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Polysteel - concrete forms?
In my area of the country, the Northeast, it is very difficult to find a mason to sub our foundation work to. At a recent homeshow I discovered a modular concrete form system called PolySteel. The idea is that the local rep will develop the materials list for the Polysteel system and then my carpenters can build and install the
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Drywall over ICF's
We are going to pour our first basement (walkout, Grand Rapids, MI) using ICF's (2 1/8" of foam on each side of the ICF, with a 7" core of poured concrete). The exterior side of the wall will be covered with Platon System water proofing (tough, dimpled, high density, polyethylene Air Gap Membrane www.systemplaton.com, straight off their website). My question
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Building Paper over ICFs...
Does anyone know if it's proper to wrap the exposed foam of ICF blocks with building paper (felt, Typer, or otherwise).
Here's my concern...
On a conventional house, siding prep calls for lapping all housewrap over the head flashing of windows below. That way, any or all water making its way in, past the above siding, drains out and over
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