I'm planning to built my own ICF pool next summer. I'm looking for advise from people in a nordic climate like Canada, Ontario or Quebec.
ICF Isolated Concrete Form as a pool in Canada !
- Thread starter DanielPP
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 62,698
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Any chance you can explain what 'ICF' stands for to us from warm country?
My bad -- you put it in the title this time!!!!
What about what it is? Never heard of it before ==
My bad -- you put it in the title this time!!!!
What about what it is? Never heard of it before ==
I built my own plunge pool last summer. I went to the local concrete supply house for some concrete stain for the patio... next thing you know I was ordering Fox Block ICF. I still have a lot to finish up this season. I'm no expert, I just worked it one step at a time with a lot of advice from the owner at the concrete supply shop.
A few specs.... Fox block ICF. 8" thick walls. 12" floor. All concrete was 4500 psi with helix micro rebar and xypex concrete waterproofing mixed in at the truck. Cold joint between the floor and walls with concrete butyl tape in the joint. Sider-Crete pool plaster with fiberglass mesh underlayment. 2" Blue stone coping.
I need to tile the raised outside and start the landscaping when the snow melts.
Thane
A few specs.... Fox block ICF. 8" thick walls. 12" floor. All concrete was 4500 psi with helix micro rebar and xypex concrete waterproofing mixed in at the truck. Cold joint between the floor and walls with concrete butyl tape in the joint. Sider-Crete pool plaster with fiberglass mesh underlayment. 2" Blue stone coping.
I need to tile the raised outside and start the landscaping when the snow melts.
Thane
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Wow This is looking good ! I'm impressed, so you tilled the interior ? Over the Sider-Crete pool plaster with fiberglass mesh underlayment ?
What's the big white pipe a the far end ?
What's the big white pipe a the far end ?
mknauss, it's a concrete pool but isolated, keep water warmer... saving energy and I beleive it's easer to build as DIY project. Here in my own region (Gatineau,Quebec,Canada) we using Nudura product. I did a one day training with Nudura cie. The ICF is made to build house, garage or any kind of building ... It's like lego blocks and you fill them with concrete ....
Tile is over the underlayment only. Plaster butts up to the tile built up so it is flush with the tile.
The 8" PVC pipe goes down into the crushed rock under the floor. I drilled some holes from top to bottom. I also laid corrugated drain pipe around the perimeter. If I ever have any ground water issues I can drop a pump down the pipe. I am going to cut the pipe flush with the concrete pad and cover it with a skimmer lid. So far it has been bone dry in the bottom.
Thane
The 8" PVC pipe goes down into the crushed rock under the floor. I drilled some holes from top to bottom. I also laid corrugated drain pipe around the perimeter. If I ever have any ground water issues I can drop a pump down the pipe. I am going to cut the pipe flush with the concrete pad and cover it with a skimmer lid. So far it has been bone dry in the bottom.
Thane
Ok, tile looks bigger on that picture , and where is the raised outside on the picture ? Sorry but I will asked a lot of questions ... Thank you Thane.
The raised outside tile is going on the black part of the photo with the coping. The black is ICF roll-on waterproofing that goes all the way to the bottom. It protects and seals the ICF foam from ground water and the rock backfill. I covered this with duroc concrete baker board and will tile between the coping stones and the concrete pad with the 2" glass tiles.
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Ok, I see, on the last picture your coping is not there and you zoomed the corner of the pool.
Thane63, you plastered it with whitch product ? Did you build a footing under your wall ? Thank ypu
Icf is creeping in to the mainstream. A gentleman from South Carolina, is penetrating distribution networks with his icf package.. these will certainly
become commonplace.
become commonplace.
I used the Sider-crete ICF base and plaster. They say you can roll it on but, I found out that toiling it on worked best for me. It was probably the most difficult part of my build. If I was to do it again I would leave the quartz out of it.
I did not lay footings under my walls. I opted to go with a cold joint between the floor and the walls. #5 rebar in the 12" thick floor bends up 90° into the walls. I layed a rope of concrete butyl tape in the center of the wall before the walls got poured. It survived last years freeze cycle with out any cracks in the plaster.
I did not lay footings under my walls. I opted to go with a cold joint between the floor and the walls. #5 rebar in the 12" thick floor bends up 90° into the walls. I layed a rope of concrete butyl tape in the center of the wall before the walls got poured. It survived last years freeze cycle with out any cracks in the plaster.
We have a bunch of foundations around me builtcthis way. Same designer in the area did all the houses. It’s like his calling card. Lol. I call them Lego foundations. They r pretty cool though. What I don’t get is what is the difference between them and a poured 12 inch foundation which is so common where I live vs concrete block now.
