Rich and Patty Kubica, owners of K-Wall Poured Walls in Asheville, N.C., are concrete contractors who have found a forming system that offers several green benefits to homeowners. So when Cliffs ...

While there are many reasons for smooth, featureless walls, when you want the look of stone, brick, wood or other high-end architectural finishes, patterned concrete makes an attractive, inexpensive ...

For decades, concrete walls and foundations were made the same way. Plywood or plain boards are built into forms that contain steel reinforcing bars (rebar) and into which wet concrete is poured. When ...

They have their virtues, but concrete and petrochemical sandwiches shouldn't be on the green building menu. Insulated Concrete Forms are a clever building system where two slabs of insulating foam are ...

There was an entire row of exhibitors showing various incarnations of insulated concrete forms (ICFs) with their styrofoam walls and their plastic ties that are filled with concrete and then labelled ...

Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...

A lot has been written about insulated concrete forms (ICFs) the past few years but mostly by manufacturers. We have two winters and one summer under our belts now and it’s time to weigh in from a ...

Unlike wood, brick and most other building materials, concrete starts soupy but finishes like a rock. That transition allows the mix to be formed into foundations, steps, walks and piers of almost any ...

Q: I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children's plastic blocks. Does a concrete foundation ...

DEAR TIM: I live in a very common home here in Florida. Most are built from concrete block. Twenty years ago, a room was added to the home and the rear exterior concrete block wall became an interior ...