wood frame. We tried to use the type of construction in my class in Jacksonville. The cost of the labor was about 3 times as much as it is in central and south Florida.
Hi Gordon. I appreciate very much this excellent and professional crash course (very well detailed) on home building! I enjoyed every second of it. You are a pro! Thank You!
@Paul Davis Restoration of Broward - Why not pour all concrete for the walls, floors and roof?
Thanks for this very in depth video! Much appreciated.
My pleasure.
Fantastic video.. very in depth 👌 thinking of building a custom home and have a builder get me me to drywall and I do all the finishes. It was nice to see the start to finish process and now I have a much better understanding of all that it takes to start a new home.. Thank you very much👍
the freezing and thawing differences between steel and concrete tends to shatter the concrete (over time) in colder climates.
Thanks for making the video
Nice 👍 work I moved to Florida in 1992 right after the hurricane Andrew and work into roofing tile and flat the roof in South Miami Florida and then moved into kitchen and bath Tile & Stone
Thanks for sharing this video
I learn a lot from this video. Thank you so much!
That make me happy.
Wow! Thank you so much for compiling such a fantastic educational video...best thing I have seen on TH-cam. What a contrast to the masonry construction we have here in Ecuador!
Excellent excellent presentation. Thank you for taking time to record. Learned a ton.
Thank you for your comment.
Thank you. Just thank you so much
Great job! Thank you for all the hard work! If you have since redone this adding to it detail, please put a link to that work as well! Again, Thank You!
interesting hearing about the metal studs... i live near orlando and all our houses use 2x4 studs. is metal only a common thing further down south?
Fantastic video. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. It's too bad you don't offer a home builder course here in Florida. I'm sure it would be very popular. I would certainly be interested. May I ask, do you know of any Florida based home builder courses?
We are planning to build our own house in 2023, your videos really educated us. We are wondering if you are interested in helping us to build the house framing.
Thank you. Husband and I watched from start to finish. Question? What different materials would need to be used if this same home was built by the ocean?
Metal studs first gained popularity in South Florida. It has become more common in central Florida over the years. We used metal studs in Orlando, Naples, Fort Myers, and a bit in Tampa. Most of Tampa is still using wood studs. Same with most areas North of Orlando. The pros of wood is that they support wall mounted fixtures better. The pros of steel studs are that you can be more creative, run electrical and plumbing easier, and insects don't like it. I would guess that steel studs are not more popular in other areas of the US due to difficulties finding labor. That was our biggest obstacle.
Very good presentation...certainly gives an understanding of the extent of work to build in Florida..any particular cost per square foot for good middle of the road homeof around 2000 sq ft?
It would not be wise for me to answer this. It would become inaccurate over time. Sorry.
Thank you for the video, I plan to build a new house, and the video is very informative.
They all have poured columns with rebar inside. The code varies by geography, but the cells are filled with rebar and concrete every 4 feet in South Florida. Generally you can be certain that every corner, door opening and window openings have poured columns on each side. We call this "Filled Cells".
Thank you for posting this!
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