Our customer in Idaho using custom curved forms has finished their prep and poured their slab.
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WarmFörm Tip: Supporting a door sill at the slab edge
A common question we receive: how do you support a door sill on top of the foam edge of the perimeter elements?
WarmForm Installation Tips
When we visit a WarmForm installation site we often share techniques and installation experience with the installer to try to get them off on a strong start with the work.
WarmForm first time – what’s that like?
As mentioned in the previous post the builder for the New Lebanon, NY project was building with WarmForm for the first time. Just as most builders in this region and North, they are accustomed to building foundations four feet and deeper to reach below frost. In situations like this the ease of a WarmForm installation […]
WarmForm does the INSTALL!
Every once in a while us WarmForm people like to get out to see a customer installation. It helps us to see how customers are managing since the majority right now are installing WarmForm for the first time. We like to see what is coming easily to the customer, as well as what needs some […]
Beautiful cabin and freestanding garage on WarmForm
Cabin recently completed in Pownal, Maine. Photo by C Heidi Kirn Photography. More photos of the WarmForm set-up here.
WarmForm PH8 profile build on Nantucket
We are happy to share some WarmForm install photos from Civic Carpentry in Nantucket who is installing a PH8 based slab right now.
Good Press for WarmForm project in Ann Arbor
This WarmForm installation from 2019 has gotten some good press on design sites around the internet since the house was completed. See one at the Dezeen site.
A year ago – WarmForm does DOE’s IMPEL+
A year ago your fearless WarmForm leaders, Scott Hedges and myself, were invited to participate in a Workshop organized by the Department of Energy’s Berkley National Laboratory. This workshop was all about taking innovators, who conventionally are not accustomed to explaining the significance of their work, and train them to explain it to others succinctly. […]
Build a Pretty Good House with WarmFörm
A great video by the BS (Building Science) and Beer youtube channel about building an improved energy performance house – not going all the way for the stringent Passive House standard, but rather what they describe as a “pretty good house”. The host Mike Maines describes the basics of this approach to building and architect […]