thick foam insulation for use as kneeling boards ... pry up on the stakes with a shovel to loosen and remove the forms. Since the concrete surface will be soft and easy to chip or scratch ...

Dear Jim: I am thinking of building one of those concrete/foam block houses for efficiency, security and strength. Since concrete feels so cold, is it really energy efficient and will I be limited ...

Durisol does not burn or melt. This is not the case with styrofoam and other ICF products. The smallest Durisol wall has a 4 hour fire rating, zero flame spread, smoke spread of 11 and no black ...

“I finally told my husband, ‘We can pour concrete every day ... The Mono Slab EZ Form is made of specialty foam, and therefore light weight. It’s designed to stay in place with backfill ...

Insulated Concrete Forms are a clever building system where two slabs of insulating foam are separated by plastic ties; you just stack them up, throw in some reinforcing bars if required ...

These rods passed through the concrete forms. Slots at each end of the rod ... much like you see with spray foam insulation. If you’ve ever used this foam, you know it goes into a crack one ...

an insulated concrete wall system he and his wife developed in 1995. E-MAXX, now sold through Western Forms, consists of thermal panels of extruded foam and T-Studs. "The thermal panels have a ...

“We had never used foam as concrete forms before, but this project really opened our eyes to the possibilities of this dynamic product and its ability to help us solve construction challenges in ...

The insulated concrete form, or ICF, first emerged about 40 years ... The format uses recycled foam templates that are reinforced with steel and then pumped with concrete. The panels are used ...