The ICF Guys
Completed black-clad modern ICF home on a boulder-terraced rise

Custom concrete homes from award-winning ICF specialists.

We design and build custom homes, pools, and bunkers in insulated concrete across the Columbia River Gorge. Stronger, quieter, and cheaper to heat than a framed house, built by the owner and his crew.

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Reviews

What clients say about the work.

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  • M. & E. Carter

    May 2026

    “Our house went up in weather that shut down every framed jobsite on our road. Josh runs a tight crew, communicates constantly, and the finished house is silent inside even when the Gorge wind is howling.”

  • K. Sorensen

    March 2026

    “We built at elevation where winter is serious. The walls went up through the shoulder season and the house holds its heat on a fraction of the propane our old cabin burned.”

  • D. Whitfield

    January 2026

    “Same crew poured our foundation and our pool. The shell is dead level, the water stays warm late into fall, and the schedule never slipped.”

  • T. Alvarez

    November 2025

    “I run my own crews, but this was our first ICF build. Josh reviewed the plans, trained my guys on the first course, and stood the pour with us. Worth every dollar.”

  • S. Hale

    September 2025

    “They tied a new ICF addition into our existing home without tearing the place up. Clean site every single day, and the new rooms are the most comfortable in the house.”

  • R. M.

    July 2025

    “Discreet, dry, and quiet. It came in on the number he quoted, and you would never know it's there.”

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    Owner-led from initial assessment through final inspection.

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Everything we build, from custom homes to consulting.

Recognized at the ICF Builder Awards at World of Concrete. Josh leads every engagement from first assessment through final inspection, and the same in-house crew forms, braces, and pours every wall.

What we’ve been building.

Hillside homes, below-grade garages, and suspended insulated decks, all recent work across the Gorge, with the owner on site from the first block to the final inspection.

Progress

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Every build is documented from foundation to finished shell. Drag the handle to compare the same project months apart.

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Hip-roof contemporary

Dried-in ICF shell to stucco and black stone.

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Addition below an existing home

First courses in fall, a poured deck by winter.

The case for concrete

The strongest wall we know how to build.

A framed wall relies on studs, films, and caulk staying dry and tight for decades. An ICF wall is a single piece of the building: reinforced concrete with continuous insulation on both faces. No cavities to hold moisture, no gaps in the insulation, nothing to rot. It goes up once and it’s permanent.

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FAQ

Common questions, answered.

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Why build with ICF instead of framing?

A framed wall is a chain of compromises: studs bridge the insulation, cavities collect moisture, and the whole assembly depends on films and caulk to stay tight. An ICF wall has no cavity to fail. The result is a home that holds temperature with less mechanical effort, stays dramatically quieter inside, resists fire and storm loads, and doesn't accumulate the rot and drafts that age a framed house.

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Service areas

Working across the Columbia River Gorge.

Owner-led across three primary zones, serving the full Gorge on both sides of the river.

Primary zone

White Salmon

WA

White Salmon is home base — The ICF Guys build from the same bluff-top town they live in, with the shop, the crew, and most of the portfolio within a short drive. Hillside lots, river views, and Gorge wind are the local conditions, and insulated concrete walls are a direct answer to all three.

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Primary zone

Hood River

OR

Hood River sits directly across the bridge from home base, and Oregon-side builds run under CCB #245102 with the same crew and the same forming system. The valley's mix of orchard acreage, hillside view lots, and in-town parcels all build well in insulated concrete — especially where wind exposure and summer heat argue for a wall with real thermal mass.

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Primary zone

The Dalles

OR

The Dalles is the east Gorge's working city — hotter, drier, and windier than the river towns upstream, with basalt never far below the topsoil. ICF walls earn their keep here twice: summer heat stays outside, and the structure anchors solidly into ground that punishes shortcuts.

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