Building a new shop

[Jordan Baker]

For the foundation wall I wanted to use Insulated Concrete Forms or ICF. With wanting to do as much on my own as possible here seemed the best way to go. This also provided me with a fully insulated foundation wall with over 5” of insulation. This was important as I’ll will be doing infloor heating eventually and I didn’t want heat loss through the foundation wall. The other advantage of the ICF is that I was able to build the entire foundation on my own and get all the rebar in two days worth of work. Some help was done with wood bracing ….then everything ground to a halt with a concrete shortage. 3 weeks went by before I was able to get two trucks worth to get the walls poured. Once the walls were poured and sat for a few days I was able to the big hole all back filled. Finally after two months I was mostly out of the mud.