ICF

Question 1

Name three types of ICF

Answer 1

Block plank and panel form

Question 2

What is the standard Block size?

Answer 2

419 mm (16 1/2) high and 286 mm (11 1/4 )wide and 129 mm 48 long so (16 x 48)

Question 3

ICF forming starts at the

Answer 3

Corners and work towards the centre

Question 4

And describe the bracing needed in the corners of the blocks

Answer 4

Nail two 2x6’s into an L stand it in the corner and plum and brace it

Question 5

How are the Blocks braced along the rest of the wall?

Answer 5

Using vertical two by fours that are fastened to the furring strips on the blocks with screws and braces are attached to these uprights

Question 6

Where do you have to make special bucks for?

Answer 6

Door and window openings

Question 7

How are scaffold planks attached to the system?

Answer 7

They are attached to the vertical braces or bearers

Question 8

What is the minimum thickness of an ICF foundation?

Answer 8

150 mm 9.15.4.5

Question 9

When is ICF foundation considered to be laterally supported

Answer 9

Top and bottom 9.15.4.3.4

Question 10

When is an ICF foundation considered to be laterally supported at the top

Answer 10

When such wall supports a solid masonry, superstructure floor joists are embedded in the top of the foundation when the floor system is anchored to the top of the foundation with an a Anchor, bolt

Question 11

When is an ICF foundation considered to be laterally supported at the bottom

Answer 11

Supports backfill, not more than 1.2 mm in height, supported at footing by a sheer key and at the top by ground floor framing

Question 12

Horizontal reinforcement shall consist of 110 M bar and related not more than 300 mm from the top of the wall

Answer 12

True

Question 13

If the height of the finished ground above the finished basement floor is 1.6 m in the maximum unsupported basement wall is 2.44 m what size bar and what size spacing would be called for

Answer 13

10 AM, bar at 400mm O.C

Question 14

Where should reinforcement be located when placed in a foundation wall, both vertical and horizontal and what would be the minimum cover?

Answer 14

Inside half the wall section and with a minimum cover at 30 mm from the inside face of the concrete 9.15.4.51B and 2B

Question 15

How would a cold joint be reinforced?

Answer 15

 No less than 115 mm bar at not more than 600 mm on centre and embedded 300 mm on both sides of this joint

Question 16

How should the floor Joyce be supported on ICF foundation walls?

Answer 16

Ledger boards, and anchor bolts