Good morning my name is Jim Dearing a distributor for Bill Block in the Southern California region well we're going to go over this morning is we're at the world of concrete and we've had a lot of questions presented to us why is Bill block the block of choice why is it more user friendly than the other blocks that are out there and what is some industry standards that I use on a daily basis with some of the California tile type of production framing and taking that background that I have in production framing actually bringing forth more of a simplified way of commonality as far as working with the corners and the standards and working with your subs and making the block come together so it's not just you the Installer or the owner the builders just taking care of what we need to take care of as far as ICF but also as far as the subs that become behind us mainly our drywall or stucco siding and to explain how best this works with any case scenario any slab any dimension in any amount of corners and how with the 1-inch module that we have here with bill block what we're capable of doing with the 1-inch module as far as California type framing production all long walls get the plates going long too long in all the short walls we cut them short to work them within the walls so I have developed a system in the ICF to do the exact same thing so we have long corners we have short corners so you want to come in down to a block and look at the long corner in the short corner all ICF has a short corner and a long corner and using that short corner a long corner into a common system a plan so that every job you go on and every installer that we teach is going to come in and is going to do an exact same way he's going to already know how we're working so when we're teaching installers whether we have multiple jobs or one very big job everybody knows the plan so we're going to implement the plan everything decently in order we're going to develop a plan so all the long corners they're going to face each other on the long walls all the short corners they're going to face each other on the short corners okay so as we have the mock-up setup here we got it we're going to call this our long wall this long corners to our facing our right this long corner is also facing our left we're using our eight-inch core to do this mock-up wall to do this demonstration if I had a best-case scenario everything landed perfectly six inches on center now the corner stagger you don't pound on them beat on them with your fists because you'll Bend the nubs I'm going to come over here and set again the corner in the opposite direction pull in my next 4-foot standard now what I do most of the time teach we put the Block in this end first and we lay it back towards the other block it seems a little backwards but it actually fits best it goes in best locks in best okay so this was best case scenario well then take the next block and just lay it up against the existing hole draw my line where the cut needs to be made now on the bill block we have a tape measure already on the block this ends up getting cut on 42 inches or at 42 inches I will then roll over the block I will do again the line so you can actually see where your cuts at I'll actually cut my block here on the on the block itself use a typical 10 inch pruning saw I like the longer one they have shorter ones this causes the least amount of trash the teeth are actually cut to the inside so there are very sharp but they don't feather out so they're not creating a lot more foam when you're making your cut okay so it's the least amount of trash you can cut when you're cutting the ICF I like the 10-inch saw because you get good long strokes give you a chance to make a very very clean cut okay very square very straight I'm going to take this block and fit into this this opening and bring this together now this is your best case scenario and believe it or not it happens it does happen often notice that all your webs are lining up okay it happened that I did this on purpose I put an 18 inch piece on the bottom here and then took a 48 piece 48 inch piece cut six inches off to bring in my special I brought my special again from my right to my left within the last four foot for your drywall er typically drywall er and most subs working right to left and by working right to left they're also going to bring their material down they're going to have their last bit of cuts here and the last four foot a wall if there was a window or a door you would make this special over a window and under a window or over a door because you want the least amount of cuts when you're actually laying out your ICF okay now I'm going to go with the not so perfect layout I've already cut the block but I'm going to fit him in and show you what I did as we went about a layout that doesn't work exactly six inches on center so you can end up with one 6 inch piece now one of the things about 6 inch pieces after you get a couple rows up you've established your layout because rows 1 3 5 & 7 are the same and rows 2 4 6 & 8 are the same I can take some 6-inch pieces and put them next to each other to put your waste right in the wall okay now you don't want to put a six-inch piece to point the two seams line straight up you don't want to do that you'll make sure they're not on the seams and then you would come here actually I'm gonna move this over to show you here's a six-inch piece here's a six-inch piece then you take a 12 inch piece and go over your seam and then you can keep going with six inch pieces again or 18 inch piece or 24 inch piece you don't want to do this on a row that you're going to have your last row because you want another row full row to go right over these six inch pieces you want the seams be locked back in again but they don't they don't once the next row is on I'm gonna grab a piece and show you once the next role is on that'll hold during concrete so you definitely don't let the seams line up when you're putting in your six inch pieces and make sure that they have a piece that's going to bridge that seemed as if it was a full piece my recommendation on your six inch pieces or your twelve inch pieces is in row 4 or row 5 just before your last row if you're only doing 6 rows which is 8 feet so now we're doing the not so perfect case scenario here's my measurement off my first row here's the piece that I have left ok now what I've already done I've already positioned the ends because let's say I'm thinking we're going to do stucco I've already kicked the corners out just a hair because when I just a minute ago this was slightly in it's not on a module ok so what I'm going to do is I'm going to kick the two corners out hang them about an eighth of an inch off your slab which is no big deal for your weep screed it'll work just fine so now I'm going to mark again where we're going to cut notice I don't have my tape measure out it's been on my belt ever since we started okay so you can do this and do your layout without ever pulling your tape measure out okay so you can measure if you want but you don't need to again the numbers are on the face of the block this is at 16 inches I'm going to bring this up we're going to cut at 16 inches okay so I'm going to fit this piece in okay again I brought my cut out of the corner pretty big standard we have we do not cut the corners unless you have a door or a window within the corners your corners are that your your commodity you don't want to cut the corners you don't want to be shorter corners you can cut it straight you can put them together glue them together add more you're okay but if you're short on corners you want to Vegas rules of thumb you want to do is or don't is don't cut your corner okay so I'm going to bring in the next piece I've already cut these we did a demonstration yesterday morning now I want to show you something my last web right here that's going to be my last full web you're going to watch it line up here's also my other last web coming right to left and left to right so when you have a special with it's over a door under a under window and over a door here again here's my last common web here coming in from that outside corner this way here's my last common web coming in from this out corner this way these two guys are staggering ignore them your drywall is going to ignore him he's going to go for the one that's common going straight up he's going to go for this one going straight up these two it doesn't matter now I'm going to show you with my tape and the modules one two three four five six I have six modules tying this wall together that's six inches okay that's pretty standard notice I cut this way on this one and this way on that one to get an overlap your drywall is going to ignore it you're stuck go guys going to ignore it because they're going to both come from this this outside to the inside corner again with no openings in your wall you'll do this in your last four foot because that's where they're going to cut their drywall it's pretty standard they're pulling everything right to left obviously we just have a little mock-up wall here but in a house condition or a commercial condition the longer the wall the more speed they're going to get going right to left again you want to save your drywall and save your subs and invite them into the into the scenario as far as working with insulated concrete forms in bill block bill block has a one inch module because of that one inch module when you're splitting the slab outside outside you're splitting the slab that's half of what you're splitting it now that's what you're going to have hanging over or hanging in if you have stucco you'll let that hang out this is worst case scenario remember you're splitting it from end to end taking half the module and splitting it again if it's going to be siding you're going to bring it in and let it have the lip of the concrete stick out a little bit you'll kick off your sodding off your first roll as you normally would instead of using a piece of lattice that's the benefit of having the 1-inch module and having the egg crate and as small as these are some people so what if concrete gets in there you just put duct tape on it between your pores but having this surface is a benefit for pouring and having that six inch lap typically minimum six inch lap as far as what you're going to have holding with the nubs coming off the top of your ICF now the fill block ICF is fully reversible the corners are fully reversible the standards are fully reversible flip it either which way you want it's got a tape measure on it top and bottom it has horizontal lines perforated every four inches and it has a solid line in the middle that allows you to cut this block and flip this block for your top course or you would cut a special row on your bottom course to figure out what your joists are going to be if you're going to do more than more than one floor Multi floor and especially if you're going to do an insulated concrete deck like build deck did some of the attributes as far as our block we have an inch and a half wide web on a regular block our labs are six inches on center versus eight that was a small change for me going from a eight inch on center block in the past and found that on my four days now are very comfortable and notice we finish these walls there was no plywood on it okay ready for pour these rebar obviously but as far as the block is concerned we're ready for concrete no plywood needed so we want to thank you this morning for taking the time to review this and look at some industry standards that we've developed and we look forward to being with you and for you with us on your next project.
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