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.
Spider tie concrete roof.
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This system provides a temporary frame work that you attach your plywood using screws to hold it in place until the concrete has cured.
With the spider tie system you can form any shape wall in a fraction of the time that s required with all other systems.
This new approach is called i f s forming internal form supports.
The entire structure is made of cellular concrete walls eaves and roof.
How to form pour and stamp a concrete patio slab duration.
Spider tie developed a very low tech way to do this.
Spider tie is announcing it s latest development.
Making this home tornado hurricane and wild land fire resistant.
His system uses regular wooden trusses engineered to carry the load of the concrete.
The spider tie concrete roof system can make that happen.
Spider tie is a variation of icf insulating concrete form.
These homes cost less to build than icf homes yet offer all the advantages and more.
This is a system primarily designed to streamline building formwork and minimize the amount of labor required which it delivers.
Spider tie insulated walls and concrete roof part 1 and 2 duration.
The spider ties function like 2 6 or 2 8 studs in the wall providing a surface to attach the plywood to.
Homes built with the spider tie concrete forming system and cellular concrete from tag crete.
After which you simply unscrew your plywood which may be used again for future projects.
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.
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