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Wood floors have a bit of bounce making them nice to walk on.

Back on track with the ICF house

Im thinking of putting the plumbing electrical and ventilation all under a wood floor on a 2.5' crawl space with enough room to shimmy under to hook things up. I'll make the walls 10 feet high and boom the crawl space is there and the floor can have R40 of fiberglass insulation.

The fiberglass will allow for access for repairs and upgrades



Some ball park costs so far for a 1000 sq.ft house

31 sheets minimum x $50 ea. = $1550 without cut losses

R40 insulation = about $1750

2x 12's including making beams 50 pieces at $30 for kiln dried 2 x 11 1/4 = $1500

So far that's $4800 plus assorted flooring, Berber my choice of carpet cost $1.39 sq.ft = $1400

With taxes the floor is about $7000 , without the hardware or nails.

Footing's

12"h x 18"w footings 8.5 m3 concrete =$2000

Roof Im thinking will be a flat concrete roof with a slope to the rear of the house for water collection and prevent pooling.

Costs unknown

Nudura makes forms for flat roofs but so do other companies I will study up on it this week.

I will seek out the price of forms and post what I find

So far
$10,000 for 6 inch concrete walls plus tax = $12000
$2000 for the footings
$7000 for the floor

So $21,000 without forms a roof windows doors electrical or plumbing

I guesstimate the roof and wall forms will cost about $20,000, its a uneducated guess

I'll email the company and get the straight goods