Great Stuff Pond and Stone is the best thing we have found for sealing holes in basement walls. My Dad has been a well repair guy for 30 + years and he hasn't had a leak since he started using it. We actually took a dry chunk of the Pond and Stone and tied it to a rock and sunk it in a pail of water for months. When we pulled it out it beaded the water right off and was completely dry.
We are building an ICF house and our builder made a smart suggestion for the sewer penetration in the wall. Instead of placing conduit in the wall, he inserted a solid piece (10"x16") of EPS inside the wall to prevent concrete from filling the space. The benefit is that this allows the plumber to fine tune the location based on the required slope and simply use a hole saw to cut through the EPS blank.
Hi there and Thank you for all of your video!) How do you protect electric and plumbing from accident nails etc?! Very important topic but no one talks about it.
Hey Garrett what your looking for is linkseal & GPT your cutting a square hole or round your choice about three inches around the pipe allowing concrete to flow around place 3/4 plywood on both sides of the icf watch the video and you'll get the idea good luck
This might be a bit late but you need to be careful with code requirements for wall penetrations. Sewer and Water sleeves sometimes must come out of the wall as a single piece a certain distance, in my area this is 5', so putting a coupling at the outside of the ICF may not pass inspection. Always check with your local building inspector or your city water and sewer department. Mine has a downloadable document that describes the requirements well. Other thing to remember with electrical conduit penetrations, you cannot bury an Ell so make sure you locate the pipe low enough on the wall to make any upward turns you might need, especially if your service entrance is a meter on the side of the house that then comes down through the basement wall.
Just two cents from a plumber about that sump discharge, I would move that check valve up as high as you can on the pipe. You don’t typically want a large column of water constantly pushing down on that valve.
@@timm439 A plumber would suggest a DIY person to put the check valve up as high as possible, that way the water drops back down, triggers your pump again, then it goes bad by short cycling and you realize you need to call a plumber to fix your problem. Makes sense to me.
Why connect the water supply conduit to the water line instead of feeding the water line through the conduit? I might be missing something. BTW, I started with your groundsource overview and each time I was left with questions there was another video to answer them. :) Thanks!
I build commercial swimming pools for a living. There are hundreds of pipe penetrations through pools. Best way to waterproof a pipe penetration is a product called “Swell Seal”. It’s very easy to install and relatively inexpensive. It’s essentially a swell tape. When water hits it, it swells up to create a seal. The more water that attempts to pass it, the more it swells. Link seals are very expensive, and so is coring smooth holes through concrete. Link seals also require maintenance and proper tensioning. They’re a pain in the ass basically. Swell seal is easier, cheaper, and better. However, swell seal is really only and option before walls are poured.
Do you check your comments? I'm trying to reach you because It seems you've given a lot of thought to your builds and I'm trying to figure out my next build. Comparing icf, standard build, and logs on a basement.
Great Stuff Pond and Stone is the best thing we have found for sealing holes in basement walls. My Dad has been a well repair guy for 30 + years and he hasn't had a leak since he started using it. We actually took a dry chunk of the Pond and Stone and tied it to a rock and sunk it in a pail of water for months. When we pulled it out it beaded the water right off and was completely dry.
Nice to see the video/photo of exactly what you were talking about. Picture worth a 1000 words.
Awesome info! Do you have makeup air for the bathroom or oven exhaust? What would you recommend?
We are building an ICF house and our builder made a smart suggestion for the sewer penetration in the wall. Instead of placing conduit in the wall, he inserted a solid piece (10"x16") of EPS inside the wall to prevent concrete from filling the space. The benefit is that this allows the plumber to fine tune the location based on the required slope and simply use a hole saw to cut through the EPS blank.
Interesting suggestion. It's nice to know there are always more than one way to do things.
You have great information and I've been looking for more ICF videos and cost analysis for it all. Great video!
Thanks so much for the kind words!!!
Hi there and Thank you for all of your video!) How do you protect electric and plumbing from accident nails etc?! Very important topic but no one talks about it.
Hey Garrett what your looking for is linkseal & GPT your cutting a square hole or round your choice about three inches around the pipe allowing concrete to flow around place 3/4 plywood on both sides of the icf watch the video and you'll get the idea good luck
This might be a bit late but you need to be careful with code requirements for wall penetrations. Sewer and Water sleeves sometimes must come out of the wall as a single piece a certain distance, in my area this is 5', so putting a coupling at the outside of the ICF may not pass inspection. Always check with your local building inspector or your city water and sewer department. Mine has a downloadable document that describes the requirements well.
Other thing to remember with electrical conduit penetrations, you cannot bury an Ell so make sure you locate the pipe low enough on the wall to make any upward turns you might need, especially if your service entrance is a meter on the side of the house that then comes down through the basement wall.
Just two cents from a plumber about that sump discharge, I would move that check valve up as high as you can on the pipe. You don’t typically want a large column of water constantly pushing down on that valve.
Makes sense. Thanks for the advice.
That would put a gallon per 6' of 2" pipe back into the sump basin every time it runs..
@@timm439 A plumber would suggest a DIY person to put the check valve up as high as possible, that way the water drops back down, triggers your pump again, then it goes bad by short cycling and you realize you need to call a plumber to fix your problem. Makes sense to me.
Why connect the water supply conduit to the water line instead of feeding the water line through the conduit? I might be missing something.
BTW, I started with your groundsource overview and each time I was left with questions there was another video to answer them. :) Thanks!
Feed the water line through the conduit, but put couplings from the waterline to the conduit to keep any outside water from coming in.
I build commercial swimming pools for a living. There are hundreds of pipe penetrations through pools. Best way to waterproof a pipe penetration is a product called “Swell Seal”. It’s very easy to install and relatively inexpensive. It’s essentially a swell tape. When water hits it, it swells up to create a seal. The more water that attempts to pass it, the more it swells. Link seals are very expensive, and so is coring smooth holes through concrete. Link seals also require maintenance and proper tensioning. They’re a pain in the ass basically. Swell seal is easier, cheaper, and better. However, swell seal is really only and option before walls are poured.
Thanks for sharing
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Do you check your comments? I'm trying to reach you because It seems you've given a lot of thought to your builds and I'm trying to figure out my next build. Comparing icf, standard build, and logs on a basement.
How it possible to put flue for wall heater in ICF?
It depends on the flue pipe and the clearances around it. Your local code requirements will tell you what you can use.
Hole saw in reverse.