Mike, you are a good teacher. Thanks for helping train incoming trade workers. Its going to make a big difference for NYA Millennial. Here is his video for ICF second level stacking kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7KXpNl9p7K6fKs.html

Pretty cool that the ICF block company has a training course and that guy was able to come out and watch your team do this job. Be safe boys.

Y’all make it look so easy, there’s no replacing experience

Thanks for the video Mike!

So true what you said about subcontractors leaving imperfections for the next guy to deal with. By the time you get to the finished product it’s a snowball effect and your house is a mess. I was working with a general contractor awhile back and his foundation guys and framers and drywall crew had all been working with him for around 20 years so they all knew each other and there was good communication and rapport with each other. The end result was straight walls and no nail pops and everyone was happy - including the customer. Makes a huge difference in my opinion.

This is such an amazing procedure, love watching. Thank you for sharing.

Really awesome to see that you make time to train and give hands on experience. Thanks Mr. DP and Matt.

Such an interesting process! My neighbor owned the local concrete outfit and built one but I never realized how much was in it. Always enjoy the videos !

Great work, hats off to the crew!

You Sir Mike do an very good job of explaining what you are doing and why " 1/2', 1/4" right of the Line" seen it done wrong before and they messed with it for hours, big fan of ICF and the people like you who care about the guys who are coming behind you, Framers etc. it speaks of the type of work you do and the man you are, thanks for the share, looking forward to seeing Lt. Dan again .

When the job is done. The sky's will part and the beautiful sun will shine. Lol God bless

Excellent presentation all around. I’m sure a lot of the trades people, and their customers will benefit the info you shared on this one !! Thanks, John

Great job as usual. Be safe and god bless guys.

Love using floor trusses! Electrician and HVAC guys can leave their sawzall in the truck and leave my framing uncut! I use those same brackets for our ledger boards! Great video and job! Have a good day!

Great video and job, thanks for sharing. Kevin

Mike, this video is truly one of your best instructional videos. I’ll build an ICF home in a couple of years; you’ve helped me a bunch.

Excellent tutorial of ICF concrete pour , learned a lot . Great video

Great video lots of information. And I like the new release time of this video

Good job my friend knew you could do it God bless and your crew🙏🇺🇸👍

Would love to build a ICF house! Thanks for the opportunity to watch! Great work!

Cool stuff! Neat to see this project and how it came out!

You run a good crew and passing on your knowledge is great! Wish we used much more ICF here in uk 🇬🇧 it’s rare to see but I like the process and end result ! :)

Very informative. The final looks awesome.

Some body was burning the candle at both ends with this early (or late depending on your point of view) upload. I should talk since I'm watching it at 2:20 AM. LOL Love following your vids Mike.

Good to see it topped off. That's going to be an energy efficient house.

It was most interesting, your doing a good job.

👍 yeah 👀 the wall move & the adjuster extension was spot on helpfull.

Thanks.

Hey Mike, you have a wealth of knowledge and experience to pass on, hope those students were all like sponges!!! Good job all round 💪💪💪

that would be great for matts company. great products. thanks for the great vids. cheers.

Looking good. Thats a lot of windows to work around!

thanks for the video Mike

Wrap a little bit of electrical tape around the joint of the socket extension when adjusting the Plumb wall braces. It stiffens it up just enough to make it much easier to get it into the nut. Learned that from an experienced mechanic.

Awesome work Mike

Thank you for your videos.

Geweldig gedaan top job 💥🤩👍👌💪 Groetjes uit Holland 🥰👋🏼🌷🌷

Great job DP!

looks great, nice work, stay safe..

Awesome knowledge with the video. I didn't know about icf until I began watching your vedios 😃👍❤️

Very informative!

Makes me wanna build an ICF house!

Happy late birthday Mr Dirt Perfect hope u had a wonderful birthday buddy

It’s been a great experience!

I wish you were over here in Australia when I saw a guy build his house with icf he had no idea what he was doing and core filling the walls took for ever and blew out around the windows what a mess. You make it look easy and do an awesome job

hey if you ever demo a building with a rubber roof try and save strips of the roof a few feet wide super handy for job site walkways when you expect a mud pit

It's not winter fat now, it's spring rolls

I pumped one of them ICF Jobs today here in Ireland it was only a small one 5 cube in it just an extension onto a House

I like the posting time as well.

Yeah a lot of times those little tiny pieces of experience are priceless especially when you’re coming to something like this it sounds simple which it is but it’s not textbook simple as they would like it

Think we need start a protest to see the bed install video of lt dan .;)awsome video buddy as always just good tv

nice job, great info

That came out rather darn nice! Having the right stuff to work with was key.... It proves that the right tools, right materials and right minded people are priceless! Mikey this was a superb video. PS: thanks for subscribing to my channel. It makes me want to up my game!

Great video

That had to be the smallest leaf blower and longest extension I've seen . It's amazing how having the right tools saves you so much time and labor .

Maybe a new enterprise, ICF basics by Dirt Perfect. I learn something about ICF every video you do on them.

Mike, I enjoy the ICF builds. How about an interview with a family a year later in their home to discuss how they like the their home.

Great video Mike that’s a big building, how many square feet is it going to be? Show us after it’s complete. Thanks

Job 👍 well done 👌

firewoodfred says " I know how it is with the weather. Been trying to get a wall backfill job done. Every time we schedule it rains and its too muddy. That's life in Brighron Mi".

Nice

Happy Birthday DP didn't get a dictionary for your birthday then 🤔

We use an orbital sander and a rebar shaker to help vibrate the concrete. Just saying.

Plumwall would be smart to let you keep that system so it would keep being seen in use on the channel.

Thanks Mike and Matt for this educational video. Mike, what is the R-value as the walls stand now and do you stud up and insulate inner walls. Thanks again. God Bless.

Interesting to see that the company is moving away from ICF installations. I have learned so much from watching you do your ICF thing.

So much for not walking in the mud, careful what you say. Look at your pants and boots, mud everywhere 😂👍🇺🇸

When I did remodeling and add ons we never did whole walls like this. We just used the insulated blocks for the basement, then stick framed the rest. We didn't need concrete in the walls above the basement.

My Nudura class in 2020 was cancelled because of the Corona AIDS in the UK I am looking at taking it once they open up again I am also looking at flying to the USA for a class once the flight bans are lifted.

Like the new posting time Mike.

Hey Mike, When watching you put that first piece of foam on in slow-mo, I thought I was watching a cartoon where you at the end, would get "WACKED" on the head with the board, and see cartoon "BIRDS" flying around your head. LOVE it man keep it up!!!!! Later : }

As a 40 year veteran Aerospace Engineer, I have lived/worked in 38 Countries and most of those build their houses in Concrete, including the Villa I currently own in the French Riviera. And more than that, living many years in Israel (during both Gulf Wars), I can personally attest to the strength (and emotional support) this kind of construction lends ... have a SCUD Missile detonate 1km from your house and all you lose are your Windows (which got duct taped to prevent glass chards flying) but nothing else moved a mm. I am originally from Texas ... was there during the Tornado that hit Fort Worth back in 2000. And ever time I see the destruction like we just saw in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, I just shake my head and ask "why?" ... knowing Insurance (idiots) and the homeowners will probably build back in conventional "wood" methods (and as a young man, I know that as well being a "Framer" for a few years). Same for our Hurricane prone Gulf/East Coasts ... ICF is like a "Boat" (if properly coated). All I can say is thank goodness folks like you are slowly turning the Tide (pun intended) ... I've oft said that if I was POTUS after the horrible loss in Property/Life that accompanies these events, I wish I could have a "Fireside Chat" with the American public and simply read them the story of "The 3 Little Pigs" ... maybe they'd get it.

DJI drone? It the great video!!!

you should think about getting a boom truck if your going to do basements regularly. the reach is amazing you will find yourself using it for all kinds of things and if you get one with a nice open flatbed you can carry all your bracing on the truck combine with a concrete pump trailer and your a one stop shop you can hang the pump hose from the crane and have the capability of a big pump truck. crazy thing is though the pump will cost more than a boom truck with a 100ft boom

Great videos love watching them. I have a question... first lift (basement walls), does the next row of blocks need to be clipped vertically to the last pour? Noticed the concrete is poured above the brackets, so securing with clips can't be done. Or does it hold without the use of clips. Newbie here in Prince edward Island starting a self icf build in the spring. Thanks

does your bracing system have brackets for handrail on the inside? when I did a icf commercial job the bracing we use had handrail for fall protecting it just snapped right in then you slid 2x4s through the 2 slots worked pretty good. even though the walkway is under 6ft so you can get away with no handrail its not a bad idea. also watch how the walk boards overlap sitting one way is great the otherway is a loonytoons joke setup

Morning DP and MBTS. That kind of concrete jobs make me mad. Honestly they would have to clean it up

I’m surprised that you don’t scabble the top of the concrete (mechanically remove grout back to aggregate) back when I was pouring walls the engineers were really hot on it ! I mean on the cured top of the wall that will become the bottom of the next pour, The idea is to increase the strength of the joint.

just as a point of interest. a couple of weeks ago when you were working on the truck build, i mentioned to you in a post, that i thought the frame looked like it had a small curve in it. you8 said NO, it was straight, and i should look again. well you were right, and as always, i was wrong. believe it or not, it is my screen for the computer. the screen i have is a 32 inch CURVED L.E.D. screen, and watching you or anyone doing a straight wall, it looks like the walls have a curve in them. SORRY for doubting your work

So what are you planning on doing scene you getting out of the icf building.? You going to stick to working dirt ? Good video !! Daniel from central Mississippi

I didn't know you were at Mian level, The Aztec's were good but Mian? Wow,lol

I’m surprised the advertising for Plum Wall did not justify giving you the braces for free. They must cost a lot more than I thought.

I know NYA Millennial doesn't want to lose subscribers because they cannot find him. Matt I am sure you will get plenty of subscribers.

You have some awesome subscribers. That extension looks like the perfect length for you.

good video

Nice video and info you had said before that fox blocks gave a straight wall with less bowing question do you think it’s because of the 6 inch tie spacing versus 8inch spacing? Thanks

Good explanation how do they run the wire on outside wall of icf

Mike you did a good job explaining how things work. Now why are you wanna get out of this type of work?

there is now way i would walk or stand on the bracing i cant most of the time walk in a straight line. a podcast with living legend dozer man jerry would be a great podcast

A lot of windows 🪟 my wife would love that.

I like your solution over the window with the 2x4s. Loss of insulation would be minimal and like you said, great for window treatments. And the wood probably only adds $25,000 to the cost of the house. 😂 😂

Good morning Mike I know you are a big fan of ICF . Are there any negatives of using this over a removeable form type or a block type wall ? I saw one KZfaqr/contractor that said he doesn't use this type of system , because in his area no exterminating company would give any type of warranty against termites and other insects because they don't leave visible signs . I guess those critters go behind the foam ?

Looked like a well oiled machine going on there at that job site... is that the same “Matt” that you poured 1/2mile of driveway awhile back...?

Damn you Michael! You make it look so easy. Not taking anything away from Matt, everything I have seen him do is quality work but, he will never be as good as you. Sorry Matt but you have some big shoes to fill. 😁 And why isn't plum wall giving you those braces? You've probably sold 100 or more sets for them. Great, great, great video Michael. Did I say great video?

Don’t know the cost of the braces but you might consider them a bonus for all the projects Matt has helped you complete. I’m sure if ICF is part of his future he would never forget it. Not a hand out but paying it forward.

Well done as usual DP. So, you are farming off your cement work to Mike and his crew? Hmmm... You planning on being a GC? (stands for Grand Commander by the way)...lol. Heck, you didn't even do your own driveway!, lol. Now you can have a 4-letter name like MBTS...DPGC!

oh he told me I am just to impatient to wait

What brand of truss bracket did you use and are you happy with them? Also do you put some type to moisture barrier between he trusses and the concrete in the wall? Wish you worked in the north end of state. Not much in the way of ICF contractors up this way.

My foundation is crumbling away from water and sunlight damage. There’s a hole about the size of a fist now. Majority of the plaster coating is flaking off. I could use any advice so I can fix it myself. I had 4 masonry contractors to quote me, and they are from 3200 to 9k... any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve looked on KZfaq and not really happy with the videos out. Thanks again

Dude. Make a scanner that can see thru ICF to evaluate where voids are in cement

Watching this video it struck me as to how tidy the whole jobsite area was maintained.