Spider Tie Concrete Roof

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.

Don t let natural disasters keep you from feeling safe in your own home. Spider tie insulated walls and concrete roof part 1 and 2 duration. These homes cost less to build than icf homes yet offer all the advantages and more. With the spider tie system you can form any shape wall in a fraction of the time that s required with all other systems.

Spider tie is announcing it s latest development. This is a system primarily designed to streamline building formwork and minimize the amount of labor required which it delivers. Icfs are somewhat common and have a lot of advantages such as affordability energy efficiency low rate of noise transmission etc. This new approach is called i f s forming internal form supports.

The entire structure is made of cellular concrete walls eaves and roof. 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. 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. This system provides a temporary frame work that you attach your plywood using screws to hold it in place until the concrete has cured.

Spider tie developed a very low tech way to do this. Homes built with the spider tie concrete forming system and cellular concrete from tag crete. Dean humpherys 328 096 views. Spider tie is a variation of icf insulating concrete form.

The spider ties function like 2 6 or 2 8 studs in the wall providing a surface to attach the plywood to. Making this home tornado hurricane and wild land fire resistant. Since spider ties are webbed the concrete flows through them providing a solid monolithic concrete wall. His system uses regular wooden trusses engineered to carry the load of the concrete.