gigahound
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Joined: August 9, 2015 2:31 pm
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Re: Building a new home

Matt, Sounds like they do read this forum. 🙂

6 years ago
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Re: Building a new home

Matt, did you contact GigaCrete Caribbean before or after you built a poured concrete house?

6 years ago
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Re: Building a new home

Matt T, Presuming for the moment that GigaCrete Caribbean may read this board, did the company contact you and address your issue?

6 years ago
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Re: Building a new home

Hi gardeningbug: Would highly recommend you talk with the DeVanes who built a marvelous GigaCrete hurricane-proof house on Great Exuma Island (Ba...

6 years ago
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Re: Building a new home

andee: Check out the GigaCrete building system. The immensely strong and durable houses are simple to build on a prepared slab using low-skill labor a...

6 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Business Insider magazine article cited above did quote a price on the small 576sf GigaHouse kit (circa US$24,000). Of course, that's a stateside pri...

6 years ago
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Re: Inquiry

Do you have any experience in construction? Handy with tools? GigaCrete Caribbean on St.Thomas has put out a call for workers. Interest in GigaCrete's...

6 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

FYI Check out GigaCrete Caribbean Facebook for some interesting news from Phillip Smith pertaining to jobs. Good luck!

6 years ago
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Re: WOW read Jane Higgins' account of Hurricane Irma on STT!!!

Thanks. Her accounts read like prose poems. Lays on the information with style. Are there any hard numbers for wind speeds (max sustained / max gusts...

7 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

From today's Business Insider. Pictured is the GigaCrete Caribbean sales office / demo near STT USVI Humane Society -- as the structure looked before ...

7 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Jumbie Good question. (tu) The Force 10 and GigaCrete building systems are different animals in respect to materials, methods and complexit...

7 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

For the skinny, call Project Manager Phil Smith 1-340-690-3316. Only to add there's value added by energy efficiency; low maintenance; resistance...

7 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

In hopes of a stronger and more resilient USVI to rise from the current calamity. After all, the human spirit is indomitable. Following Hurricane...

7 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

A bit of history being made as work on USVI's first GigaHouse, not understatedly a revolution in housing, nears the finish line. The exterior is done ...

8 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Oh, another guinea pig now using the GC quick-build system. lol This time it's Fortune 500 Davita Healthcare, $12 billion annual revenue and 58,000 em...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Keep in mind that materials for the Exuma GigaHouse were shipped to the Bahamas which, unlike USVI, is not US soil. There are Bahamian duties and taxe...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Why not visit the GigaHouse for yourself before passing judgment? It's at the intersection of the Humane Society Road and Market Square East in St. T...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

A million dollar house it ain't. This is the GigaHouse on Great Exuma Isle, Bahamas. The owners rent it to vacationers at a cost of $400-450 per n...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

Moving on up. None other than Forbes magazine ran a big piece on GigaCrete today. Forbes is the most widely read business magazine in the world beatin...

9 years ago
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Re: Bahamas getting pounded by Huricane Joaquin

Alana, You'll never guess which house and garage in the Grand Exuma Bahamas got pounded by ferocious winds for 2.5 days, along with torrential ra...

9 years ago
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Re: Fresh roasted coffee beans

I like coffee that tastes like coffee and only coffee--not some artificially flavored coffee brew. If you buy a DYI small grinder, you avoid the risk ...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

"Concrete pads or slab foundations are preferred for fastest installations" reads the parent company website. In another place, it states, "Roof ...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

A photograph album on Facebook features a sequence of ca. 30 full size pictures showng, step by step, the assembly and finishing (with high psi non-Po...

9 years ago
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Re: Gigacrete

These are pictures of the first GigaCrete GigaHouse erected in USVI by GC subsidiary GigaCrete Caribbean LLC, St. Thomas. Opportunities for local job...

9 years ago
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