Posted Feb 2, 2017, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by dkabalen
I wouldn't know the exact cost for this particular project. However if you drive by the site, you can see that it was only 5 working days to install the complete precast on this site. No staging, no heating required. Again, on a tight site where space is limited it would be consideration.
Brick would require the staging, heating and time. . . Again you never know the exact period of time it would take, but think simple brick, you would be looking at a time period of at least 3 months to complete brick work.
At the same time, timeline is just one consideration, because in reality, the brick work on the outside wouldn't impact the interior work. If you went the brick route, you would be installing brick on a fully closed in building with windows and the veneer behind the brick. So it is not really a huge consideration when it comes to time. In theory, pre-cast takes longer to close the building in as you have to wait for the installation, size the windows, order them, and then wait for them to arrive and then install.
Price wise, using a basic, but quality brick, you are probably looking at pre-cast costing 25-30% more.
Hope this helps answer some questions and don't "quote" me on the price or process, but those are the difference that I am aware of.
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My complaint with the precast panels is that it is a fake textured brick (concrete), instead of having real brick inlaid in the precast concrete. All the advantages of using precast panels would have been achieved with higher quality, more expensive precast panels. The precast panels with (real) inlaid brick is very commonly used; in my surrounding neighbourhood of the GTA it seems to be more common than (fake) textured brick panels.
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