Interesting thread drifts are good, gnu. Snow drifts and wind drafts are forbidden. Good story, as usual.

We managed to get the heavy insulating blankets all around the top of the foundation, walking on the scaffolding. The excavator just arrived for tomorrow's gravel fill. Before that happens, a waterproof membrane will go all around the outside of the foundation.

Bobert (and anybody else with ICF experience), you have any recommendations for the ICF finish on the exposed outside? We want to use something efficient, low maintenance, and affordable. There will be gravel all around the perimeter at ground level. We know better than to crowd shrubs up against the foundation. I have some ideas regarding decorative aspects on the ICF finish, too, too.