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cost difference...shutter or block walls

  • 02-11-2013 3:42pm
    #1
    crackcrack30
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    To wall a 3 bay lean 2 general purpose shed to 6ft sides and back ...........(15'6 bays 18 ft deep).......are blocks cheaper or just more labour intensive?
    ........would hope to get someone in at 50-60cent per cavity block cash. & would prob want a plastered outer finish...

    Any opinions.......or breakdown?. tanx


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  • #2
    bob charles
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    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    To wall a 3 bay lean 2 general purpose shed to 6ft sides and back ...........(15'6 bays 18 ft deep).......are blocks cheaper or just more labour intensive?
    ........would hope to get someone in at 50-60cent per cavity block cash. & would prob want a plastered outer finish...

    Any opinions.......or breakdown?. tanx

    concrete panels, you can change your mind in time to come and just take down a panel, the flexibility they offer cant be underestimated. Never built block walls as you cant load against them or anything and shutter walls only for silage pit etc where you need serious strength


  • #3
    crackcrack30
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    What length and height are the panels and roughly how much? do they interconnect?

    cheers


  • #4
    td5man
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    bob charles wrote: »
    concrete panels, you can change your mind in time to come and just take down a panel, the flexibility they offer cant be underestimated. Never built block walls as you cant load against them or anything and shutter walls only for silage pit etc where you need serious strength

    Shuttered walls are a lot cheaper than panels.


  • #5
    jersey101
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    td5man wrote: »
    Shuttered walls are a lot cheaper than panels.

    no price difference, we are getting them to make stud walls at the end of cubicles next year. Ye can get them up to 15'5 i think and any height ye want


  • #6
    td5man
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    jersey101 wrote: »
    no price difference, we are getting them to make stud walls at the end of cubicles next year. Ye can get them up to 15'5 i think and any height ye want

    2.3m3 of concrete will do a wall 15'9 x 8".


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  • #7
    jersey101
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    td5man wrote: »
    2.3m3 of concrete will do a wall 15'9 x 8".

    what about steel and hiring shutters.the precast ones are very convenient ye just drop em in and job done


  • #8
    td5man
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    jersey101 wrote: »
    what about steel and hiring shutters.the precast ones are very convenient ye just drop em in and job done

    You dont need a whole pile of steel in a 8 wall .
    Ive access to shutters and can put them up myself
    The precast are very handy though.


  • #9
    bob charles
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    last time I bought panels I was paying around €25 per m sq plus the vodka and tonic.


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