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Why build with Insulated Concrete Forms?
- Insulated Concrete Forms provide superior comfort and quality that is attractive to buyers who are more quality conscious and are interested in other quality upgrades, creating additional profit areas for the builder.
- ICFs easy installation and superior construction advantages make your projects more profitable.
- ICFs eliminate:
- exterior wall sheathing
- Steel Moment Framing
- Expensive wood or steel beams in architecturally enhanced buildings (steel reinforced concrete replaces beams)
- Sheer Panels, and hold down hardware (simple rebar replaces expensive and complex hardware)
- Exterior Insulation (the forms are not removed, and are the insulation)
- Moisture barrier house wraps.
- This reduces the amount of materials and the number of subcontractors who require scheduling and supervision.
- The right ICFs are user friendly, easy installation and superior construction advantages make your projects more profitable.
- Have a complicated home design? ICFs can be easily accommodate designs requiring curved walls. No matter what the shape, it can most easily be done with concrete. Whether designing a high arch, a curved wall, rounded or odd corners, it can be done with concrete. No need to count dimensions for coursing or reinforcing placement. You can use exactly what you need, where you need it.
- Due to the superior strength concrete adds, homebuilders experience fewer callbacks for sheetrock stress cracks and other settling problems.
- ICF homes are durable and offer a better building envelope that lasts maintenance free for generations. Withstand Wildfires, are completely unappetizing to termites, and cost less to heat, cool and maintain.
- ICF homes can qualify for Energy Efficient Mortgages. Government H.E.R (High Energy Rating) offers financing options not available on stick built homes.
- Lower interest rates, increased income to debt ratios and lower closing costs give the ICF builder a real edge over the competition.
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