Thermohouse ICF Wall System: ThermoWall

We all start our house building journey with a long list of ideas, built up from years of dreaming of owning our own home. Whether it’s an open plan kitchen-living room, or large glazing that opens out to a garden. Imagine being able to get all the features you dreamed of from your new home without any trade-offs. A modern home that spacious, bright and energy efficient. Wouldn’t it be great to come home to a house that’s always perfectly warm? How about never having to pay a heating bill again?

We all want to feel safe and comfortable in our homes. We walk inside our front door from our hectic day at work or with the kids. We want peace and quiet and the time to relax. Imagine lying on the couch and catching up on some overdue reading or the latest football highlights, without the noise of your kids or neighbours above or below you.

At Thermohouse, our ThermoWall system provides you with a solid and safe home. Our insulated concrete walls are reinforced, allowing you to have large floor to ceiling windows, corner window features or bifold doors. Our ThermoWalls give you privacy, allowing you to create your own sanctuary to unwind in, while the kids get to have their own space to play and enjoy themselves.

What Is Thermowall?

ThermoWall is an insulated concrete formwork (ICF) building system – It produces reinforced concrete walls fully wrapped in insulation, eliminating all cold bridging.

The insulating concrete formwork (ICF) system consists of expanded polystyrene (EPS) components utilised as the formwork for plain or reinforced engineered concrete walls cast in-situ. These components come in the form of a block, comprising of two leaves of EPS, of which the outer leaf may vary in thickness depending on the U-value required.

Considering the expansive nature of concrete and the necessity to vibrate the mix once poured into a shutter, we made an important decision when designing our ICF wall blocks. The EPS leaves are tied together by galvanised steel inserts. These inserts not only add rigidity to the blocks, but they also add extra reinforcement, strength and crack prevention to the concrete, as well as security for the reinforcement steel which is rested upon grooves in the metal bridges. The result: straight, robust and uniform walls which will stand the test of time.