We were 50 when we started our ICF home. Began with basement, used our exterior walls as bearing walls for the metal truss’s & metal roof. Been 23yrs & love the quiet, this house has been wonderful.
I was one first trained in building these type of houses. Man has it been a long time. But funny these and the much cheaper concrete walls really don't have any difference except lots savings. Both quite efficient
how wonderful to see a couple work so well together with a common goal. I'll be watching your progress with awe, good luck to you both. I'm following you from Ireland 🇮🇪
I like how you two compliment each other, verbally as well, as you work through different things together, and show each other how much you care for each other in so many ways! These build videos could be an hour long, and I'd sit here and watch it all, but understand this is just a part of your lives right now and you have so many more things going on we never see, that takes up your time. I have a feeling that this channel is going to explode with subscribers one day, since it is that kind of a channel that I believe a lot would like once they find it. Stay safe y'all!
Idk why everyone is hating on your build. ICF is an amazing innovative material and very strong too. I have a concern over the fire resistance of the foam and the toxic chemicals used to process them but overall still a nice home.
I don’t think there is a toxic factor to the insulation and most insulation has to fire safe to pass inspection. However, even if it was? It would be behind sheet rock inside so there still wouldn’t be an issue.
At first glance it looks more complicated than a traditional built home. But as long as you follow the detailed instructions , it actually becomes such an efficient build. Loving this project guys.👍
Looking really great guys!! BTW, I surpassed my record mixing concrete in a mixer. 11 Mixes in one 9hr day. 2 bags quickcrete @88lbs each, 1 bucket lime, 2 small bags anti-crack fibre, and one scoop hosphere. I didn't count the shovels of sand or water used, but it was a lot. 1 mix filled 2 wheel barrows to the brim. 5 plasterers on the wall plus 2 labourers hauling buckets up. I could barely keep up. Got the house done with scratch + finish coat today. Now it has to sit till everything cures and ready for the pre-mix stucco coating and texture. The client will be amazed when we are all cleaned up and done. Cheers, Blessings!
Proper pre planning and design is paramount when it comes to ICF. I appreciate Brandon’s skill and knowledge. I designed my home in the same manner: block size dictated building dimensions and window locations. Exciting for you both, keep on going!
Just curious are you allowed to design homes without architects and structural engineers in your country or you just illegally saving up on that to save few thousand dollars but spending millions without prior knowledge that an licenced professional can provide.
@@aniketsharma3177 I can’t speak for Brandon but myself, I’m a certified Draftsnan and Red Seal Journeyman Carpenter with over 34 years in the housing industry. Having said that tho, in BC (again can’t speak for Ontario cuz I don’t live there) anyone can draw up a house plan and submit it for building permit. It’s at that time that the City Building Officials will ask for a Professionaly Draftsman or Architect design or Engineer’s stamp. Now Commercial Building or Multi Family Developments, those require Architects and Engineers, always. For my ICF Design Build I was required to have an Engineer sign off on the rebar as I live in an earthquake zone.
@@aniketsharma3177 You can make the plans and take them to a certified engineer to stamp them if you are not certified yourself. And dont think just because they are a certified engineer means they know what is best. My cousins have shocked a few engineers with their ideas to solve problems we have come across, one even called my one cousin a genius.
Build smarter not harder. This is why I think all engineers should have been in the trade first so they know the process. Engineers around where I live have become really sloppy lately. We had one build that because the engineer did not get out of their car to check the land, their owner probably paid and extra $20,000 to have a huge 12 ft retaining wall made that was not even needed and now the back yard of the neighbor instead of having a nice sunrise to see, its just a giant concrete wall.
Every time I see folks build their own homes..I get a smile. You appreciate people in the trades so much more and you love and take care of your home much better then the average owner because you know all the aspects of how it was built and how to maintain it. Cant wait to build mine Hopefully next year. Icf foundations are so badass
I believe I am Liking these ICF homes , Nice seeing yourself and Brandon working together on it , you work together well. and what an interesting way to build a home love it.
My husband and I are doing this right now. We are building our foundation/ basement/ garage and then putting wood beams across and setting a modular ontop. A lot of work! Permits and engineering plans are the biggest hurdle.
It is nice to see, that ICF gets popular, resulting in better quality, longer lasing homes. However, I miss some basic things from almost all ICF building videos: - no vapor barrier between footer and wall - using ICF with minimal thermal insulation (external wall of the ICF block has the same thickness as the internal)
ICF is a great product but some different installation techniques. I follow the local building code and Nudura installation method with great results. Have you built with the product yourself?
Great work. It is so exciting. I can't resist commenting on the irony of two timber smart people building with concrete instead of logs. All the best with this inspiring project. John
What incredible work! You two are so awesome! Your home is going to be be so solid, insulated and last forever. Great video! ❤️ Cheryl & Dixie in Georgia 🐕
Such a cool process that I wasn't familiar with, can't wait to see how this all comes together in the end! Love all your videos, here and your other channel!
I've helped stick build 50+ slab-on-grade homes in my healthier days, but never this ICF method. Amazing how fast it can go sometimes, and how slow. Pouring those tall forms ... oh my gosh ... I'd have nightmares ... ha ... cheers!
That rebar bender🫢 brilliant. I’ve been using my shoe and muscles to bend it!!! I love seeing how you’re doing this. It’s so similar to ours but so, so different! I can’t wait to see the next steps! Also loved Brandon adding to the voice overs!!
I'm a concrete pump driver in the UK, I work for camfauds, trust me these jobs may look straight forward but there not easy to pour clean and not spill over the sides, nice work to drive and home owners
We used ICF for a crawl space at one house but the manufacturer said to add rebar according to our bylaws, our inspector said to follow the manufacturer's instructions??? Needless to say there's a lot of rebar in the ICF. Looks good around there, it fun wa6tching it all come together. Keep smilin
Great build of the walls and poring of the concrete.I like how are using your own milled beams. You are two of the hardest skilled workers I watched on youtube. Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing ☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
Friend of mine did an ICF house over on Cory Lake. He had a lot more problems with his pumper truck than you did. Thank you for the video. Stay safe and stay cool
Basement walls, very exciting! Without pumper trucks I can see the ICF home would be a bit more difficult. Are you building your new house in the rainforest? Seems like it's always raining there. Lol
I helped my brother in law build their home using foam blocks very similar to these (had steel mesh internal rather than plastic). Went up in rows of six with tons of rebar and then did concrete fills. We did have one block blow out during concrete fill. Lost a lot of concrete during fill - used a sheet of thick plywood and Mr Massey Ferguson to stop the loss.
Great video. You both are doing a great job. Your videos will be something that you will be able to watch over the years making some great memories. While you have some concrete work you should review the placement of your future hot tub. It was one of those investments that we both said why did we wait so long to put on in. Each night after a hard day of work you can enjoy the hot tub as it soothes those aches and pains that come with building your dream house. Keep up the great job.
Great job. That's a lot of work for two people. Your efficient design certainly cut down on waste and extra time cutting blocks. I just finished a foundation that was not designed well for ICF and there was a huge amount of waste.
Amazing tech for cold countries! Very durable walls with double sided insulation. Simply amazing. I never seen this in Russia(moved here recently from europe). Here they build from blocks and then only external insulation
My ex and I built our home in 2002 with poured concrete walls with Styrofoam forms for the basement just like this. At the time, no one was doing this. It took a day for them to put up the forms and the next days they poured the concrete. It was a fraction of the cost that it would have to use block and a fration of the time. For those saying that you'll be better off with block...sorry, but nope! Our basement was 60 degrees summer or winter and we lived in Michigan.
NO!!! Been waiting for this!!! Way to short!!!! LoL. Know there is alot going on. But man that was way to short. Glad things are moving foward for y'all on the house! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎
its lookin great!!! only been around a couple ICF builds over the years, the rebar cutter & bender will put muscles in places you didnt even know you had!!! LOL be safe
Just finished watching all of your videos and you both are a great team. I wish I could have found someone to connect with in every aspect of life like you two. Awesome project and I wish there were more people like you in the world. Stay safe and keep up the great work. Tony
Well done! ICF has come a LONG way since my wife and I built our house with it 17 years ago. And yes we were a team just like you two. The pride of ownership when you pour your own BS&T into a build is unmatched. Respect.
😀Love your video's, but even more than that it's the teamwork displayed in each and every one. You've achieved much in a short time. Thanks for sharing.
When I built my ICF house. I hung the entire first floor before I poured the concrete to square the walls and easier to fill walls than walking around on the scaffolding.
Wow. This tech is great... Wooden shields for beton is such a big job. But I can't believe that this polysterol shields are not falling while betoning. Ah. Now I see :)) at middle of video. But it's really cool tech, just awesome 👍
So just a few minutes in and have seen a couple things that have led to blowouts in previous pours we have done.. be careful. Just because you did it successfully a dozen times, the 13th time your corner will blow because you didn't put clips on the bottom of the bottom course.
Seems smart. Having soft foam interior walls is a problem though when you need to attach something to the wall which happens very often. You have to cut or drill deep thru the insulation. Relatively minor issue I guess. My basement is like that....parts of it anyway. I guess you could slap a layer of sheet rock over it and call it a day.
Should have chromed your rebar.😉😏😁😂if the earth ever brakes up there's going to be a lot of structures floating through space.so don't forget the hitch post.we can all tie off together to make: the hive.
I will be building an ICF house. I am a little unsure about DIY, because the door and window openings and especially all the other openings, like for AC lines, water pipes, electrical, vents and drains. Alot to remember and figure out.
give yourself lots of time to figure out the penetrations its important to get them right, its saves alot of time and special tools later. if your not sure add extra its easier to cover than to drill.
Two things: 1) you never know when if you have voids into your walls, and that matters in case of an earthquake; 2) in cold climate, the interior side of the polistyrene will keep humidity inside the house, causing trouble. One way to deal with this is to tear it apart after the concrete has been cured.
So since i have built a few ICF homes and lived in some for 20 years, in a very cold climate i can tell you that well frankly your mistaken. Its quite easy to tell if you had a void and not terribly difficult to fix. This house didn't have any. And the humidity problem you referred to just doesn't happen.
This seems a pretty decent system or methodology. Obtaining a house is such an important component part of life, and the cost generally so overwhelming, many die before paying off an under-performing, too-small, inefficient POS. Just my opinion as somebody inhabiting an under-performing, outdated, too-small, inefficient POS! Mine is a UK one-storey construction of dual brick cavity, built in 1972. I just point out what’s not changed first - energy costs. The suez crisis had us printing fuel vouchers over here, and my dad got me some, because the well-known ‘hack’ as we’d call it now for rationing, was your children of,any age could have their own coupon book. Never actually came to be used. And yet, nobody learned the lesson, it took a burgeoning war in Eastern Europe, to bring us to the realisation that our present housing stock is mostly semi-attached garbage in the UK (semi-detached we call it, 2 homes share a middle wall, it’s very common and really makes your quality of life dependent on your neighbour’s noise levels - why??!). Super-insulating, but with adequate ventilation and waterproofing is really a lesson we ought to have learned, and have not in the UK. My walls, don’t have the cavity capped for example. The only thing that oughtta work is the damp proofing membrane about 4 bricks up, but truthfully, it needed to be maybe 6 bricks up with the floor appropriate inside to that. The insulative value of external brick/cavity/internal block/plaster, is absolutely pathetic. ‘R’ value I believe is a rating used to measure this in particular materials. I have implemented many benefits to the property, but the main one is to create a loft room that is easily cooled by opening some windows we fitted, even jn a hot summer, and this protects the house because I added a layer if foiled bubble-wrap between the roof proper and the room built inside. But those walls of double brick, are really outdated by the price of heating gas and electricity for the UK. And no home can probably avoid needing to generate its own power now, because our fuel and energy costs make EVs prohibitive for all but the most affluent to drive. I’d say, the UK is an absolute mess. Our govt has lost all grasp of what central government is actually for, it’s the weirdest thing. It’s not there to tax us to death, it’s there to furnish us with infrastructure to live. I will get a grip on what to do next, now I am retired, but my recollection of a home insulation drive running since the 1970’s leaves me baffled why this effort has singularly failed to be completed. I bought three houses. Every single one, had lousy or missing insulation/damp-proofing, and heating that Canadians would laugh at - in fact, a visiting Canadian did exactly that, and asked why we don’t have it on at night…because it would bump the home energy cost from an already staggering £4,500 to nearer £7,500 is the answer of course! Great vid, take care.
We were 50 when we started our ICF home. Began with basement, used our exterior walls as bearing walls for the metal truss’s & metal roof. Been 23yrs & love the quiet, this house has been wonderful.
I was one first trained in building these type of houses. Man has it been a long time. But funny these and the much cheaper concrete walls really don't have any difference except lots savings. Both quite efficient
how wonderful to see a couple work so well together with a common goal. I'll be watching your progress with awe, good luck to you both. I'm following you from Ireland 🇮🇪
Wish I had that synergy at home instead of that noise that comes in one ear and goes out the other.
I like how you two compliment each other, verbally as well, as you work through different things together, and show each other how much you care for each other in so many ways! These build videos could be an hour long, and I'd sit here and watch it all, but understand this is just a part of your lives right now and you have so many more things going on we never see, that takes up your time. I have a feeling that this channel is going to explode with subscribers one day, since it is that kind of a channel that I believe a lot would like once they find it. Stay safe y'all!
Idk why everyone is hating on your build. ICF is an amazing innovative material and very strong too. I have a concern over the fire resistance of the foam and the toxic chemicals used to process them but overall still a nice home.
I don’t think there is a toxic factor to the insulation and most insulation has to fire safe to pass inspection. However, even if it was? It would be behind sheet rock inside so there still wouldn’t be an issue.
At first glance it looks more complicated than a traditional built home. But as long as you follow the detailed instructions , it actually becomes such an efficient build. Loving this project guys.👍
Looking really great guys!! BTW, I surpassed my record mixing concrete in a mixer. 11 Mixes in one 9hr day. 2 bags quickcrete @88lbs each, 1 bucket lime, 2 small bags anti-crack fibre, and one scoop hosphere. I didn't count the shovels of sand or water used, but it was a lot. 1 mix filled 2 wheel barrows to the brim. 5 plasterers on the wall plus 2 labourers hauling buckets up. I could barely keep up. Got the house done with scratch + finish coat today. Now it has to sit till everything cures and ready for the pre-mix stucco coating and texture. The client will be amazed when we are all cleaned up and done. Cheers, Blessings!
Proper pre planning and design is paramount when it comes to ICF. I appreciate Brandon’s skill and knowledge. I designed my home in the same manner: block size dictated building dimensions and window locations.
Exciting for you both, keep on going!
Couldn't agree more! thanks so much
Just curious are you allowed to design homes without architects and structural engineers in your country or you just illegally saving up on that to save few thousand dollars but spending millions without prior knowledge that an licenced professional can provide.
@@aniketsharma3177 I can’t speak for Brandon but myself, I’m a certified Draftsnan and Red Seal Journeyman Carpenter with over 34 years in the housing industry. Having said that tho, in BC (again can’t speak for Ontario cuz I don’t live there) anyone can draw up a house plan and submit it for building permit. It’s at that time that the City Building Officials will ask for a Professionaly Draftsman or Architect design or Engineer’s stamp.
Now Commercial Building or Multi Family Developments, those require Architects and Engineers, always.
For my ICF Design Build I was required to have an Engineer sign off on the rebar as I live in an earthquake zone.
@@aniketsharma3177 You can make the plans and take them to a certified engineer to stamp them if you are not certified yourself. And dont think just because they are a certified engineer means they know what is best. My cousins have shocked a few engineers with their ideas to solve problems we have come across, one even called my one cousin a genius.
Build smarter not harder. This is why I think all engineers should have been in the trade first so they know the process. Engineers around where I live have become really sloppy lately. We had one build that because the engineer did not get out of their car to check the land, their owner probably paid and extra $20,000 to have a huge 12 ft retaining wall made that was not even needed and now the back yard of the neighbor instead of having a nice sunrise to see, its just a giant concrete wall.
Every time I see folks build their own homes..I get a smile. You appreciate people in the trades so much more and you love and take care of your home much better then the average owner because you know all the aspects of how it was built and how to maintain it. Cant wait to build mine Hopefully next year. Icf foundations are so badass
The ICF is amazing. I especially like the floor joist holders.
I believe I am Liking these ICF homes , Nice seeing yourself and Brandon working together on it , you work together well. and what an interesting way to build a home love it.
My husband and I are doing this right now. We are building our foundation/ basement/ garage and then putting wood beams across and setting a modular ontop. A lot of work! Permits and engineering plans are the biggest hurdle.
My external walls on the bottom part of my house are about 3 feet thick limestone. Very efficient for heat and cooling....
You guys are killing it you should be proud. But just remember behind every amazing man there's an even more amazing woman
But not take the second argument to be granted ;)
It is nice to see, that ICF gets popular, resulting in better quality, longer lasing homes.
However, I miss some basic things from almost all ICF building videos:
- no vapor barrier between footer and wall
- using ICF with minimal thermal insulation (external wall of the ICF block has the same thickness as the internal)
ICF is a great product but some different installation techniques. I follow the local building code and Nudura installation method with great results. Have you built with the product yourself?
I love seeing the great progress you are making. I look forward to the day you move in. Great job!
This is soo cool. I can’t wait to see the next episode. Thanks for filming it. I love your videos.
Great seeing a couple buildings their own House !! Awesome Work !!! ❤
Great work. It is so exciting. I can't resist commenting on the irony of two timber smart people building with concrete instead of logs. All the best with this inspiring project. John
What incredible work! You two are so awesome! Your home is going to be be so solid, insulated and last forever. Great video! ❤️ Cheryl & Dixie in Georgia 🐕
It's a pleasure watching you two work together.
Such a cool process that I wasn't familiar with, can't wait to see how this all comes together in the end! Love all your videos, here and your other channel!
Incredible congratulations 👊🏾👊🏾brings back so memories of my dad built our house and pouring cement Awesome 👍👍
I've helped stick build 50+ slab-on-grade homes in my healthier days, but never this ICF method.
Amazing how fast it can go sometimes, and how slow.
Pouring those tall forms ... oh my gosh ... I'd have nightmares ... ha ... cheers!
I used a metal guide on the bottom to keep the walls straight and tied in.
That rebar bender🫢 brilliant. I’ve been using my shoe and muscles to bend it!!! I love seeing how you’re doing this. It’s so similar to ours but so, so different! I can’t wait to see the next steps! Also loved Brandon adding to the voice overs!!
Man that’s exciting! Walls are being poured!😃🙌
I'm a concrete pump driver in the UK, I work for camfauds, trust me these jobs may look straight forward but there not easy to pour clean and not spill over the sides, nice work to drive and home owners
I absolutely love this!
That ICF system is super slick!
Cool! I am in awe of what you do are doing. It is just amazing. Great job!
I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks for sharing. I'm excited to see how this turns out.
Awesome. Thank you for allowing us to follow your progress.
Looks great ! I’m happy for you guys .
Awesome looking forward to watching
You build your home. Great video
Looks great so far
I can watch this kind of build for hours. Awesome progress guys and looking forward to the next video.
Another great video! Can’t wait to see it completed!
We used ICF for a crawl space at one house but the manufacturer said to add rebar according to our bylaws, our inspector said to follow the manufacturer's instructions??? Needless to say there's a lot of rebar in the ICF. Looks good around there, it fun wa6tching it all come together. Keep smilin
I built one on a slab with fox blocks 5 years ago. You won't be disappointed. Pretty efficient in the michigan weather
Great build of the walls and poring of the concrete.I like how are using your own milled beams. You are two of the hardest skilled workers I watched on youtube. Keep up the great work. Thanks for sharing ☺️☺️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
"Stay tuned" not a problem!
Truly impressive...moving forward ALL homes should be built this way...cheers!
Friend of mine did an ICF house over on Cory Lake. He had a lot more problems with his pumper truck than you did.
Thank you for the video. Stay safe and stay cool
Amazing DYI. Please make a final video with learned lessons, what you would do differently.
How fun to watch the house go up.
Can't wait to see more in this series! Thank you for sharing the build
Basement walls, very exciting! Without pumper trucks I can see the ICF home would be a bit more difficult. Are you building your new house in the rainforest? Seems like it's always raining there. Lol
This is what a couple looks like.
Great video guys .
I love hard work... I could watch it ALL day... 😅🤣😂
I helped my brother in law build their home using foam blocks very similar to these (had steel mesh internal rather than plastic). Went up in rows of six with tons of rebar and then did concrete fills. We did have one block blow out during concrete fill. Lost a lot of concrete during fill - used a sheet of thick plywood and Mr Massey Ferguson to stop the loss.
Looking good. Can’t wait to see the next videos.
Great video. You both are doing a great job. Your videos will be something that you will be able to watch over the years making some great memories. While you have some concrete work you should review the placement of your future hot tub. It was one of those investments that we both said why did we wait so long to put on in. Each night after a hard day of work you can enjoy the hot tub as it soothes those aches and pains that come with building your dream house. Keep up the great job.
Great job. That's a lot of work for two people. Your efficient design certainly cut down on waste and extra time cutting blocks. I just finished a foundation that was not designed well for ICF and there was a huge amount of waste.
Great video! Looks like a great start to your new home.
Amazing tech for cold countries! Very durable walls with double sided insulation. Simply amazing. I never seen this in Russia(moved here recently from europe). Here they build from blocks and then only external insulation
Same in Latvia. External thick insulation added AFTER block construction.
Great progress on this project.
The joyst tabs are super convinient
Great video. Wish they were longer. Thanks again for sharing 👊.
my wife and i are currently preparing to do our own icf foundation. thanks for making this video
Looking great! Excited to follow your journey to building your new home. ❤️
Great video guys looks like a lot of work ,but she looks very strong. learning a new way of building a house
Thanks for following along Kevin!
Hello @TimberMates;
Awesome foundation. Enjoy your spetacular show and thank you for sharing.
My ex and I built our home in 2002 with poured concrete walls with Styrofoam forms for the basement just like this. At the time, no one was doing this. It took a day for them to put up the forms and the next days they poured the concrete. It was a fraction of the cost that it would have to use block and a fration of the time. For those saying that you'll be better off with block...sorry, but nope! Our basement was 60 degrees summer or winter and we lived in Michigan.
I would like the system with a steel structure around it. Withstand winds up to 150 mph in Florida, and Good anchors.
I hope to build a home with these some day
My reservation built a bunch of these for residents. From what I understand is if not dome right can lead to mold.
HRV :)
NO!!! Been waiting for this!!! Way to short!!!! LoL. Know there is alot going on. But man that was way to short. Glad things are moving foward for y'all on the house! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎
its lookin great!!! only been around a couple ICF builds over the years, the rebar cutter & bender will put muscles in places you didnt even know you had!!! LOL be safe
Nudura is an excellent choice. We built our house using Nudura seven years ago and have zero regrets. ICF should be much more popular here in the US
i agree, its a great product that outperforms the standard construction method in so many ways.
This is amazing work. I've never seen the ICF used before and you guys make it look easy. Great job!
Just finished watching all of your videos and you both are a great team. I wish I could have found someone to connect with in every aspect of life like you two. Awesome project and I wish there were more people like you in the world. Stay safe and keep up the great work. Tony
Weeks of work and truck of wood economy. Just great :))
This is so interesting to watch. I've never seen this used to pour the cement. I'm so happy that y'all are building your own home.
Fantastic video thanks for sharing this, looking forward to more of these.
You are both amazing
They should be building these in the midwest to brace against the tornados
Big thumbs up 👍 for your new home
Well done! ICF has come a LONG way since my wife and I built our house with it 17 years ago. And yes we were a team just like you two. The pride of ownership when you pour your own BS&T into a build is unmatched. Respect.
Amazing! Thanks so much for the beautiful comment!
Sou di Brazil 🇧🇷 e faço Construção em ICF muito top o vídeo de vocês, posta mais como e feito o revestimento externo?
😀Love your video's, but even more than that it's the teamwork displayed in each and every one. You've achieved much in a short time. Thanks for sharing.
Do you have plans of your your ICF house that you're willing to share. Would be interesting to see the overall exterior view of the plans.
we built one ourselves here in the uk ... a little learning curve but pretty fun to do once you get going ...
When I built my ICF house. I hung the entire first floor before I poured the concrete to square the walls and easier to fill walls than walking around on the scaffolding.
good idea ive never tried it myself
@arminkowitz2726, is there any risk to doing it this way? Floor trusses before pouring. Does it reduce amount of needed bracing?
@@vitalyy2589 I mounted my floors like this vid. I screwed the ridge beam to the ICF and braced it with wood to the foundation.
Great clean work!
Wow. This tech is great... Wooden shields for beton is such a big job. But I can't believe that this polysterol shields are not falling while betoning.
Ah. Now I see :)) at middle of video. But it's really cool tech, just awesome 👍
So just a few minutes in and have seen a couple things that have led to blowouts in previous pours we have done.. be careful. Just because you did it successfully a dozen times, the 13th time your corner will blow because you didn't put clips on the bottom of the bottom course.
Love the white shirt for concrete pour day!
Seems smart. Having soft foam interior walls is a problem though when you need to attach something to the wall which happens very often. You have to cut or drill deep thru the insulation. Relatively minor issue I guess. My basement is like that....parts of it anyway. I guess you could slap a layer of sheet rock over it and call it a day.
This system has been around in canada for over 30 years. Built quite a few back then. Really slick but pricey
well worth it for our unpredictable Canadian Climate
какие ви крутые! Вдохновляете!!!👏👏👏
Enjoyed your video will be waiting for the next. 👍👍
I liked the part with the keyway the very best.
Should have chromed your rebar.😉😏😁😂if the earth ever brakes up there's going to be a lot of structures floating through space.so don't forget the hitch post.we can all tie off together to make: the hive.
Very cool, just a little disappointed, you guys didn't have lunch.,..
I was thinking BLTs lol
Fjallraven pants! Is this the bushcraft lady.
Glad I found your channel. Just subscribed as I'm interested in doing an ICF build as well. 👍
Thanks for subbing
Great video and looking good. Take care and have a blessed weekend and I'll see you on your next video
I will be building an ICF house. I am a little unsure about DIY, because the door and window openings and especially all the other openings, like for AC lines, water pipes, electrical, vents and drains. Alot to remember and figure out.
give yourself lots of time to figure out the penetrations its important to get them right, its saves alot of time and special tools later. if your not sure add extra its easier to cover than to drill.
awesome mates...and very great videos......keep up the good work......it will be so worth it....peace and blessings from NC
Worked on a house like that.. was a hell..
Two things: 1) you never know when if you have voids into your walls, and that matters in case of an earthquake; 2) in cold climate, the interior side of the polistyrene will keep humidity inside the house, causing trouble. One way to deal with this is to tear it apart after the concrete has been cured.
So since i have built a few ICF homes and lived in some for 20 years, in a very cold climate i can tell you that well frankly your mistaken. Its quite easy to tell if you had a void and not terribly difficult to fix. This house didn't have any. And the humidity problem you referred to just doesn't happen.
@@TimberMates I don't mean to be an ass, but how can you tell there is no void in the walls ?
Currently in the process of building an ICF foundation for my home. Nudura is such a great product
i love how easy is it and how well it handles the pour
This seems a pretty decent system or methodology. Obtaining a house is such an important component part of life, and the cost generally so overwhelming, many die before paying off an under-performing, too-small, inefficient POS. Just my opinion as somebody inhabiting an under-performing, outdated, too-small, inefficient POS! Mine is a UK one-storey construction of dual brick cavity, built in 1972. I just point out what’s not changed first - energy costs. The suez crisis had us printing fuel vouchers over here, and my dad got me some, because the well-known ‘hack’ as we’d call it now for rationing, was your children of,any age could have their own coupon book. Never actually came to be used. And yet, nobody learned the lesson, it took a burgeoning war in Eastern Europe, to bring us to the realisation that our present housing stock is mostly semi-attached garbage in the UK (semi-detached we call it, 2 homes share a middle wall, it’s very common and really makes your quality of life dependent on your neighbour’s noise levels - why??!).
Super-insulating, but with adequate ventilation and waterproofing is really a lesson we ought to have learned, and have not in the UK. My walls, don’t have the cavity capped for example. The only thing that oughtta work is the damp proofing membrane about 4 bricks up, but truthfully, it needed to be maybe 6 bricks up with the floor appropriate inside to that. The insulative value of external brick/cavity/internal block/plaster, is absolutely pathetic. ‘R’ value I believe is a rating used to measure this in particular materials. I have implemented many benefits to the property, but the main one is to create a loft room that is easily cooled by opening some windows we fitted, even jn a hot summer, and this protects the house because I added a layer if foiled bubble-wrap between the roof proper and the room built inside.
But those walls of double brick, are really outdated by the price of heating gas and electricity for the UK. And no home can probably avoid needing to generate its own power now, because our fuel and energy costs make EVs prohibitive for all but the most affluent to drive. I’d say, the UK is an absolute mess. Our govt has lost all grasp of what central government is actually for, it’s the weirdest thing. It’s not there to tax us to death, it’s there to furnish us with infrastructure to live. I will get a grip on what to do next, now I am retired, but my recollection of a home insulation drive running since the 1970’s leaves me baffled why this effort has singularly failed to be completed. I bought three houses. Every single one, had lousy or missing insulation/damp-proofing, and heating that Canadians would laugh at - in fact, a visiting Canadian did exactly that, and asked why we don’t have it on at night…because it would bump the home energy cost from an already staggering £4,500 to nearer £7,500 is the answer of course! Great vid, take care.