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(Insulating Concrete Forms)
Introduction To Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF)  Today,
home buyers expect to get more from their new home. They want
beauty that's more than skin deep. A home that fits their lifestyle
- of course but also a home with solid, high quality constructions,
greater comfort and security.
Lower energy bills. Lower maintenance. A home that's
healthier to live in, and easier on the environment.
It's becoming harder and harder to meet their new expectations
with the same old building technology - wood framing. So more
and more builders and home buyers are turning to something
new. A modern adaptation of a centuries-old technology using
the most proven building material on earth. Concrete.
Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs) give you all the
benefits that have made concrete the material of choice for
home building worldwide: Solid, lasting construction that
resists the ravages of fire, wind, and Father Time. But ICFs
do plain concrete one better - or rather, two better - by
giving you two built-in layers of foam insulation.
This gives an ICF home some sizable advantages over an ordinary
stick-built home. Greater energy efficiency. More peace &
quiet. More sheer day-to-day living comfort. All wrapped up
in a solid, high-quality building package that gives an ICF
home an utterly remarkable feel that really has to be experienced
to be believed. As soon as you step inside, you can tell that
an ICF home is not an ordinary house. It's not just beautiful,
comfortable and quiet. You can feel that it's solid, built
to last. So just how expensive is it to get all these extraordinary
benefits? The truth is you can get superior ICF technology
for a lot less than you'd think. ICFs are so efficient to
build with and easy to use, that the cost of building an ICF
house is almost comparable (5-6% more) to that of an ordinary
2x6 wood-framed house. But you get so much more home for your
money. |
