I appreciate your attitude towards your guys and how you treat them, and how every third word doesn't start with F. Having spent 45 years in the trades and putting down 100's of yards of concrete and laying 1000's of blocks, I know how rare you are 😮😊 God bless you, Ron!

Watching a good concrete crew work is always a pleasure. You have a very talented crew.

I love how you take your time and explain as you go. The introduction of the guys is a great personal touch. I would like to see more videos, Thanks

Ron, your videos are great! I've done concrete work years ago and this is great info for planning my ICF build.

You’re a great teacher! Thanks for all these vids!

Thanks for doing this video and all the instruction commentary. Awesome!

Ron, thanks so much for this video. I'm building a walk out with 10' stepped ICF walls and was thinking about placing concrete in the walls and then doing the floor, but I am definitely going to suggest to the concrete crew that we do it your way. It looks so much easier.

Great video and great ideal on pouring the floor with just the first row of ICF locked in. Much easier to get the perimeter troweled.

Get er done! Great information and a fun working environment, enjoyable and makes me want too watch more

Great vlog and a good video to teach up and coming lads and girls how to do right.👍👍🇬🇧Manchester England 🇬🇧👍👍

Great idea I'm building my house this spring out of ICF I'll be doing the floor before the walls after watching this.

I like your channel, Bondo, and the narration is great.

New subscriber. Will be watching more videos as we plan on our own build in a few years. Would love to do as much of it on our own. Learned more in the few videos I watched so far than any other foundation build so far. Good stuff!!!

Thanks for the videos - very informative & helpful! You answer a lot of questions! Great videos!

Great resource with this video! Thanks for sharing!!

Awesome work guys keep it good 👍

Respect from the UK, nice work my man.

Thanks Brother!! Enjoyed that a ton. I'm a newb, so I'm learning as I'm watching, Cheers and keep em' coming, I'll watch them all.

you boyz do good work. i have been in construction for 50 years.

Hey Ron, only just realised on this video that Biscuit (now Medium Biscuit) was your son. I got withdrawal symptoms so started going through your old videos that I don't think I've watched. Pre Circle-T is how I know I haven't watched it👍

Great idea only setting on course of forms before pouring!

Nice work. Great site prep and excavation, cost a bit more but so much better for the crew to have room to move freely on the perimeter.

That was a great video, useful and funny commentary.

Very nice details and informative. Thanks!

Brings a few memories of many many slabs and pours of every kind, keep up the great work.

Thanks for the share, really like the narrations.

Love the videos. Nice crew.

Yo! Bondo, I found your videos searching for the information about pouring the slab before the ICF walls and found exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you buddy, if you want to come do a winter job in TN I got one for you

Nice work guys!

Very informative !

Great video with excellant information provided

Damn, that’s a lot of hard work.

Nice work,will be building my own house in the spring with nudura,2000sqft per floor duplexe,no basement,i will watch more of your videos,Gatineau Quebec Canada

Grew up in the Burg ( Pittsburgh) , my Father worked in the construction business as a laborer & I knew how hard he worked through the years. Learned a lot by helping him with carpentry & various small concrete projects . Blue collar Italian family ! ! Lol My calling however was professional baseball ⚾️......been blessed 38 years . Love your videos Bondo , great job & very educational & well done .....my wife & I are thinking about building our dream home in Colorado , been living in AZ these past 25 years . I’ve been educating myself with ICF construction & methods , looking to build a passive Timberframe home but want to use the most energy efficient methods & insulation . I’ll be asking a lot of questions regarding your videos . Keep up the awesome work & continued success as well. My Uncle has a cabin in Kane, PA just south of NY border & where we always go hunting & fishing . Signed out of LSU with the NY Yankees too & spent time in Albany , NY ! ! ⚾️👍

great job again Bondo from UK

Great video Bondo, like your calm and cool demeanor with your guys, I've had so many subs (one time) that scream and yell and run ragged when it doesn't have to be that way. Here in the pacific northwest we use Fox blocks and Build block. I started with Quadlock because that's all I could get 25 years ago. May try Nudura but it always comes down to price and shipping. I'm only 2 hours from a Foxblock factory. Great job, glad I found you and I'll subscribe and watch some more.

Thanks a lot, I learnt as well as I was entertained

Good job guys

Great video. Thank you!

It was absolutely recommended to us to pour the floor before the walls and that’s what we did! Great video, thanks for sharing.

I’m planning on building a cottage in a year or two. Icf seems like the way to go. Keep up the nice work. Toronto Ontario, Canada

Great video

Great job man

Very nice work...

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and techniques, God bless👍🏻

ANYTHING you throw on the channel, I watch!

wish i could get you to come down for vacation an pour one of these exactly like this for me. awesome

Interesting way of doing that. We always mono pour the footers and slab as one; then start the ICF block build, then pour the walls.

From 300 subs to 6k keep up rhe good work my man

Wow, some real skill and pride there laying out the concrete! Wish you were in the Atlanta area. You likely know this, but Nudura's instructions state to use their low expanding foam all along the base...I'd feel better about not having blocks getting shifted off your nice strait chalk lines by doing it that way. They do it really fast...almost quicker than starting and stopping doing spots.

Did flatwork for my dad about 50-60 years ago. Sure wish it would have been this easy back then. I'd have stuck with it. Back breaking, nut-busting heavy hard work back then.

Great team.

Ishmael Yoder 😂😂 i thought you were serious for a second. Thought one of them left the Amish lifestyle lol. All these videos of your showing us how to do concrete just makes me that much more positive that i want you doing mine!

Nice content I like it !

At first I gave this a thumbs down, as I could not see how the lower course would hold. Boy was I wrong, this does look like a better sequence. Thumbs up!!

Great video! Have you ever used Superform? And does that foam hold them blocks pretty good ? How often do you foam them ? Thanks for the great video

I just subbed. I’m starting the planning phase for a starter house build; all self funded and minimal subs. You should add in your videos places where the equipment you use could be rented or bought. I’m personally interested in excavation and surveying

I would like to see a video on using the power trowel. Technique of use, when to adjust the angle of the blades, etc...

I have only seen a handfull of finishers as good as this crew. Mostly now in Az it's hurry , hurry hurry. Very few good finishers, I hope I am in that class. I'm 73 now EVERYTHING has changed. We had transits. Ugggggg.

Subscriber 852! Keep up with the great content and this will take off quick! Could you do a video on difference concrete mixes ie 3000 vs 4000 vs fiber reinforced and what it means to a homeowner and the longevity of their house? I keep hearing on videos that builders use the cheapest concrete available to save money and want to know what that means for the life of the house. Thanks!

Your wire is going to end up back on the bottom because they are walking all over it after the guy has picked it up. Why not use chairs to make sure it stays up?

Cool video. Pouring floor first is a great idea unless you have in floor heating... then I'd wait. Looks good tho.

Good channel real stuff no show but all GO

Wish I had thought of this when I did my ICF basement. I had 9'-4" walls up and the deck on, and I had to wheelbarrow over 16 yards of concrete, the truck chute could only get a small part of it and I was too poor to afford a pump truck twice (once for the floor, once for the walls). Should have done it this way and saved myself a lot of headache. Also would have been a whole lot easier to build the house afterwards. Kudos to you. Good idea and good job.

Really like these videos. Got any waterproofing recommendations/preferences for the exterior side of that ICF wall?

Wow Look at those tiger stripes that thing is burnished 🔥💪

I recognized that truck lol. My former coworkers.

I cut 2" notches at the bottom of the form about every 2', then poured 6" in the form. That way the floor and the wall are tied together. Then stack the wall blocks. Very solid.

Thumbs UP and thank you. :)

Bondo, your videos are awesome man. I’m getting ready to do my first icf foundation. Thanks for sharing them man. Any chance you’d travel to the Adirondacks to labor for a pour for me? Indian lake NY

Great content! Please post more Nudura videos, looking to build a two story house with it! Already subscribed. Have you guys ever made the second floor out of concrete? (maybe not common in the US, not sure)

Bondo, I am a impressed with your video. No BS. Your lines were star right. I am working with an older laser, what do like these days?

Cool video, even though your bells are backwards on the sdr 40 pipe. Smoother flow and nothing catches on the spigots if you keep the bells uphill.

hey, very interesting, ive done some icf work and ive always poured the slab after the walls are up and its a pain. im building a house this spring, our family home, just curious if you ever run into any problems doing it this way?

Great video and appreciate all you do. I am trying to learn some tips and tricks. In regards to the wire mesh, It sounds like you are trying to lift it up so that I assume would be somewhere near the middle of the concrete as you pour. How do you keep it from getting pushed back down to the bottom as you walk on it during the leveling and screeding part?

29:39 🤣😅😂 I can relate to that

Such great information! Thanks!! Just found you and have watched several videos and subscribed. Please please use the tripod more! I’ve never made videos-I just watch them😄-but the movement of the camera is too much for me. I know it’s possible to get the detail you show with less movement. I love the info! I’m gonna need to take Dramamine first though.

That was a good concrete pour. I’m planning on building a ICF cabin with full basement (if I can dig that deep) in NE Maine around spring 2023. Got to learn everything I can. How thick was that floor? Did you only have a moisture barrier or floor insulation as well?

Thanks for the tips! It looks like you didn't put in the horizontal rebar in that first course of block at the time of the pad pour. Is that right? Would the rebar help stiffen up the course of block so it is less likely to move while pouring the pad? I am about to do the same type of job. Thanks!

Just watched this vid. I thought it was a a unique way to pour the basement floor. A couple of questions, at the beginning you show the drain pipe with the bell end facing the downgrade and I thought the bell ends should face the upgrade, It may be different with that gasket pipe? Second do you ever use plastic rebar cradles to lift your rebar mesh off the moisture barrier?

I am new to this foam form system. I have a 5 ft frost line. If you use the foam footer and foam wall, would that be called a frost protected wall and would this reduce the depth of a standard stem wall?

Have you ever tried this with foam under slab? I feel like that would push the block tops outward since the weight is higher up on the initial row

Is Nudura much different than Logix ICF block basements? I like how you did the floor with only 1 row of wall blocks. good idea.

How did you do this? Did you come out one day and pour the footers. Let it harden then come back days later. Then put the blocks up. Then poured the floor. How much time in between the events?

Took me years to finally try one of those pro metal foam guns that you screw the foam cans to. Once i used it i realized ive been wasting my money and foam w the cans w plastic straw. Will never use the plastic straw again. Many reasons to use the cans w the metal gun.

I really like your channel. Im new to ICF . Question on this foam foundation you don't need any vertical rebar with this type of forms?

I'm planning a build soon. I got two estimate from build block and Fox block. Have you used either? If so is one better to work with? I'll try and get and estimate from nudera too.

Thanks for the video... It would be nice to know the times that each step takes like how long before you can get on the concrete and how long it took to (start to finish...) .

It’s been a while since I’ve worked with ICF’s but I know the spray foam trick work’s really well. I’m curious if the floor could be poured with the footer, monolith, like the slab on grade we have in the south?

Hey Bondo…..thanks again for another great video. I am more and more interested in using ICF in build my shop/garage. You mentioned the equipment you have….excavator, and a Kubota backhoe I believe? May I ask which model you have? I am about to pull the trigger on a 2017 Kubota B26TLB. I would appreciate your thoughts…. Thanks.

We've always waited until the walls were up in the roof was on. This keeps the basement from filling with water when it rains. It is code. You cant drain rain water into sewer systems. Thats the reason for waiting on basement slab. If it weren't for these restrictions everybody would pour the basement slab first....

I have a question: after you set all your wall blocks how do you set your braces with a finished floor ?? The "foot pad" needs secured, do you just drill and tapcon it into your concrete floor ?

Have you used Nudura series one and any experience with helix microbar in the walls? Great content.

Hey! I currently build with ICF as well and haven’t done this method yet. I have a couple questions, if you were to do a kick out wall to support the walls would you go with a T block or simple tie in with rebar? Also for large walkout would you just cut all of the blocks in the first row to match the height, then go up? Thanks

Starting my own build soon. I Have done step footers before and do not like doing that extra step! Do you leave the OSB on? Or strip it? Also how do you get rigid insulation on that poured frost footer?

Hi, great channel!....just wondering when you run underfloor heating pipes and then pour the slab, if you’re building with nudura afterwards, how do you put the bracing in without the bolts perforating the pipes in the slab? We were hoping to have a polished concrete floor so there won’t be any extra thickness to help. Thanks from London!

How are you able to brace the walls to the pad if needed? Say you did not have enough room on the outside perimeter to do it.

Good video. I am planning a similar multi section pour on some additions.Was planning to pour the first 3 courses of ICF walls and pour the floors which will be at grade or higher( with steps ). Would you consider pouring the ICF course first to stabilize the perimeter , guess you are okay with the spray foam holding it down? I have seen a few people pouring the footers and the ICF for a monolithic pour.

Great Video!!! Will this method work with in floor heat? As I can only imagine it would be tough to do the nice work you did with heater lines coming out of the floor?