My wife and I are in the process of building our first house. After many months of looking at basement wall options (poured, block, ICFs) I chose to go with Superior Walls. If you aren’t familiar with them, here’s a link to their web page superior walls
I am so glad that this is what we decided to use. The sales rep and company was very helpful. They were always there to answer any questions that arose.
The walls set on a crushed stone footing. My father-in-law, uncle, brother and I did the prep work that was really straightforward. We had to set corner pins to grade, square the walls, and have the gravel to within 1 inch of level.
When the crew that sets the walls arrived on site, they checked the grade, corner pins and set the gravel at final grade. The panels arrived on two tractor-trailers. They use a crane to set the panels in place. The panels are leveled and plumbed. A sealant is placed between each panel and they are bolted together.
The first panel was set at about 9:30am and the final panel was set at about 2:00pm. The basement is 36 feet by 60 feet. We checked the basement for square. It was out about a 1/16 and was dead level. We went from a hole in the ground to a finished basement in about 4 ˝ hours. From the time the panel order was placed to the time of setting the panels was about 10 days.
Here are a few pics of the process.