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Concrete specialist Justin Farley reaches for a mag fl oat to smooth the top of the concrete home’s exterior walls.
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last 10 years.
Winkler had built 12 traditional homes when he started
his concrete home, and was taken by surprise by the ease and
speed of using the Logix ICFs. Once the slab was complete, he
set up the interlocking ICFs (adult Legos, as Farley calls them)
on a Monday morning and had them fi lled with concrete by
Friday afternoon. The thought of pouring that much concrete
into foam blocks was pretty intimidating. “I literally thought
I was going to lose my mind,” Winkler recalls. But in the end,
he says, “It was almost strangely easy.”
That Monday-to-Friday pace is about the same time
framing would take in a stick-built house. The difference is