No worries! Most people haven't heard of them yet! SIPS panels are basically a couple of sheets of timber board, with a core of polystyrene. They come in panels, or can be pre-cut to size to fit the job. As far as builders go, I don't personally know of any that use concrete panels for residential jobs - mainly because they're not really cost effective until you get to larger commercial sized jobs (as far as I know). Another good way to achieve the industrial look is by using polished plaster render. That gives the look of concrete at a fraction of the cost and can be done in a variety of finishes to suit your taste. It all depends if you want the whole house to have the concrete look or just as features in places that count - all comes down to your design.

I have PGH brown quarry tiles throughout the kitchen, living, dining and areas of my 1980's house. I want to replace them. Can tiles or timber or bamboo floors be laid over existing tiles? I would really like to go with polished concrete, but is it worth the cost, and effort, of removing the tiles ..... and would what's underneath be satisfactory to "polish" ??? How costly is this? It's a big area.

Maybe paint facials white and put some white cladding in front gable so eye drawn to that not windows not a blue tinged white eg not dulux lexicon but warm white to go with cream blinds eg natural or polar white or grand piano 1/4 strength would also go nicely with woodland Grey and jasper - cb basalt also goes nice with woodland Grey maybe go 1/2 strength on walls as it’s a nice neutral black/Greywhixh would detract from purple tinge

We only get about an hour or summer morning sun then the rest is shaded all day even during the heat of the day so I'm hoping that doesn't make it to hot underneath as I want to keep as much light in for winter as we live in Victoria (it's dark most of the day!!)