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I just finished my house, 2900 sf + walkout basement, with the Nudura ICF, made in Canada. 8' long forms, 18" tall, that fold flat and hinge open, no assembling the webs. My entire house of forms would have probably fit in a shipping container, It was hauled to my site in two trips with an 18' bumper pull flat bed trailer.
The bigger problem is concrete - Here, (in Colorado) the fed's came in and made the stucco compaines that have their cement factories start shipping 2 truckloads of cement south every week. Forget the free market, concrete here is now both more expensive and rationed. Hence my post on the PTO cement mixers for my small projects - The yards will not sell anything less than 20 yards, since their big municipal customers contractors are getting on the waiting lists and buying all the product. If you hire a contractor that does a lot of business, he can get concrete, but there is still a waiting list.
And the price us up to $85 a yard (from $62 a year ago) with another increase coming in Janurary.
However, the ICF house is wonderful. We don't even notice when 60-90mph winds come down off the foothills when a big storm is coming in. My neighbors sleep in their basement on those nights so they don't have to hear the wind.
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I looked at ARXX - You definitly need anchors for hanging stuff, attaching siding/drywall/etc like arxx and the others have.
Nudura (www.nudura.com) has forms that fold/hinge on metal pins that are molded in the plastic webs. you unfold the forms (8' long, they go up fast) and then snap them to the block below. The nudura forms plastic ties are molded from the top to the bottom of the blocks, so you don't get compression of the foam. The tops/bottoms of the forms are design to lock toegether with a little ratchet toothed prong/socket (similar to a weak zip tie) so when you stack them, they stay stacked and don't float.
I don't sell them or anything, but I looked at every block, and this one had a bunch of advantages over the others. 2 of us stacked a basement with a 10.5' wall with lots of corners and T's in 2 days.
Since it folds flat, then hinges open, you don't have to ship air all over the place.
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