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Originally posted by snowman
Anyone know when the earliest poured concrete was used in homes???
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Late 1800's. The first concrete houses were designed and built by Edison. It was his idea for cheap affordabe housing for the masses. Even the cabinets were poured concrete.
Concrete was pretty rare as a building material until the turn of the last century. Edison had the first reinforced concrete buildings made in Schenectady, NY. At least 2 of them are still in use today. The thrid one was knocked down 10 years ago, over an entire summer. The design was "overbuilt" by using 100 as the safety factor.
The only problem we had while we occupied Building 40, was that the concrete was beginning to break off and rain down on our false ceiling. Occasionally, the piece would be big enough to crash through the false ceiling...