Spider Tie Roof

Don t let natural disasters keep you from feeling safe in your own home.

Spider tie roof.

It would certainly be a challenge to use spider ties with something like quad deck. After which you simply unscrew your plywood which may be used again for future projects. With the spider tie system you can form any shape wall in a fraction of the time that s required with all other systems. Titan icf new member.

Andrew bater posted in green building techniques on september 16 2017 02 42am showed up on facebook today. Spider tie concrete house. Making this home tornado hurricane and wild land fire resistant. Spider tie is a variation of icf insulating concrete form.

It allows the construction of a sloped roof made of reinforced concrete. His system uses regular wooden trusses engineered to carry the load of the concrete. Spider tie developed a very low tech way to do this. The spider tie concrete roof system can make that happen.

Since spider ties are webbed the concrete flows through them providing a solid monolithic concrete wall. An icf roof will come with a higher price tag than a conventional roof but i am planning one for my own home for all of the reasons you listed and more. It looks to be an 8 icf tie minus the eps. 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.

Icfs are somewhat common and have a lot of advantages such as affordability energy efficiency low rate of noise transmission etc. Homes built with the spider tie concrete forming system and cellular concrete from tag crete. Spider tie is announcing it s latest development. The entire structure is made of cellular concrete walls eaves and roof.

This system provides a temporary frame work that you attach your plywood using screws to hold it in place until the concrete has cured. In an area where natural disasters are common that s intriguing. I didn t find it in a search on gba. Spider tie concrete house.

These homes cost less to build than icf homes yet offer all the advantages and more. I only see one size of spider tie. This new approach is called i f s forming internal form supports.