I am curious to know why you want to use this sort of construction. The system works well for basement construction where much of the foam is well protected in the ground and you can form a good seal between the top and the floor decking but once you need to mount windows into it and seal a roof structure things begin to get more complicated. Nothing cannot be overcome of course and this is a similar problem with the insulated panel style of construction as well.
There is a lot of construction that goes on, you need very good scaffold to carry workmen and pressurized cement hoses, they must be fastidious about filling all of the voids in the foam forms and a lot of work goes into installing all that rebar, wiring the joints, spacing it away from the edges and so on. There needs to be structure for installing windows and doors and it needs to be precise and not move during pouring. finally, how ever you choose to cover the building you are into screwing some sort of strapping into the plastic foam retainers. This is one thing on the inside of a basement wall but something very different on an exterior wall, not impossible of course but additional complication. I imagine it would be difficult to modify such a structure as well, put on an addition or alter a window. The system does allow pretty good insulation though. Again I am curious as to what interests you in that sort of construction. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Hecker To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] building question I don't know of anyone in this area who has built a house like this. Shane ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] building question Shane, do you know of others in your area who have built such a house? Perhaps a call to those who wil mix and deliver your concrete would be a good idea, for instance of how much weight is involved with each wall and might they suggestet a thicker or wider footing and how to tie the walls in with the footings. a well planned project such as this, as you know will come out better. Good luck., oh, I forgot . where are you building this house? Lee On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:40:27PM -0500, Shane Hecker wrote: > Has anyone built a concrete house using the insulated concrete forms? If so, > how did it go? Is it what you expected as far as energy savings? Are there > any problems to watch out for? I'm asking because I'm considering building a > house in this way. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. > > Shane > -- Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villages -- locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back -- so as to experience relief when one returns back to "the present." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
