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Looking into switching from stick built to ICFs in my spec builds. Overall ICFs seem to provide a quicker building timeframe while also reducing the complexity of stick builds. Never seen these simpson ledger hardware. Just looked them up and they are stout. Excellent connection to the ICF.

Lovely home… amazing craftsmanship. 😊

Concrete homes are generally cooler than stick-built homes in the summer: Thermal mass Concrete has high thermal mass, which means it absorbs, stores, and releases heat slowly. This helps regulate the temperature of a building, keeping it cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Insulation Concrete is a good insulator, which helps prevent heat loss or gain through the walls of your home. Air leakage Concrete limits air leakage, which is the most significant percentage of energy loss in a home. Energy savings Concrete homes can save homeowners 20 to 25 percent on annual heating and cooling costs compared to standard stick-built homes. Other benefits of concrete homes include: Fire protection: Concrete buildings have a fire-protection rating of up to four hours. Sound barrier: Concrete walls are highly effective as sound barriers. Healthier indoor environment: Concrete is not an appealing food source for termites, rodents, or ants. Lower maintenance: Concrete houses require less maintenance and repair than wood-frame houses.

If you wanted a few board formed concrete walls, how practical/difficult is it to couple traditional ICF block with something like Nudura One Series (single sided panels)?

I'd like to see how that room is filled in, especially with the asymmetrical cabinets. I could see a bar except it doesn't look like enough room for it to the window trim. I'm curious!!

Why would they send excess power back to the grid instead of adding a whole home battery system that can keep the house running at night?

My home is 65 years old and made out of concrete and is still standing. Europe has very very sturdy homes.

Is there a possibility that a large and heavy window will sag at the bottom compressing the styrofoam buck ?

Or get a solar wall that actually have batteries

Can you show how you guys do the drywall returns on windows? How do you secure the drywall to the vertical and horizontal surfaces around the windows. Building my house as owner builder and need some tips thanks

The coupling of the concrete to the almost constant ground temperature is often overlooked and ICF detractors will just focus on it "only being R22". A 65F thermal mass core can help you cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Does your company provide ICF services to owner builders?

Whar are the holes in the steel beam for? Hopefully not for ductwork since there is so much room up there because of the trusses.Did they just come that way and you just dont need then?

That's seems like a lot more ledger brackets than I've seen on other videos. Was that what the engineer called out? Thanks for the ICF videos.

It never rots but i wanna see what the cost of the insurance policy is

Would you rather have a stick framed wood house that is built well, because weveryone on the job has done it a million times and intimately knows exactly what they are doing and how to avoid problerms or... An ICF house where the contractors and builders are learning as they go, and dont have any (or have minimal) experience withe this construction technique?

Thanks for your channel. Lot's of excellent information. On the "Up to Kode" ICF RUclips channel, Kode wraps his ICF houses in Tyvec, an abomination in my opinion, 😂 , but I have never even touched an ICF block, so my opinion is a dime a dozen. He claims that water has entered the seams in the blocks above and has found its way into the window frames, I assume before he started using the Tyvec. What is your take on this? I hope to DIY an ICF retirement home in a couple of years in NC. I'm thinking of "rubber-walling" the whole thing as some people have done. I'm also thinking of recessing flanged casement windows. Given that I rubberized the entire wall and recessed the fiberglass windows, It seems unnecessary to leave the bottom flange un-sealed. I like the idea of having a sealed gasket all around the frame. The window frames themselves have weep holes for any water that enters between the frame and the sash. Leaving the bottom flange unsealed means you need to do a good job of air sealing from the interior side of the window, which seems tricky with the tight space and screws and shims. I guess it's just fill it up with foam, but not too much or water may not be able to find a way to the weep flange. Have you done blower door testing and if so, was there air leakage through the unsealed flange? BTW, in one of your videos about "Why ICF", you highlight homes that survived disasters. I am from that town in Mississippi, Pass Christian, where the ICF house survived. That house is in an area of town that floods quite a bit, thus it was built on piers. I may decide to move back there, my childhood home, but on higher ground. The Katrina surge was 30ft. That ICF house saw all of it whereas our house saw 8ft. That is why I want to use casements and seal all flanges like a gasket. Seal the house almost as tight as a boat. You may say that is fruitless, but during Katrina, the water inside was less than ankle deep while the water outside was eye level. Unfortunately, the floor broke and water gushed in like a geyser. That is where I'm coming from.

nice work, deserve a pat on the back for a job well done.

Do you modify the stick built plans to ICF?

Lovely.

the air does not 'MIX'-it exchanges energy (heat and possibly moisture via vapor permiable membrane in the Hx core).

Love the videos- why not make ICF internal walls as well as external?

Parabens..showwww

Onde é essa obra ,qual país de origem? Z

Parabéns...showwww

You do the same with engineered lumber

How do you find the studs after painting to hang stuff?

How is humidity managed in the initial stages of building right after the walls are poured? What are the typical blower door numbers you are getting at your various stages of building?

I would like to see videos on “how” you do your concrete porches and see you compare costs of the different aspects, like the shoring, and the ICF decking, versus metal floor panels and so on. Thanks for keeping the videos coming.

10,000kw would be 10MW.

I used to think solar panels were cool until I ran the numbers and considered what it takes to produce them and that they cannot be recycled. What is the cost of those panels compared to the cost of grid power? If it is an ICF home, chances are the panels will never pay for themselves. They would’ve probably been better off to invest in a gas or diesel powered generator and maybe a whole-house battery backup instead of solar panels. Nothing green, clean, or sustainable about solar panels. They only last 10-15 years, 20 if you push it, and they end up non-degradable hazardous waste in a landfill. Batteries are not much better but, at least, some are recyclable.

What we like to is add thousands to your build....

All the leaves go down the downspout collecting your 6-inch pipe and plug it

What was the cost per square foot for the metal decking and metal joists?

How do you keep the critters out of the 6” drain, when you dead end it?

Thanks for sending all your roof runoff into the neighbors yard!

More money

Sale man

Do you guys respond to your website inquiries? I've been trying to speak with someone for months.

Can these homes be sheathed in stone? How would that work?

This is the house US needs, not the Wood stick house that cracks easily and needs heavy maintenance

Excellent content!

Wow. That is very impressive

It’s because it’s to expensive for the Average person

The main reason we build out of wood is because that’s what everyone is used to and anyone that has been around long knows that people in construction don’t like change. And the fact that there is such a shortage of people with actual skill makes it worse. Screw ups are easier to fix with wood, a bit tougher in concrete.

Might be fun to intern for an ICF builder. They hiring?

Precast concrete , I think will be the future of housing not ICF

Home sweet fossil fuel microplastic leeching home 🏡

I built my house 42 years ago - it is concrete. It is also earth sheltered and uses less than half the energy of similar sized houses. It is maintenance free and storm proof as well.