Building your ICF home - Completing Block Placement

Building your ICF home - Completing Block Placement

Fox Blocks at World of Concrete Canada

Fox Blocks at World of Concrete Canada

Glen's Contractor Tip Corner: Short Jogs
I had a call this week from a con­trac­tor who want­ed to know if there was an easy way to build a two foot jog into a wall. This brought back flash­backs of when I used to attempt to inter­lock cor­ners think­ing the strength of the inter­lock was going to hold things togeth­er dur­ing con­crete place­ment.
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How to Assess Contractors for Building with ICFs
Do ICFs require a special concrete mix design?
The con­crete is nor­mal strength, min­i­mum 2500 psi (20 MPa) per build­ing codes. The mix design spec­i­fies a small­er aggre­gate and high­er slump than con­crete typ­i­cal­ly used for floors. Most Ready-Mix sup­pli­ers are famil­iar with an ICF con­crete mix design.
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5 Construction Industry Trends in 2019
In 2019, con­struc­tion indus­try trends wel­come advance­ments in build­ing meth­ods and mate­ri­als; how­ev­er, the indus­try still strug­gles with ongo­ing labor short­ages.
Fox Blocks First Course No Concrete leaks at bottom of Fox Insulated Concrete Form wall

Fox Blocks First Course No Concrete leaks at bottom of Fox Insulated Concrete Form wall