[RKDinOKC]

Looked at a home that was for sale that was built by the seller. The exterior walls were built with 2x6 instead of 2x4. The entire attic was decked with 1/2in plywood. The house was on a corner of a highly trafficked 4 lane street. You could not hear the traffic at all unless you opened a door. He had built in a gun safe with hidden door in the back wall of a closet. The wall slid open to reveal the large gun safe. He said there was another safe in the house he would reveal if I bought the house.

Besides the attached 2 car garage at one end of the house there was an unattached garage built the same way. It was tall enough it had a lift and would fit an RV. Was wide with two tall doors. You could basically drive a golf cart around the RV and 2 cars and had workbench and cabinets across the end. It had a drain on the side with the lift. It was a car guy's dream garage.

Would be living there except for being on that corner with the major 4 lane street. Told him he needs to take if off the market and list it in the spring or early summer when you don't see all the road grime in the front yard from the 4 lane street.

Also watched another home being built that the exterior walls were styrofoam forms and filled with rebar and concrete. The forms were designed with tabs to attach masonry on the outside and framing on the inside. So the house had rock veneer, the layer of foam, 4 nches of concrete the layer of foam and then regular framing. Had a large closet that had 12in thick concrete walls that was to be their hidey hole. The exterior walls of poured concrete with the styro forms was pretty interesting.