All Wall System - Manufacturers of Stay In Place Forms where Carpenters Build Concrete Walls

Frequently Asked Questions

1.) What is the cost per SF of the home?

Sadly there is no easy way to just give a number here. The reason is, for example, a 3,000 SF home can have the
following linear feet of Load Bearing Walls and/or fire rated walls that are made with the "All Wall" system:

220 lf thru 310 lf.
Since All Wall is manufactured and sold by the Square Foot of wall area there is no ONE answer.

To prepare a conservative estimate "for BUDGETING Purposes only" use $10.00 / SF of the actual wall area.

EXAMPLE:    220 LF multiplied by the height of the walls, if they were 8' tall, = 1,760 SF
                  To determine the price of the All Walls, ready for plasterers to apply exterior finish and the interior finishers to
                   apply gypsum mud, multiply 1,760 SF of Wall time $10.00/SF of wall = $17,060.00 plus tax and delivery
  For a one story 3,000 SF home with 8' walls the installed price is $ 5.69/SF of Floor Area, for this example.

2.) Do I need to do anything extra to the outside before applying the stucco type finish to the Exterior?
No

3.) Do I need to put furring strips on the inside of the walls?
No

4.) Do I need to put insulation on the inside of the walls?
No

5.) Do I need to .... NO! Drywall boards are not needed either. NO DRYWALL BOARDS. The interior gypsum
mud goes directly onto the cement boards that are on the interior of the All Wall system.

6.)    My brother just poured the slab for his 2,000 SF home a 4 weeks ago and the tie beam isn't poured yet. I heard you
tell someone that you can install your walls at 30 feet an hour. For my brother's house you would have installed the walls in 7
hours. Is this right?
   Yes, with two conditions: 1.) The panels are 3 ft wide to 4 ft wide, and 2.) if you used only one crew. Different
width panels take the same time to install. So if the panels are 16" wide and you install 8 of them in an hour you
have only gone 11 feet versus the 30 ft referenced above.   If you used two crews, which is easy since they will be
working on opposite sides of the home, and they aren't dodging heavy equipment, your brother could have installed every
load bearing wall of his house in 4 hours.

If you are in an area where the inspectors could be scheduled to be on site at 1:00 pm, you could schedule the concrete
pumper to be on site at 2:00 and have the walls filled before quitting time that first day. Since there is no stripping, other than
lifting off the ladder forms at the top of the tie beam, you can be installing the trusses on the second day.

But, if you know that the inspections take a full day to get there (sometimes more), then, if you started on Monday, called for
an inspection for Tuesday (by Monday at 3:00 pm), Received an inspection Tuesday - some time, and scheduled your
concrete pumper for Wednesday morning, by noon Wednesday you would have your walls completed. So, to add an extra
day for inspections your brother's home would be ready for trusses in Three Days,

versus the 4 weeks schedule he is following.

The reason people are buying All Wall is not for the speed, but for:

• the Long Term Benefits over concrete blocks,
• the smooth transition with the same subcontractors (stucco men and drywall finishers)

that finish this system as would concrete blocks, and
• the fact that they can be built by Carpenters, or by the buyers themselves.

Just for kicks. Ask him what he is going to do with the scrap lumber for forming and the broken concrete blocks that
are left over? All Wall does not have this waste. Maybe one half of a 30 gallon trash can of 8" c-stud pieces left
over. About 20 lbs worth. Which, of course, is completely recyclable or it fits into your trash can at home.
(No additional job cost.)

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