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Building with CMU?

11 years ago

Hello all, I am 17 turning 18 and planning to build my own house. My dad will be helping and I have just been exploring options. One of the options I was exploring is using CMU (cinder block to be exact). But I had a few questions about it. First when put up is it water proof? Or will there be moisture problems. Also how do you connect trusses into the cement block? Last question when using wood trusses should you use post frame or residential? I thought that maybe you would use cement glue and glue a header to the cement then connect your trusses into that, However I wasn't sure. My first plan was to just stick build and I explored options in that then thought with how energy efficient brick I would explore that area. Thank you all! :)

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