Spider Tie Concrete Roof

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Spider tie concrete roof.

Icfs are somewhat common and have a lot of advantages such as affordability energy efficiency low rate of noise transmission etc. This system provides a temporary frame work that you attach your plywood using screws to hold it in place until the concrete has cured. The spider tie concrete roof system can make that happen. The entire structure is made of cellular concrete walls eaves and roof.

Making this home tornado hurricane and wild land fire resistant. Spider tie is a variation of icf insulating concrete form. Don t let natural disasters keep you from feeling safe in your own home. Dean humpherys 328 096 views.

Greg mcdonagh founder and ceo of spider tie says it s possible to put a concrete roof on a home for less than 4 dollars per square foot in materials. The spider ties function like 2 6 or 2 8 studs in the wall providing a surface to attach the plywood to. His system uses regular wooden trusses engineered to carry the load of the concrete. After which you simply unscrew your plywood which may be used again for future projects.

Since spider ties are webbed the concrete flows through them providing a solid monolithic concrete wall. This system provides a temporary frame work that you attach your plywood panels to using special screws holding it in place until the concrete has cured. These homes cost less to build than icf homes yet offer all the advantages and more. Homes built with the spider tie concrete forming system and cellular concrete from tag crete.

Spider tie is announcing it s latest development. The spider tie provides a brand new way to form concrete walls using plastic form ties that stay in the concrete once it has been poured. How to form pour and stamp a concrete patio slab duration. Spider tie developed a very low tech way to do this.