ICF Home Build (#15): Laying Rebar, Inspections and Pouring Concrete for Footings

Finally laying rebar in the footer trenches despite the rain. Also stressing over building inspections. Will we have to tear it out and redo it? Ugh. We are ready to pour concrete in these footings!
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[@roniniowa1661]

Judy, we all appreciate your generosity to this family. The Internet should be used more for kindness, generosity and learning. The Guildbrook family certainly encompasses this as well.

[@warren519]

I like to congratulate Jeremy for being the only person to carry a weapon while constructing his new off grid home. I see many off grid Homesteader building their home & not protecting themselves. Most Homesteader are aware that wild animals roam close to where they living. Electric fence would be a good deterrent & also carry a weapon. A couple of weeks ago a bear rampage thru one of the Homesteader. Luckily they weren't home.

[@sherrydesmarais7032]

Boy does that ever bring back memories!!! We built our ICF house 12 years ago, 3500 sq.feet from the outside wall. We love it. Temperature is easy to keep constant, snow storms can blow away and we don’t even hear them. We will never live in a stick house again!

[@missOhdrey]

I have been watching your channel since the canning videos. Very excited for you!

[@nathanhollis8496]

I had no doubt the inspection would pass. You have done more quality control work in just the footer than most contractors put into an entire build. I know its time consuming but your constant checking, measuring and rechecking will pay off. I'm glad to see somebody take so much pride in something. Can't wait for the next video. Thanks for sharing

[@sovereigns1grace]

The house has feets!!! Yay! Can't go wrong with OCD LOL. Sure wish I could be a Judy for y'all. Love watching the process. So educational. Thanks guys! 💘

[@elfwoodadventures2103]

Thank you Judy!!!

[@oneness3359]

Your welcome

[@PaulyOutdoors]

@Judy Adams - You are the type of person that gives me hope for humanity! God Bless you dear!

[@nathanhollis8496]

Bless you Judy!!!!

[@ladyinthemountains2527]

Oh my gosh the girls have changed so much! Beautiful young ladies. Love seeing your progress!!

[@s.e.fernandez4002]

It's been understandably . . . quite a while since both of you seem optimistic and motivated. I'm very happy for you and excited that you have been relentless in making your dream come true!

[@lindacummings6921]

Jeremy's OCD was a wonderful asset in getting the footer setup approved. Great job!!! We are all cheering for you, and enjoying watching your progress.

[@Jeff_MT09]

Hi Jaime and Jeremy. Another excellent video, with a great deal of quality work achieved. I found your channel only recently, so I have been back to watch all your videos. You are both very inspiring, hard working and determined people. I think it is so good of you to put yourselves out there on KZbin to the world. So, I say thank you for allowing myself and others to be part of your journey. I’m very much looking forward to future videos as you make progress. Wishing you and your girls all the best. Regards from Australia. Jeff 👍😀🦘🦘

[@rustybell2722]

@Jeff MT09, I couldn't have said it better. I anxiously wait for another vid so I can see how everyone is doing. How big the girls have gotten. What's happening with all of them. I respect them SO much and love being allowed to be a part of the journey.

[@Jeff_MT09]

Rusty Bell Good on you for your comment. Thank you. Without doubt, they and their channel are so inspiring. Cheers. 👍😀🦘

[@davidkilbourne2711]

You guys are living the dream! I'm happy to see how your doing. When I built houses we used masons for the block work but the ICF style wasn't as popular as it is now. I can't wait to see the process! I guess I'm old school.

[@unclemikessouthernoutdoors3783]

Looks like you have a great inspector that works with people!

[@noc8076]

When I heard the trucks you ordered I just knew it would be short. Do yourself a favor, take some scrap wood and build some boxes that you can pour excess concrete into. Either make pavers or blocks for smaller retaining walls. Every time you order concrete there should be some excess and with ready forms it won't go to waste.

[@jtsdeals]

I had the same feeling. I watched Al Lumnah build his barn and he ordered extra with the idea of pouring a sidewalk with whatever was left. Fortunately it seems that getting the extra 2 yards didn't seem to be a big deal.

[@upnorthandpersonal]

Even if you order too much and don't have any forms, it's still cheaper to just dump the excess than having another order run for concrete.

[@Audio017]

You guys got me into supporting myself really, I am glad things are finally progressing for you! You are an inspiration and you have worked hard, I hope everything works out, and thank you for your content! People like me are happy with anything you upload, for the most part, so don't be shy in your down time, though I suspect there will be little of that for a while now.

[@johngerson7335]

"Precise" _always_ yields a better result. Hat's off to you guys once more, awesome to see the progress you're making!

[@ehole593]

You guys have to be excited about this. I'm excited for you! :)

[@coletteware5052]

So happy to see you guys back! Congratulations on your progress, even though it took a lot of patience and perseverance! You guys are the best!!! Keep smiling!!!

[@Guildbrookfarm]

Thanks for hanging out with us! 👍🏻

[@thewhittierhousewife3898]

To all of you arm chair quarterbacks who want to bash and chide Jeremy for not ordering enough concrete, lay off. Hind sight is always 20/20, isn't it? I'm sure he has learned that it's better to over order than under order concert from a truck. This is Jeremy, after all. He doesn't make the same mistake twice, and he does his very best to avoid them. If he didn't make any mistakes, then he'd be God, m'kay? You did an amazing job, Jeremy and Jamie! Praying for good weather for the basement wall pour.💗

[@Souixno]

👏👏👏💜

[@thewhittierhousewife3898]

@@Souixno 😉

[@southernwanderer7912]

Yey, to Judy for sponsoring this video. Great concrete work. You had some good people there working with you. I'm glad you're such a perfectionist. You have a good start.

[@Quake81270]

You did what we did when we ordered our concrete you forgot to account for the 2 post pier support holes. We were off 3 yards but we had 4 3'x3' holes. Happy you got alot done. In the porta potty place a small insulated cooler to hold bay wipes and toilet paper. Place the wipes in a ziploc bag and the toilet paper in a separate ziploc bag and then place in the small insulated cooler to keep the wipes from freezing in the winter. Plus if you don't store the toilet paper in a ziploc bag the bugs will eat it and the spiders will live inside the tubes.

[@kikifletcher3087]

Wow, the breaks are really off now and you guys are powering through. I've never been so excited and proud of complete strangers in my life. Thanks so much for all the advice and tips, I will defo be using all of your wisdom when it comes time for my own build in the Balkans! Keep on keeping on. xxxx

[@SBulldog2727]

Good update. We'll keep ya'll in our prayers.

[@joeyhardin1288]

THank you Judy! A foundation is th most important.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Looking good guys. It's standard to order a couple of extra yards of concrete because of the top of the footings being wider than the bottom. You are doing great being your own contractor.

[@bennielovejoy1305]

As an ironworker it kills me to see dingers used to tie rebar. Good job.

[@nancysadewater964]

Yep, it is a porta-potty, lol. Jeremy explains everything he does and I appreciate it.

[@Guildbrookfarm]

🤷🏻‍♂️😊

[@Beecozz7]

Awesome!!! PS I came back to add to my comment after reading through the comments, interesting how many pwople were triggered by one of the workers carrying a side arm, I didn't even notice. When people live without liberty they are shocked by it when they see it!!!

[@johnburnitin1027]

Brings back a lot of memories. I built my own house, too. 2000 sq. ft, with a full basement. Just realize that there will be issues , along the way but hang in there and plow through it all! The framing is where the big slow down comes, unless you have some help that can be there for a few days. Be extremely careful with the floor joists. There is where you will have to be dead nuts square. Start square and the rest falls into place. I assume you will be using manufactured joists. Eyeball them and string line, if necessary. Take your time, there and get them right. Good luck!

[@fookutube501]

Thank you Judy from New Zealand

[@swmas02]

Well on your way now the footings are in, keep those videos coming

[@muscadinesandmore2483]

Sure glad that you guts are back. I am signed up to about 15 KZbin channels that I get almost every day, but when I see your in my line up, your's is ALWAYS the first one I open and watch!!!

[@AlanaShuster]

I am so happy for you guys to get going. You have struggled to get to this point and now you are on a roll. Congrats! Im excited for you!

[@BackroadFreedom]

I'm so excited and happy how it's turning out. Progress is coming along really well. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful evening my friends.

[@Guildbrookfarm]

Thanks for hanging out with us! 👍🏻🙏🏻😎

[@dougs5406]

Guildbrook family kickin 🤘 again! So glad to see you all back!

[@mschilepepper10]

Big thumps up for Judy👍🏻 I am so excited watching you built your dream home

[@JanColdwater]

Wow! It is looking great! So happy for you guys! You so deserve this experience and a beautiful home to live in! Awesome job!

[@cannon440]

Congratulations, I'm glad to see you progressing on your home build. Don't forget to keep all fresh concrete damp.

[@Penny-bt4gc]

Wow this is getting exciting. So happy for you guys. ❤️

[@dianecharles881]

Awesome! Glad that everything passed, I never doubted it! Great job !

[@theIAMofME]

I love that GMC truck you showed. My Pawpaw had a GMC that he used for everything. It had a cattle horn in it that he hated when I was 8 years old. I pulled it too much. He would run out of the house WAVING HIS ARMS!!! STOP! I was just a kid!! You just brought on some flashbacks from showing that GMC grill! He raised cattle!!

[@Will7981]

Looking good. It won’t be anytime and you will have the house dried in.👍🏻👍🏻

[@scottslinger1003]

Poured footings look so much better than iron lying in a trench. You are doing a great job! It might be fun to set up the electric guitar in your temporary amphitheater and blast some power chords into the valley.

[@texasnative4803]

It’s good to see the entire family out at the build site - keep up the good work 👍👍

[@I_Am_Michael]

love watching houses being built, piece by piece. I can see two years of great videos coming. awesome.

[@paulbackstrom8370]

I'm generally not one to comment on videos but it is very motivating to see y'all make progress. We live not far north of y'all in Ashe County and are about a week behind you in building a a very similar ICF house. We have the footings dug and are in the rebar process and hope to have the inspection done and concrete poured by the end of the week. We too raise chickens, hogs and other livestock. We sold off all our larger livestock a few months ago when we moved from our small farmstead in Rockingham County to our larger property in Ashe County when I retired but in the spring after we do a ton of fencing we'll get back into it. Keep up the good work. Watching y'all is like reading the instruction manual for a project as it looks like you are on very much the same path as us, just a little ahead of us. If you ever want a trip up higher in the hills come give us a visit.

[@p.l.larose3851]

This was such an exciting video !!! So nice to see all your hard work coming together. We're looking forward to every episode of your house build. Trusting you are not over-working your back Jeremy ?!

[@billlamm4688]

Judy Rocks!

[@Guildbrookfarm]

She definitely does.

[@davidj.mackinney6568]

Glad everything is going well.

[@2200chuck]

You're finally looking at something more than just the dirt lol. Awesome. Can't wait to watch the wall pours. Looking forward to the next episode of The Dirt. You Go Guys!

[@1949chefjojo]

What a genius work! It ‘s looking like a huge Home. We are looking and watching till the End.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Great job, guys, I’m so excited for you! And thank you, Judy!

[@sailme2day]

Great progress team Guildbrook and friends !! Wonderful to see some loving hands keeping the spirits up and footer build out a success. Thank you miss Judy , you rock .

[@seekerbee4494]

I'm excited for you all....your dream is coming to fruition. Thanks for the details you provide. Been enjoying your vlogs

[@charlesburkhart800]

So happy for your progress! Bless the neighbors for helping! And Judy too!

[@purpleheart3000]

It's all happening so fast!! Go go go, make that dream home!

[@nancyfahey7518]

Winter's coming. Not too soon I hope.

[@PawPawMountain]

Looking Great! Can't wait to see the walls up!!

[@zzzzhuhzzzz]

Only thing stuck in a rut now is 14 cubic yards of concrete. Awesome set of videos, guys! So glad to see you back and making some encouraging progress! Extremely happy for you guys!

[@Guildbrookfarm]

I see what you did there. ❤️

[@neilmunro6683]

Good for you...So happy for you guys!..

[@simoneconsciousobserver3105]

Thank you Judy!

[@chelemichele1524]

So awesome I am so excited for you... Have a wonderful tomorrow🌻🌻🌻

[@houstonfirefox]

Lots of work but you'll be darned happy with the result! This is the way Legacy homesteads are built ;)

[@brandytrevino]

I can't believe this is actually happening😭 I'm so happy for y'all! I hope y'all are gonna be pouring walls early! Good vibes and positivity to you Jaime, Jeremy, and the kiddos with and without feathers lol

[@MikeSessler]

I'm excited to watch the progress. I'm planning on building an off-grid ICF house in the next year or two (as soon as we find the right land). It will be great to watch you guys build as I'm in the planning stages. Great work on the footer!

[@jtsdeals]

Awesome progress. Great to work with building inspectors that want to help you succeed.

[@Jim_woods]

Always order a yard or 2 extra and have a location or more useful a use for any actual extra like a shed or pave stones beter to have extra than not enough.

[@gigistitchin]

I remember those days when we built our house in the 70's.!!!

[@mike97525]

proud of you guys doing it yourself

[@brianmcginnis2856]

Looking great! I understand your frustration with contractors not returning calls.....I , too, live in the Appalachian foothills and trying to get any kind of construction work done here is next to impossible. Good luck and keep looking forward!!

[@-loki-7727]

I built one of these five years ago. You really have to plan ahead, like way ahead, because cutting into concrete with rebar is a pain. I didn't see anything for a basement drain, septic, well or radon. Conduit in the concrete works well for electrical but plan ahead. Plan the screw strips for wall studs and kitchen cabinets. These houses are awesome. Reach out if you want any help!

[@annetteandhercrafts]

I knew you passed inspection and still my heart raced during those few seconds of inspection in the video. 😅

[@Guildbrookfarm]

😳😊

[@joecnelson77yes]

This is so awesome. It's really coming together!

[@karenmerhalski9406]

Soooo happy for you guys! Your house is finally getting started! You must be ecstatic!

[@stormmountain2521]

So glad you are backed on Track. We have missed you folks 😊

[@annabodhi38]

This is so exciting! Thank you Judy, you are so awesome!! It was great to see the girls at the site. You are all working so hard, just watching pooped me out, lol. I really appreciate the extra time you are taking to share everything with us. It really is extra work editing and uploading, so thank you for that. ❤️

[@tarapaul8212]

You guys are doing a really nice job!

[@nuduo9255]

Great, I’m glad you guys went with ICF....thank God.

[@Bex-rg8pj]

So excited for you ❤️

[@ScottishNSRailFan]

ICF is a fantastic product. I have a three storey house in Palm Beach County, FL, using the product. With having the roof, using the same product, and hurricane proof windows, we have no qualms, when the hurricanes appear.

[@HomeShowTV]

Must have unknowingly dug into a stink bug nest when digging the foundations. I worked at a casino once when they excavated for a parking garage adjacent to the casino. The excavator broke through into a ball of stink bugs 15 feet in diameter. They went everywhere. There were bugs crawling up folks legs at the dice table and dealers jumping up and down as they crawled up their britches lol. It was like something from a B-movie sci-fi horror film lol.

[@Guildbrookfarm]

😂

[@augustreil]

Must have been in Ct, a lot of stink bugs here, bug and human !

[@theresashook7882]

I love to watch you all bring your dreams to life congratulations

[@Guildbrookfarm]

❤️❤️❤️

[@FirstSuiGeneris]

_I really looked at your rebar work nice job. You’re going to learn a lot of stuff with this build. Here the upside to it all, you’ll know where to go right away when things need repaired. One of the most important tool to have is a string Bob even it just a heavy nut at the end. The a water level with a clear hose, it’s on the cheap, and it’s never wrong._

[@Guildbrookfarm]

Well... Yep.

[@mimib6955]

Thrilled to see progress for you guys! And great to see your beautiful young ladies. I know like yourself, I research everything before starting things. Just wanted to share my story. My parents went with the ICF for the basement of their addition. The last cement truck to deliver was way longer then expected behind the previous. Bottom line, a few years later, the basement started leaking. contractor who came in to assess the issue said whoever was doing the work did not mix the new concrete with the previous. Could even see it, loads were slightly different colors. (Don't know the proper term) Sort of like getting the air bubbles out of a canning jar. This caused the new concrete to layer on the previous causing a void between the two, over time created a leak. This was years ago but wanted to share. Would hate to see you have that issue.

[@n.watson8497]

Woo Hoo! I'm excited for you!

[@MrAbro42]

Enjoy your videos very much. Thanks to you guys and Judy

[@rockyroadranch72]

So happy to see you building! God bless.

[@marklownox]

Nice to see your home coming along. I am very interested in seeing how the icf works for you.

[@buddyduncan2095]

Nice to see the foundation poured I know the both of you are glad its stressful I have been waiting for 8 months on a 12 week job to get done on my house and it's still hasn't got started

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

YESSSS! We’re so happy for you! Not that we had any doubts that you’d pass the inspection! Check that off the list!

[@KoalityofLife]

Glad it turned out ok, Had me worried when you came up short on concrete. Keep plugging away on the house and keep posting. It's nice to see someone else working on a house besides me. :)

[@raynall3593]

getting ready to do the exact same thing for my daughter. Looking great.

[@augustreil]

@@colstace2560, What would you recommend. Just curious ? Thanks.

[@paulc1352]

Great job guys...love your videos.

[@nellytalford7119]

I'm very excited for you all ..great job!..God bless!!

[@WendyK656]

Yay Great Job, nice to see everything is working out for y'all.

[@PatricesProjects]

So much work! Looks good. Looking forward to watching you put the legos up and fill them.

[@ronprince1478]

Job well done. High praise for a bloke like me.

[@pattihayden8100]

You have an absolutely beautiful piece of property!! Can’t wait to see more videos 🤗

[@joanwalters4741]

How very kind to this ❤️ for the family! We will try in our small way to “Play it Forward “ 🌟

[@poodledaddles1091]

So happy for your house project....looks like it's gonna be pretty big!