Durisol Nexcem Custom Home

Breaking ground

Installing footings formwork

Compacting

Delta MS dimple membrane for basement floor

Levelling concrete basement floor

Detail of basement floor installation

Setting the first courses of Nexcem ICF blocks

Setting Nexcem ICF blocks with masonry crane

First are rows are up

Overview

Inside building

Setting up interior Nexcem ICF walls

Strip foundations visible in basement

Basement exterior walls complete

Main flood Nexcem ICF walls

Interior wall built with Unipor clay bricks from Germany.

Installing recycled railroad rail beam ceiling

Inside basement

South side

Wood windows by Gradwohl

Plastering the exterior wall below ground.

Plastering and installing Delta MS dimple membrane.

Garage floor with dimple membrane

Installing formwork for vaulted ceiling

Formwork for vaulted ceiling

View from top onto vaulted ceiling formwork.

Concrete core and insulation

Pouring concrete

Boom pump placing concrete

Nexcem ICF block with concrete core and insulation

SW side

NE side with garage

Setting up masonry chimney

Setting up roof structure

Entrance with inscription

Setting up the roof structure

Douglas fir roof beams

West side

Top view

Roof structure completed

Douglas fir roof decking

Cutting decking boards to length

East view

Decking almost complete

View of roof structure and decking

Living room

Decking complete

Proclima Intesana vapour retarder membrane installed.

Installing Roxul insulation

Roof insulation

Installing plywood underlay over roof ventilation space.

Precise spacing of roof structure

Installing 86ft long standing seam metal roofing panels.

Standing seam metal
roofing

Installing the windows.

Windows installed

Exterior deck installation

Exterior deck suspended from roof structure.

Framing for exterior wall insulation.

Living room

Framing for exterior wall insulation.

Installation of Roxul R22 exterior insulation

Installation of exterior insulation

Exterior insulation under the large deck

Exterior wall insulation on east side.

Exterior wall insulation with wood fibre board.

Larch siding installation underway

Exterior with stucco finish on lower level

Custom home just South of Calgary, Alberta built with Nexcem ICF forms and featuring a Douglas Fir timberframe roof construction. To increase the R-Value of the Nexcem ICF walls on this over 5,000 sqft large residence with attached shop / garage, we added insulation to the outside of the exterior walls. Photos of the building process can be found below.

Durisol / Nexcem Custom Home

Exterior walls: 14" Durisol (now branded Nexcem) ICF with an R-Value of R22. Above grade the Durisol walls will be insulated with an additonal layer of Roxul R22 insulation, finished off with Gutex Multiplex woodfibre boards. Siding will be ventilated solid wood, made from Larch sourced from a small community forest in the Central Kootenays. The total R-Value for the exterior walls will be R45 with substantial thermal mass on the interior side of the walls.

Interior walls: 8" Durisol / Nexcem ICF forms and 4.5" clay bricks.

Floor between basement and main floor: Suspended concrete slab with vaulted ceiling, exclusively built by Tennengau Timberworks. Built with used railroad rails. This construction is incredibly strong and will easily support your 9ft concert grand piano and essentially turn the basement into a tornado shelter!

Roof: Heavy-timber construction made from BC-sourced, double 8x8" Douglas Fir timbers with 2" thick Douglas Fir paneling as the visible ceiling. ProClima Intesana vapour reatrder membrane, R60 Roxul Comfortbatt insulation, 35mm Gutex Multiplex wood fibre panels, ventilation layer, finished off with standing seam metal roofing over plywood with a roof liner.

Windows and exterior doors: Custom-made solid wood windows and doors by Gradwohl in Austria. The windows are triple glazed with an insulation U-value of 0.7 W/m²K.