Construction start to finish of a modern ICF mountain cabin.
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- This video documents the one-year journey to complete the construction of a modern mountain cabin. As an owner-build, the goal was to create something high-end, unique, maintenance free, and modern, using only the best materials.
To discover more of what's unique about the cabin you can find us on Instagram:
@zenplicitycabin
Also, watch highlight video here: • Zenplicity Cabin
Want to stay here? Find our listings here:
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Construction materials:
Exterior ICF (insulating concrete forms) walls (12 inches thick)
Black 16"inch wide, 26 gauge, standing seam metal roofing and front wall.
trex decking
Feeney cable rails
Stained concrete slab with variegation and mottling
Stem wall foundation/gravel backfill
Fiber cement siding
Zip wall system
Low E double paned windows
Interior wood frame
Special features:
Eco-Luxe
Architect Designed (Modern exterior, minimalist interior)
Diakin 18,000 Btu 17-seer ducted mini
split heat pump with 8 kw heat
strips. Unit is ducted so there are no hanging wall units.
Propane powered Navian tankless water heater (NPE-210A2) with a recirculating pump (Instant hot water)
Passive solar design
Smart home technology
Modern black stainless steel appliances
Trimless recessed lights
Floating vanities
Built-in Electric Fireplace
Modern Tile
Triple Bunk
For questions, you can contact me at johnwolson79@gmail.com
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I am a General Contractor..... I love that you applied so many newer material applications like Zip Wall and Roof systems, ICF, Mini Split AC, etc...I did not see Solar or rain collection from the roof, but either way, really nice build. Maybe move the trash can and build an enclosure so it's not the first thing you see when pulling up the driveway. congratulations on a job that was exceptionally well done! Great details.
Thank you very much!
Btw…there will be solar added. This will likely be a project next year
That’s a nice robust build and I hope you and your family enjoy it for generations to come! Can’t wait for the cost breakdown video. I bought land on a slope in VT and am planning on building something similar.
Cheers!
I'm a now retired residential and light commercial builder with 30+ years of custom construction experience. That said, I am very impressed with your building of this mountain cabin for you and the family. Great Job!! Like others, I will be eager to see your cost breakdown. Hopefully you'll have multiple categories and break out labor and materials in those categories. It is obvious that you spared no expense in doing everything in a high-class manner and succeeded in an outstanding finished product.
I love to see no expense spared.
What a joy this cabin will be for the family.
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@@beefquiche Sparing money is stupid, why else are they needed?
for sure costed over $800k
Nice build and great commentary. The only thing lacking IMO would be radiant heating in the slab floor.
Makes sense especially since he already installed a recirculating h20 pump for the hot water tankless.
Agreed, have it heated from a boiler and or fireplace
YES INDEED! and i wouldnt have minded exposed ductwork, which i find imho very beautiful.
..thin i would have used wood board & batten siding to soften up the feel of the entry
The cabin looks great and solid. It will last a long time! The outside terrace in the back is amazing.
Yes, we love the terrace.
i am wondering if the floor will shift and sink in the middle. This gravel will settle, so what will happen to the floor?
Wow, good job, looks like a great space!
Thank you for sharing this John.
Them boys did some damn good looking concrete work! That's a hard thing to find these days
Agreed. The concrete work was done very well!
Question- was all that the gravel backfill necessary? It looks great but that was a lot of material…
ok, going through more of the video I see what you did there. Another slab on top… nice! I
Spent parts of the last 4 days to watch your full build here--John, amazing job buddy. Beautiful area, incredible modern design, and just a really well thought out home. The deck is my favorite part by far, but the fire pit, the hot tub, and all the other little touches really take this place from being solid and serviceable, to extraordinary. Really well done man.
p.s. spent a few years living in Western N.C. and will hopefully own a piece of dirt out that way again sometime soon.
Thanks for the compliments.
@@johnwolson Absolutely man. Did you keep loose track of costs? So curious to know what each phase came in at (I could PM you too if you prefer not to post publicly). Anyway, really inspiring.
That was so interesting i actually sat through the entire thing. I sometimes think I may have chosen the wrong career as a software developer because i love building things and working with my hands. This was very impressive. Beautiful build. I love Northern GA so that was a plus. That foundation is SOLID
Me too. :)
I've done both programming and building and it really is surprising how similar they are. You work with your hands for both, but it's mostly decision making. The result is a tangable thing that's hopefully very useful and valued by people.
Very interesting to watch your house build. We just finished almost same build but ours is a 2 storey 8 inch ICF in a small town in Canada. Thank you for sharing.
Cool place John, thanks for sharing. I appreciate how you “overbuilt” the place, should be solid building for a long time. Good luck!
Thanks 👍
I like most everything you did with the exception of your water take away and lack of rear overhang. It's my personal bias as a carpenter that all houses deserve roofs with a perimeter overhang more so in harsh climates as it provides so much in extending life of structure. No idea what state or elevation this may be located at but I've been seasoned at 36" annual rainfall and or 2 foot snow loads. Between the roof shedding and the flat drive, seepage at the sill plate just seems to be a matter of time or season. Contemporary style is pretty down on gutters but got to give them their due for water take away. Having a 18in rear overhang could have provided much function and some cool under soffit down lighting to prevent light pollution. Great color/material selections!
You should have watched the whole thing! They did plan an over hang. On the South side it looks to be 2 or 3 feet out, and a bit shorter on the East side.
@@SternDrive there are sides of the building with no overhang (thats what i think hes pointing out)
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This. 1800 sqft of rain will run down the back wall of the cabin and splash onto the concrete. I can't tell how the driveway slopes at that point, but this sees like a pretty good way to put your sill plate under water in a heavy rain.
@@travisshrey6720 Being ICF, is there still a sill plate? Not sure how they attached the siding to the ICF though. Still can't be good. I was expecting a drain along the driveway right next to the house to take all the water away.
Fantastic! Extend that deck out another 12'. Perfect outdoor space.
Even another 2 feet of width would make a huge difference.
I love the cabin, Thanks for shaing all of the details of your build! I'd also love to hear a recap of what it cost to build.
That was the perfect opportunity to double the sq footage and add a walkout basement....
That's what I thought, why not a future basement??
Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Just curious as to the decision to go with a slab foundation vs. a crawlspace. I assume this had something to do with the the overall ICF design and energy efficiency but wanted to get your feedback on that. Obviously you had to bring in a ton of material to backfill the foundation so I was curious as to the tradeoffs. Thanks.
Beautiful sturdy construction…well done, love it!
The best construction 🚧🏗️ video by far. I absolutely loved it. The commentary is very audible and every single step of the construction have been covered. Well done.👌🏿🤜🏿
Love the design! Love the result!!
Thank you! 😊
slate rock entry would be killer!
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I LOVE the yellow entrance! And I love the build. One of the best I’ve seen
Absolutely stunning journey! It's incredible to witness the dedication and craftsmanship that went into creating this modern mountain cabin. Consider looking into the Buildovate CRM for streamlining the management of construction projects similar to these!
Thanks I do love the way the building looks.
That contractor is top-tier 👌
Hello John , really a beautiful project , amazing house and place !! The nature around is fantastic...! Good luck for you and congratulatios from Brazil ! Sorry for my bad english , i'm still learning , thank you .
Yellow entrance is just fantastic.
I just did cable railings and they are so good. Barely obstruct view, but don’t need cleaning (or cost) like glass.
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The bracings for the outerwall pathway are incredible... Thats so fucking smart!
What a well made video your house is well built and in a beautiful location and i hope you and your family enjoy your time spent there All best wishes from ENGLAND UK
Currently building a similar shaped cabin on a very similar type of lot in the N GA mountains, except we will have a daylight basement. This cabin is built like a tank!
All that then the view of the huge u-store-it complex below. Wonderful planning. Must have purchased this lot when the trees were full of leaves. Now if you could move this to a really nice lot with a really nice view that would be 'nice'.
Awesome build and video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Dude holding those wooden markers while homie hits them with a sledge hammer has got a lot of confidence in the guy!
Man, if this is your CABIN I really wonder what your home looks like?! Amazing project!
Great build project. Congratulations.
I’m glad I stuck till the end of the video,that house is magnificent & the finishing especially the colors you chose are just great.Great job John,really inspiring
wow..i never knew black and yellow looked awesome😀
I'm having a blast looking at your construction..!!! (Gracias)
Very nice video. The cabin is fabulous and I like the modern style of it. Well done.
I would like to add some ideas: the balcony could be extended, each room could have skylight, there would be a cellar in the basement and a playroom ...
Thanks for the tips!
It just occurred to me that if blue had been chosen in place of black, it would look like a woodsy IKEA showroom. For discriminating clients, of course. Lol. You just have to put it all together yourself.
Wow. As I put my hands in my pockets, shake my head, and walk away. You did an excellent job at building a cabin, yet as a guy who built my own house I can say there are areas in your build I'd have done differently....to save huge amounts of money. But, everybody is different and the way we both built our houses is different. You went for great amenities, I went for lower cost. Both achieved the same result, a ICF house with a metal roof, yet you got a approx. 1200sq/foot cabin, looking at a valley full of trees, I got a 4350 sq/ft home looking at a cove on a lake. Interesting, very interesting. Hope you enjoy it for years and years! God bless.
so much money spent here that was not needed
i am impressed of pouring of the slab. It looked really flat and smooth
Great appearance for a modern cabin with all of the modern amenities 👍🏼
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Thank you for this detailed video. Well done. I was curious why you went with filling in the foundation instead of creating a basement.
because they're clueless
Very nice (and entertaining). Thank you for sharing. One small thing just gnaws at me - the electrical service panel is the first thing you see driving up to the cabin and your electrician didn't bother (or forgot) to put the line to the AC disconnect in the wall, so you have ugly (and crooked) flexible NM conduit from the service panel to the AC disconnect that everyone's going to see.
Great job...just wondering about maintenance/upgradeability for the plumbing and electrical which is buried under concrete and rebar versus a more traditional crawlspace....
Awesome video. Great narration.Thank you. 👍🏽✌🏽
Gorgeous. We in the EU are living in a open prision. Nothing is allowed here. A cabin in the woods forget it. Sleeping in a tent is even not allowed.
Thank you for sharing a process like this.
I really like the overall finished cabin. Very chic. I might have actually built it on the upper level of the driveway with the deck extending over the current driveway so instead of dead ending the driveway at one point into the house, the deck would act as a car port and extra level of usable space. Basically shift the whole thing about 25 ft up the mountain slope. That is, if you owned the property. Of course, there's a reason behind everything. Kudos! Enjoy your new seasonal home! The Firespit is great!
I was thinking the same thing but then they would not get the great views from the deck, unless you mean building the deck top of the car port
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS 😍 WHAT A VIEW❣️
Very informative video, thanks for taking your time to make this. I would like to suggest showing the viewers some architectural diagrams of what u wanted to achieve at the beginning of the video. Great job anyway!
Yes please. Even if it's a link or something that you regularly edit in to show what area you are talking about at times.
Informative. Excellent documentation.
Thanks Robert.
Enjoyed this, thank you🙏
I have nothing to gain with people buying ICF's but I have built and lived in ICF home and it was the best by far. I would never want to live in anything else. Hands down the best
About time someone build a house out something other than wood, paper. Metal roofs or tiles are a must for my build in S Colorado. Fire country deserves bricks or concrete houses
8:21 I thought this could be a basement. Didn't expect you fill it all up!!!
wow I love this home and the vision behind it.
You should have done a walkout basement. Such the perfect spot for it. 6inch thick walls are all you need if building with stick wood & 2x10 lumber FLOOR/ROOF(what i will probably do)(Maybe even 8inch block water sealed on the outside(low cost diy insulation filled blocks)(floor tube heating w/diy ground insulation). Steel columns are way cheaper than concrete wall supports. I like this modern style layout(Orca prefab alternative | theflatsofcumberland). I will watch more.
Absolutely gorgeous 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations on the nice building. The only thing I would suggest is at least a 30 ft radius of trees be removed around the building it will help prevent damage if they're ever is some kind of wildfire I know it cuts into the view and the for lack of better words hidden home feel but foam melts pretty quickly and in a wildfire temperatures get extremely hot so the farther you cut a radius around the building the safer it will be just some fruit for thought. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
I have looked into Hempcrete, a lot more expensive that a stick build, on the pros, it’s fireproof, mildew proof, insect proof and you don’t need siding, also the carbon negative benefits save our planet. Also the house breathes due to compounds in the blocks. Great build, I’m curious of the cost breakdown on the next video.
I can only imagine how much it would cost to build something like this! Amazing.
ICF is not prohibitively expensive. Assume a house would cost another 10% on total price to build to make it near passive house products and techniques with ICF walls and SIP roof.
To gain the same energy efficiency of ICF you'd have to build a 2x6 or 2x8 double studded thick lumber framed walls and then fill it all with insulation while avoiding thermal bridging. It's not easy. With ICF it's easy. Like really easy to avoid thermal breaks. You can still screw up the thermal breaks at doors, windows, etc but you build those to be very efficient too with high energy efficiency.
With ICF you also gain the benefits of sound proofing, fire resistentance, tornado and hurricane resistant, and bug/pest proof which all lower home insurance costs. You're living in a bunker but it can be built to look like any style home you want.
The 6" to 8" thick concrete ICF walls with outer layers foam become thermal sinks by soaking up heat in the Summer and in the winter ists releasing heat if the air is cooler. So if for instance you opened a sliding glass door to the outside for a few minutes and then close it you'll notice the temp hasn't change much in the home; the home air temp balances with the concrete.
It the labor that that cost 90% of the home, if you can built which is not difficult, the only you have to worry about us materials and a few labors
Beautiful home.
Very nice build. For long I was wondering about large windows cutout in ICF panels, first time I see one in a video. Seems it worked pretty well. Do ICF manufacturer give instructions as to what the windows maximum dimension are ? (In proportion to the rest of the ICF panel) Thanks
Fat guy with toque holding 2x4 is awesome!!!
the little tie-off guns on the rebar are cool
@ 57:20 better add an empty conduit (large one too "like 2 to 4 inches")) to that trench for things that you may want to add latter/ like cable, intercom to gate at entrance, wires to add lights at driveway entrance, tubing to supply water to water feature (fountain, water fall etc.) and anything else your little heart desires LOL
Amazing cabin!
Thanks for sharing this with us!
Nice build. Ngl, I was hoping for a 2nd floor n more retaining walls instead of the slope. Great vid!
For those on a budget or just don't want to be reasonable with the cost and timeframe a post and beam suspended floor construction, stick framing and not using ZIP would get you the same house for 1/4 the cost and 1/4 the time. Enjoyed the video. BTW did you calculate the weight of this structure? In my head I think it is over 1/2 a Million lbs of building!! 10 truckloads of compacted gravel to just to have a slab floor then you covered it with flooring. I do not understand. Your house and I can tell you are happy and proud and that is all that matters when you don't care about your bank account. Lucky you!
Interesting for an ICF house you used forms for the stem wall rather than ICFs.
He should have used ICF for the stem wall, would have been much better
Tanks for sharing. Learned somethings from the project..
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Wow very nice and sound, thanes showing the perfectional works.
Really awesome project, but I have a rookie question about foundation, and that backfill with gravel. Why not just leave half of it empty and create a sort of a crawl space? Although, I'm not sure how much did you pay for gravel, so maybe there is as much savings as I think
Same question.
Same question???
Nicely done. I was fully expecting that foundation to be a 'basement-with-a-view' ....
Really nice, love it.
A very nice cabin. The surroundings are very fresh.
Strong and great looking foundation! Well done 👊 I love the ZIP System. The whole project is amazing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I would have liked to see the pouring of the 12×12 piers. They came out looking very well. Thank you.⁹
So mush foundation for size of the building
over all great job and beautiful result 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Don't forget he has ICF concrete walls all around. Those walls are heavy. The foundation is absolutely necessary for ICF walls.
Love the roof. When is raining inside will be like disco ball. No matter from insulation inside is crazy to live from experience I'm saying.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing.
this checks a lot of boxes & i applaud your use of ICF & metal roof, but i'm worried it's missing a few *key* things:
-no ERV/HRV with dehumidifier?...an absolute MUST for any structure built with low ACH as an ICF with closed-cell foam roof. fresh air is important for health of both occupants & the structure/materials. no mechanical ventilation is a huge issue, but esp in GA.
-no roof & siding furring strips?...need an air gap to allow moisture to escape. when the roof leaks (not if), finding & fixing are a nightmare that involves destroying the closed-cell foam. plus, high summer sun won't bake through the black metal & thermally bridge to the interior via the trusses as much if you roll out a radiant barrier too.
-no overhang?...w/o an overhang or gutter, all the runoff from the roof accumulates at the base of that long wall after running down it, & possibly behind it. didn't hear Zypex mentioned, so even with a french drain, the moisture will seep into your foundation/slab/wall at a high rate.
-no insulation under the slab?...all the great passive heat gain through the day gets wicked away from underneath, instead of releasing back into the home at night.
sorry if this is the 1st time you're hearing of these issues, but they should have been addressed by your engineer or at minimum, any one of the many contractors should have said something. they're that important (well, aside from slab insulation, that's just beneficial).
Pretty interested in your security system. Are you pleased with it? whats your favorite aspect about it and least favorite? Would you do anything differently now?
Nice job. Beautiful house 👍😎
Love it, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful build. Wonder if you are a Steelers fan. 😉 The sleek appearance is great, the inclusion of several great amenities, i. e., hot tub, fire pit and in ground grill are wonderful. I wonder why not solar?
Lovely. 👌
Very beautiful!
Wow. that view at 1:12:24 sure changed from earlier. I could hear the traffic before, but no way would I have guessed the road was down below to the left.
Hillside builds are always so involved. Nice video. 👍
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, that view wasn’t like that before. Unfortunately a developer clear cut all the trees on the neighboring lot after I started building. I have since installed a berm and will be landscaping that area.
congratulations, beautiful Home.
Very cool looking cabin!!😎
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Simple. Smart. Welldone.
That hillside looks like it's made out od sweet potato. The house looks pretty awesome. Hope to have a home myself one day.
Hi John, you did wonderful job, verry classy. I wonder if you have the breakdown of the cost for foundation, electrical, etc.
I will appreciate if you can give me idea. I am about to build a 1500 sqf. in a slop lot.
Nicely finished!😊
im a civil engineer and congratulate you on your lovely mountain cabin
Beautiful build! Simple and elegant design. Love the bright yellow entrance and details, and the location must be stunning during fall and winter.
One thing I didn't see on the video; was there any vertical rebar installed at the foundation perimeter to anchor/connect to the ICFs once those were poured? The video skips from "finished" foundation perimeter wall to ICFs in place. The examples I have seen in the past have had vertical rebar integrated onto the foundation wall to anchor the upper walls. I had not seen this type of construction with the ICF walls just resting on the foundation wall.
lol dood my fav is @22:42 "what you see here is all the prep work we did to prepare that"
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Gorgeous. Would love one for my wife and I? Any chance you care to build another (or similar)?
I'm curious why you chose to Zip R over ICF and then ice and rain shield on top of that. It seems that the ice and rain shield over osb over ICF creates the same sandwich as Zip R.