Andrea, As a way to stay focused on papercrete in the middle of winter I wrote to Greenstar Blox and asked them to give me a quote on a 40' X 60' shop using their blocks. I wanted to see what I would be saving by doing it myself onsite. These are the only commercally available PC blocks (that I know of). Here is what they said: Ronne: To give you some rough estimates in materials that you will need to complete your project - It looks as though you will be needing roughly 4900 adobe Greenstar Blox-which comes on 41 pallets.(normally comes on 120 per pallet-but with us having to ship there-we may stack 156 per pallet in order to save additional trucks) In order to make your field mixes on site for mortar and plasters-you will need 82 bundles of cellulose-and 8, 5-gallons buckets of our additives. On site-you will only need water and cement. With the Greenstar Blox costing $1.50 each, cellulose running $15.00 per bundle-and additives at $25.00 per gallon Your cost for materials will be approximately $10,720.00 with tax included. The freight will be about $2.50 per loaded mile to Montana-per truck. I am guessing close to 3 trucks of materials-which will cost around $6,000.00 total........... We would love to be a part of your project-and are here to help you in any capacity that is needed. If this sounds interesting to you-we can begin to fine tune the numbers-but this should at least give you something to go by. Feel free to call us anytime for more information-and to answer any other questions that you may have. Zach Rabon President Mason Greenstar, Inc. [ http://www.greenstarblox.com/ ]www.greenstarblox.com3 Remember this is without roof, doors, or windows. I will be doing myself for a fraction of that. I can't even imagine swallowing the shipping cost. I thought of asking them if they'd like to start a plant here and other places so the shipping is less, but haven't. Cheers, Ron From: alohadarla <alohadarla@yahoo.com> |
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