sure, but relative discounts are always welcome

Insulation is put in the wall gaps. It's just foam like substance. Not much dry wall would not be put in at this price, but owners are welcome to do it if they prefer that look.

@@TheBestNameEverMade ahh I see. That answers a huge problem I had with this system. That actually makes a lot of sense. So you don’t need any strapping inside for insulation and you’d leave the walls as bare concrete? Or parge/stucco them? Would you do the same thing on the outside? I’m from up north and no one uses stucco really so I was wondering how you’d run siding on the outside

@blackridgeproductions2738 they do use stuco with some, a few use decorative wall pannels, sometimes they paint them, sometimes leave them bare. Of course, any additional work increases the cost. Many like the bare look icon build does. I have seen one where the buyer of the home was smoothing the concrete by hand as it was printed. See icon's House Zero for an example of one with minimal additions. Bare outside and inside except for the bathroom and a few selected walls.

The term affordable home is loosely used often. It's all about who can afford the home. Trust it is not the lower income bracket.

the printing is around that cost~ ICON is currently between 25-34$/sq ft with their tech. this only addresses walls and foundation. so just about everything else is same as conventional, but its big progress

It's a mixture of concrete

@@Solutionarieswhat is this company? Do they just do east coast?

The cost of 3d printing has actually been higher for a while. I am still not sure I trust this company's claims as it has taken other 3d printing companies a lot longer to bring down the costs. In anycase they don't have many printers or crew that know how to operate them, and also, if demand goes up for the 70% of the other stuff that is needed to be done, that will increase price. There are not enough contractors, and 3d printing only attacks one part of the process.

@@TheBestNameEverMade Wouldn’t it be easier to hire people who already know construction and train them on how to 3D print houses? I imagine if demand goes up supply will too and workers will increase in number, therefore producing a house won’t be so costly.

@weeweefeet4030 I am not sure what you mean. They do higher people who know construction and also people who do not. Being able to pick from both gives a bigger supply and allows other construction workers to work on other parts of it. The nice thing about the 3d printers is that part you don't need physical labor, so there is more kinds of people who can work with it. I do think lower home prices will increase the number made and increase the total number of construction workers even if it takes half or a quarter as many people per home. The US for example is literally millions of homes behind what is needed at this point. That's 10s of millions of jobs, just for homes. I will point out that 3d printers are not just for homes, so the total addressable market is much larger. However, they need to get the low-cost to opperate printers that use the lower cost materials produced at volume. Icon 3d only recently unveiled a printer and material capable of serious competition with the regular market, and it's 2 years away from mass production. I don't think other 3d printing companies are close yet.