outside stone facade over foam over block structure
zbuilder801
| Posted in Energy, Heating & Insulation on
First time posting. Please forgive me if this post is in the wrong topic. It was either here or Contruction Techniqes.
I am not a builder.
I would like a lot of stone inside the home for heat soaking. I also would like radiant floor heat. I also want the outside facade to be stone. Is it possible to build a block (cinder block) structure, put the foam board outside, then put the stone facade over the foam? How much foam would be needed for good insulation & to prevent condensation on the block?
Home would be built in Greenvilel/Spartanburg, SC
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First source of info to bone up on:
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=home_sealing.hm_improvement_insulation_table
Taking their recomendations into account, go to:
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/
and
http://www.buildingscience.com/index_html