Awesome fckn video. ICF, cement, Bondo, a couple of biscuits, great music, and cold beer. Those are days you never forget! Well done, boys!

Thanks for smiling. Enjoy seeing someone that loves their work and willing to share you knowledge. Great video. Very helpful to me.

1.2K + 👍's up BB thank you for sharing 🤗

The best icf video yet! Keep up the good work!

thanks for taking the time. This video is packed with all kinds of little tips that can only be learned by experience (or watching your video) and will save hours of frustration. Thumbs up to you and your crew.

I completely agree with ghulands -- you do have the best Nudura content on KZfaq, in fact, much better even than Nudura itself. Nudura should sponsor you to do a real instructional set of videos. You, not Nudura, sold me on Nudura for my next (and first) ICF project.

Best icf video on KZfaq and you make it fun and funny. I’m moving from hawaii to Montana (people think I’m crazy)and I been watching your video and learning from you. I’m gonna be using Nudura .Thanks boss. Keep up the good work.

Bondo! Your Nudura videos saved my a$$ when we did our own garage foundation this year. (check the vids of our progress over on my channel). Our tips and tricks helped us first-timers feel like pros, even though we had a small blowout. Thanks! Keep up the good work!

You know, another nice thing about pouring the floor first is your new blocks are sitting on the nice clean floor! No mud and gunk! Love it!!

After being on a wall crew building basements and flipping panels here in Indiana these things are amazing!!! Wish I would’ve had these 15 years ago

Who said learning to put together Lincoln logs and legos couldn't be a job. They do make it easy from past ways. Keep it up.

All good stuff.. The information, the work crew, and the environment. Thanks

Great Video. Thanks for showing how you set up the ICF blocks. Planning a new build for myself and wanting to go with the Nadura blocks.

It's a very good system

Just had to wait for the next video to see how you attached the braces. Great that your crew/sons can have fun on the job!

Seeing the mess the bracing was in reminded me about a guy that borrowed a mortar mixer and some power tools from my dad. When we picked it up, the power tools were inside the mortar mixer which was filled with rusty water, the motor was also drowned, and the shaft was bent. The tools were scrap, and dad, being the resourceful guy he was, heated the shaft with an acetylene-oxygen torch and straightened it with a hammer, then he mounted a 3-speed washing machine motor. We could slow it down to add material, speed it to mix it slow it to dump, etc. He made lemonade from them lemons. Be careful to whom you loan tools.

good explaination, did all the good clicks and likes

After a while I got a discount at my favorite equipment rental because I returned the equipment cleaned and ready to go out again. A little bit of effort can pay well.

Thank you. :)

Hi Ron. I see how you've done your intrusions of sewer and water and other utilities. Here in Alberta we just bring everything into the envelope prior to pouring the floor and save punching and sealing additional holes. I'll be building entirely from blocks as the weather can go for days in the - 40 F range and up to a week or so of 100 F days so building for the future. I'll be using all of the thermal mass to not only decrease heating costs but cooling as well and to top of the structure 10 or 12" structural insulation panels. Top it off with hail proof once in a lifetime steel roof. I'll put in a boiler for in floor heating and hot water and an HRV unit for air handling. Electric will be as much low voltage as possible and triple pane glass and you get the idea by now where my goals are headed. Did you just use normal Nadura or the extra thick? I did notice you assembled on site and saved on shipping that way.

GREAT real life tips and tricks video, Ron! I agree with all the comments on how yours are the best Nudura videos on the internet. Question: have you used those Nudura EPS end caps in doorways and windows, and if so, what do you think of them. One the one hand, it creates a thermal break, but on the other, you don’t have the strong buck-to-concrete connection. (Maybe I’m just incorrect as to where you’d use those EPS pieces?) thanks!

Hi Bondo, love your videos....thanks for sharing. What is the highest single poor wall have you done? Im planning to build soon and have a 12foot wall....wondering if i can do it in a single poor. Thanks!

Hi Bondo, I've watched a few of your videos, very good & straight forward. I'm wondering if you have done a video covering corners that aren't a 90° corner, something like a 45°, or 35° etc. If you have done a video on those can you share a link to it ? Thanks

Another informative video 👍🏻👍🏻 Like to see how you cut down the Nudura block from 18” to 15” over the window 🤔

i would never let that guy use my scaffold again after the way he gave it back

No do You have a lot of good videos. I am installing 6 inch Build Block on an addition for 2 bedrooms and a master bath. The ICF is footer to roof between 12 to 14 foot vertical walls. It has been hard to find and engineer for rebar reinforcement. It seems 16 inch spacing number 4 bar horizontal works , any recommendations on vertical spacing ? We have this project and a much more elaborate project with ICF gable ends and maybe wrap around windows. Thanks in advance Tim

Concrete is strong in compression, weak in tension. A beam compresses at the top as it sags/bares weight and is stretched at the bottom. These forces decrease as they approach the center of the beam. So the steel at the bottom is providing the most help, the steel at the top provides little, the bar hanging in the middle provides next to zero additive strength. Put it instead down with the other 2.

I had been following your videos and I enjoyed a lot. What are your thoughts on the fiber rebar? I am curious. Keep the videos coming!

Great music! Forgot this question in comment below. I have an existing ICF foundation wall that I plan to extend upwards to full 8' ceiling. How would you treat this horizontal "cold joint" where my new blocks will meet the old? The existing is 2 blocks high sitting on an approved footer, the Inspector told me it was all checked out and passed 5 years ago. Nothing special planned for this building, other than PRACTICE, just some secure storage and possibly a bunk house while we build new home on site. Thanks for great informative videos!

Have you ever heard of or worked with an alternate form of ICF construction called, Nexcem? It is Canadian. Instead of using styrofoam for the walls of the building blocks, they precast the blocks with a wood fiber/cement compound and put rockwool inserts on one side of the block on the inside in order to get the desire R value for the whole wall. You still pour concrete into the inside like any ICF construction. Same concepts but different materials. If you do, please make a video.

Will the foundation crack where you have the common seam

They don’t have blocks like 1, 1/2 and 1/4 length, so you have more options as to where you can place your seams?

I was looking at Buildblock, but I'm interested in Nudura now. Which is generally cheaper to build with? Thank you for the great vids!

Always find that if the basement is poured first there is increased moisture problems in the basement.

Going to DIY a basement ICF and was wondering if there is any place that will rent the bracing?

Did you install the capillary break at the bottom of the wall between the wall and the slab?

How are you waterproofing the exterior below grade? Love to see a video!

You ever do a pool ????

Bondo, where is your company? You are close by and I'd like to talk about this. thx

Do you rent the bracing or does it have to be purchased?

What states are you serving? In case i want to hire you.

How long do you wait from pouring the slab to securing the braces to it? How are you attaching it to the slab?

How are you getting that concrete to flow under the windows without any voids? There’s only a few vertical spots to feed from and a whole run of blocks under the windows

Just sent off for Nudura quotes on two different projects from footing to the roof, lumber cost soooo high right now, seems like a better deal What are your thoughts on that?

Why not use 8 ft length of plywood at common seams vs multiple individual pieces ?

How long does a wall have to be so that you don’t get a common seam? Also, what kind of screws do you use for the common seam boards?

The issue (rant really), I have with IFC is the same as I have with most on-site constructed housing methods, cost control and little regard for obsolescence. Yes, IFC does potentially eliminate involving a traditional wall form sub-contractor, and yes the IFC wall is strong and energy efficient. What ICF does NOT do is address runaway cost of new home construction. Of course the 'odd' DIY home builder will use IFC to his own advantage, but typically IFC's will be sold and installed by a contractor. This country's inventory of homes built pre-1970 are by now mostly functionally and/or energy obsolete. No one knows the which advances will prevail after 50 years, we certainly didn't know in 1970. As consumers, it's time to stop thinking of homes as medieval rock-pile castles that need to last a 1000 years. New construction should be priced, financed, and constructed with obsolescence in mind, and 100% recyclability as a goal. Factory built homes can be set anywhere with a no or very minimal concrete foundation, and they've incorporated cutting edge energy efficiency since HUD re-wrote the rules 30+ years ago. 'Mobile home' stigma aside, and with tweaking to improve recyclability, a factory built home is the logical path forward. Future homes need to be thought of little differently then any device or machine that is eventually used up, scrapped, and replaced with something better. PS..I'm not a manufactured home dealer or in the manufactured home biz, but my last 3 homes have been manufactured types. My current home is certified wind zone 3 (110mph wind), with almost no concrete underneath.

NO REBAR FROM FOOTER TO THE WALL?

What city in New York do you all live and work in?

I wish you'd turn the music off so I can hear You better. It's really irritating.I wish you would turn the music off so I could hear You better. It's really irritating.

Amateurish! The constant camera shifting made me dizzy. May be some gems in the presentation, but for me it raised more questions than it answered.