Building my ICF house part 9 : Second floor concrete joist

In this video, we form and pour the second floor concrete joist system with radiant heat

Music in this video by Ryan Farish:
1:00:51 - Ryan Farish - Warmth of the sun
1:35:53 - Ryan Farish - Hearts on fire

Ryan's Music can be found here:

[qiyuef]

All America houses should be build like this. Concrete all the way no wood. Then no worry about hail, termites, water damage etc.

[ronvera]

Good to see some one over build like I did. I built my own 3, 000 square ft two story house. I had 31 bell bottom piers drilled for me. Everything else we did ourselves. I had to dig out about 500 feet of trenches for the 5 concretes beams in both directions with six #5 rebars in each beam. The architect said we could dig out the dirt of from under our slab and it would stand up like a freeway overpass on columns. We poured the slab, did all the plumbing, framing, dry wall, roofing ( red Spanish clay tile 21, 000 lbs worth), cabinets, stucco. We even made our own trim wood and cabinets.

[DelButch]

Jess this is a fascinating series of man’s need to build a home using all his skill and learning new skill, the new vehicles and tools help but just the hard graft and focus required is daunting for most people but not you and your crew evidently

[markwood]

nice pump truck! you guys did great job keeping up w capacity of conc. being pumped. the slump looked perfect, nice vibration work & the guy placing the discharge did amazing guessing amounts didn't have a shovel too much or little. cant say enough ..i was P/M/field supervisor my entire adult life ran more multi mil jobs than can remember! seen a lot! extremely impressed cant say enough!!! more houses / bomb shelters should be built this way! your family will be keep truckin Jesse

[jeepindave]

It's awesome to see Jesse buy old machines and fix them. Then they help fix other machines. Then finally they are building his family a new home.

[johnbradbury]

Thank you Jesse for the info you give and why.. Struth the amount of work you have done to get this far is a credit to you and your team of helpers. not forgetting the kids. Looking forward to part 10.

[willemvanschaik]

Watching you putting all those orange caps on the rebar ends. I was in 1977 an apprentice at a building site in downtown Amsterdam (which was a lot of fun) when one of the trades fell (with his thigh) into one of those rebar stakes. He was in the hospital for a week and "out of business" for probably a month. Nice guy, in the end all right. But he would have been saved by those orange plastic caps !!

[robertjames]

Hi Jesse I have to say your work ethic is fabulous no corners cut proper job start to finish admire you and your guys👍

[seanswader]

Congratulations, Jesse. First, being such a great father, your sons love their daddy. I love how you include them in the building of their house. Now, I have never seen anyone so thought out in building a home I would definitely hire you to create a home for me you are a pretty incredible man all the way around.

[Boy]

What skilful family. You will reap the benefits of all your hard work in the end. You can imagine how it’s going to look all landscaped sitting on the balcony on a summers night having a cold drink. Look forward to the next one.

[AW-Services]

Wow Jesse, what an update and some incredible team work & engineering. No blow outs no accidents and getting closer to that completion mark. The telehandler is starting to pay it's keep

[daddybob]

The magnetised drill is an amazing invention Jesse. Who would have thought this would have been invented. Good to see you allowing your boy to participate in your work, well done Jesse. Bob n Lina NZ.

[markbrown]

That pour went very smooth, shoutout to your guys, they make a great team.
These build videos where you explain things are great to watch.
Yes great sunsets you got there.

[suzylarry]

I would think you had a bit of a cheer 1) after the braces com off and (2) when you finished the second floor joists . People that have not done this kind of work ( grounded people) don't understand the inner emotion of that. Good to see this phase done.

[michaelespinoza]

There are not enough informative videos on YouTube about ICF buildings. Great content and very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing.

[BrianNavalinsky]

My father used a similar structure and monolithic pour back in the 1950's for the roof on his boathouse on Lake Erie. When he finally got tired of it he asked me to get rid of it. I drove a 955 out onto it assuming I would collapse it... Nope. I had to nibble at it from inside and it took over a day of brutalizing the Cat to demolish enough of it to bury the evidence. I was so happy to use all concrete construction in South Florida.

[dpeagles]

I've been watching this whole series build.

All homes should be built like this.

[greenwolf]

I always ♥ your videos on the house build. Barring any MAJOR calamity, your house should still be standing 500-1000 years from now.

[KarenL-qtdy]

Wow, there was sure a lot happening in this video! So much progress on your home was made! Before you know it, you'll be moving in. I don't know when you got the goats, but they are absolutely adorable!! I'll bet your boys have a lot of fun with them.

[michaelb.]

Amazing job Jesse and what an amazing home you are building.