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News
$2500 Gift of Green Avialble on all Maine Source Home building packages for fisrt time home buyers through Maine State Housing.
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ICF Foundations |
| Maine Source is very excited to present ICF Foundations as part of our modular home packages. |
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What is ICF: ICF stands for Insulated Concrete Form.
Instead of using wood forms to mold the concrete foundation for your home, we use ARXX X-web form. This unique product consists of a reinforced concrete core sandwiched between two layers of expanded polystyrene foam insulation.
This provides the homeowner with not only a signficant savings in your overall energy costs, but also a reduction in drafts and humidity problems,
as well as providing a solid-to-solid attachment for any finishing material (like drywall, siding or brick ties).
What's more, the insulation is fire resistant, giving you one more layer of protection.
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| Estimated Cost Savings: |
| Estimates based on a 28' x 48' Ranch style home with an average energy usage of $2,683 per year (with no foundation insulation and usage of 41.5 kBtu/hr). |
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| R22 ICF – 30%, $1889, design load to 24.8kBtu/hr |
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| Costs and Benefits: |
- On average the addition of the ARXX ICF foundation installed with your modular package from Maine Source Homes costs just an additional $4,000.
- Based on the above estimates the addition of the ICF foundation will pay for itself in energy savings in about 5 years.
- Utilizing an ICF foundation is an easy way to do your part for helping reduce America's dependence on foreign fuels and greenhouse gas emmissions which helps everyone.
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