ICF for Floors & Roofs - Quad-Deck Insulating Concrete Forms

Creating suspended concrete slabs using Quad-Deck Insulated Concrete Forms - used for floors, roofs, green roofs, radiant heating and much more

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[TheGoodvideoclips]

this is very interesting .

however I would like to have seen how the quad deck looked like from the ground floor looking up ,

Do you screw on a plaster board and plaster over it

or do you just plaster directly on to the quad deck polistiren to make your ceiling?

[ICFbuildings]

@TheGoodvideoclips

There are continuous steel strips within the Quad-Deck every 12 inches that allow screwing of gypsum board to it. These steel strips also reinforce the polystyrene sufficiently to carry all the construction loads with shoring usually spaced every 6 ft. You can also apply plaster / stucco directly to the underside (may require rasping for better adhesion).

[Dethreid]

@TheGoodvideoclips

My understanding is that the foam is rigid enough that you can skrew drywall directly too it, or apply plaster directly too the foam after you rasp it to rough up for good contact.

Personally I would just have pre-cast + pre-stressed double Ts delivered, similar to the ones they use in parking garages.

Overall though this system rocks because concrete kinda sucks at insulating.