Contents Overlaying ICFs onto existing frame plans Changing wall lengths and opening positions to match ICF break points Picking the crew Site Preparation Making bucks Setting the first course Corner braces Stacking sequence Setting vertical rebar Aligning and plumbing walls Holding down forms against floating Building a floor deck Concrete placement equipment Pour pattern Pouring a gable end Consolidating concrete Attaching roof members Attaching interior walls to ICF walls Making electrical cutouts Interior finish Attaching trim and fixtures Exterior stucco Attaching exterior siding Miscellaneous

Commonly used methods

• Method 1: Use wire mesh and conentional stucco

• Method 2: Use fiberglass and polymer-based (EIFS-type) stucco

Comments:

Peter Juen- SE Florida Polysteel Inc.
Phone: 561-225-5404
Email: seflpolyst@aol.com
In Southeast Florida we use several types of stucco:

1. Bonding agent on the forms, with metal lath screwed to polysteel metal furring strips and regular mortar stucco on top.
   
2. Bonding agent on the forms with fiberglass (EIFS-type) mesh screwed to metal strips or floated in with mortar-based scratch coat. Some builders remove the Polysteel crimped-on metal furring strips on the outsided and bond/float fiberglass mesh over the exposed expanded metal form tie steel.
   
3. Bonding agent and regular mortar stucco with chopped fiberglass mixed in with the scratch coat.
   
4. An EIFS type stucco system.