> I'm looking to build a hurricane resistant house in central
Florida.
What will you do for the windows?
>Using ICF for the outside walls seems to be the way to go.
The core of the walls should survive anything up to having a pickup truck dropped on them. What will you use for the finished surface on the outside?
>Given this
is termite country, the plan is to use steel studs for the interior
walls.
BuildBlock and Logix have foam blocks that have an anti-termite agent mixed into them. Article on termites and ICF: https://www.icfmag.com/2017/09/termites-and-icfs/
>I
heard that steel studs are flimsy and if you want to hang something on a
wall, the fastener will pull out of the wall because the steel stud is
so thin.
Studs come in different gauges. The load bearing ones have the heaviest gauges. He may also be thinking of the aluminum ones, which look a lot like the steel.
>drilling holes in
concrete for the PV wires would not be a lot of fun.
It's not that bad with a screw gun and a new masonry bit. Also, drilling into cement should give you a pretty serious grip onto the roof.