Tool question

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ammklq143

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Iowa
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Electrician
I don't see anywhere to post general questions about things like tools, so I'm going to ask here. I need to buy a hot knife for an ICF basement.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good ICF hot knife for cutting holes for boxes and grooves for wire?

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infinity

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Location
New Jersey
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Journeyman Electrician
Never worked with ICF but I've read that an electric chainsaw works well.

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Chasman

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Location
Colorado
I have one of these coming up. I have yet to do one. Any input on these. I have heard the contractor say the last electrician used a sawzall, however, they will not use him again.
Replies can be PMed to me.
Thanks to all, I have learned much on hear.
 

Fulthrotl

~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~

there isn't much use of the foam blocks on the left coast.... only one i've seen
recently is on ocean avenue in long beach, and it looks like they ran outta money
after getting the walls up... signs of the times.. never made it to rough electrical.

so i was wondering how you wired the stuff.... a router would work if it was one
that did good chip extraction to a shop vac. the only one that wouldn't flock
the whole neighborhood with styrofoam would be a festool router, and they
aren't cheap... this sorta hot knife thru butter thing in the video seems
a bit more reasonable....

assuming you use a LV gun or concrete screws to anchor the box, and if you were using smurf, what's the most common method for wiring? smurf tube in
a groove in the foam, or bx, or romex for residential? do you use one hole
straps to anchor it, or foam the conduit into the wall with expanding foam?


randy
 
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