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Post by mark2 on Oct 16, 2004 11:30:50 GMT 1
Hi again, I am trying to find out a rough cost of building materials compared with the UK, eg a bag of cement here is roughly £4, breezeblocks 40p ton of sand £35 etc, can anyone guide me to a Croatian building supply website with prices. My agent also told me timber is cheap as are cement mixers but couldn't give a price thanks  |
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Post by Steve on Oct 16, 2004 12:56:42 GMT 1
Mark,
Whilst I cannot give you exact details, my impression was that materials sourced locally (sand/blocks/cement..) were about 50% of UK prices. Anything that needed to be imported (tiles, bathrooms, tools..) were about the same. Also, it will depend on where you are - prices at the local merchants on islands are significantly higher than on the mainland.
Steve
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Post by ranger on Oct 18, 2004 20:32:53 GMT 1
Hi Mark
Hope you can use the sand crushed stone!!
dont forget your farey
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Post by alsdoubles on Oct 18, 2004 22:24:46 GMT 1
I can't add much to this, even though I've been here eight months. Cement? Anyone use cement. There are mountains of what we 'used' to call in the UK ''alf inch and dust' to make concrete. Croatia IS concrete. In the UK concrete is known as 'a sponge for water' okay. 'We're here' you say, Croatia is dry. No-way. When the rain comes here it's wet. Super wet. Monumental wet. Hail stones the size of bricks two days ago.
I would kill for a bag of 'brown sand' to make mortar, to build with 'bricks' not fired hollow tiles everyone uses on these limited lifetime palaces of concrete and naff pillars..
Prices, they're dead cheap. Labour, dead cheap. As my brother in law says (Croatian), a few kunas, a few vinos..happy. He's spends most of the time sleeping. And, you have to think, in this country where the weekly wage is peanuts, compared to the UK, everyone owns a flat, a house, a boat, and if you stand close enough to the water the fish will JUMP out of it saying...'eat me.' I've seen it, today. Buy a boat, go out on the water, cast a net, you will catch more fish than you've ever seen in your life. FREE food!
Croatia. Well it's an amazing place that defies the normal (in the west), we assume IS normal. And this thread is about building material costs. Sorry about that. But, it's not expensive.
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Post by ranger on Oct 19, 2004 19:57:31 GMT 1
Hi Alsdoubles
How about Hydrated Lime,Quicklime(CaO) slaked with
water (C2(OH)2 or Hydraulic Lime a must for stone buldings
Ranger
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Post by mark2 on Oct 19, 2004 21:10:14 GMT 1
Hi Alsdoubles How about Hydrated Lime,Quicklime(CaO) slaked with water (C2(OH)2 or Hydraulic Lime a must for stone buldings Ranger Thanks for your advice on lime, ranger, but it's a block built house, not stone and a refurb (finish off) not new build. |
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Post by alsdoubles on Oct 19, 2004 22:12:24 GMT 1
Ranger. Yep. Hydrated lime. I don't really know. They plaster with it, do they? The modern buildings use plaster board and the pink stuff of varying grades. But, I've seen guys plstering with this white stuff inside and out. It's not easy to learn about these things when you don't speak the language. One thing I do know is, the wet weather shows on Concrete properties within minutes. I insured my property today, plus contents, for a year. £60. The insurer laughed when I mentioned 'Concrete Croatia'
Beautiful white stone in this country. Hard and solid. But concrete rules.
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Post by ranger on Oct 21, 2004 20:01:34 GMT 1
Hi Mark
Hi Alsdoubles
Sorry i should have stated the availabity as i will need
this for my own property its a must for solid stone walls
for re-pointing being sacrificial pervious mortar they do not prevent wet walls from drying out, as oposed to OP cement;hard dense slow evaporation
Hence the wet concreat walls
Ranger
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Post by alsdoubles on Oct 21, 2004 21:32:26 GMT 1
Sibenik cathedral, built 1100 AD, using egg white to lock the blocks. Still standing. The old church in Split, built...300 AD, also still standing. Probably on compression and little else.
I think availability of everything is probably there, as building is going on everywhere. By everyone. And cheap.
Labour costs also cheap, but you have to know someone and be able to cummuncate. We've had a few good jobs done pretty reasonable.
The guy next door to me died yesterday, dropped down like a stiunned brick. His huge concrete box, some of it illegal, unfinished. I drove in to his funeral procession by accident. Quite a site, with a lone trumpeter adding to the heavy weight of an amazing occasion, which stopped the traffic for many minutes.
Maybe his son will finish the job. Or his son's son. One day, maybe.
Croatian ways.
Ineterstisantno.
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Post by ranger on Oct 22, 2004 19:32:22 GMT 1
Great wall of China held together by sticky rice
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