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Re: The high cost of bulk brick building
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lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:01:32 GMT
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"Jonathan Lopes" <cityboy4k@aol.com> wrote in message
news:G6yB4q.5AF@lugnet.com...
> It does get expensive. What I do is focus on the facades & all *exposed*
> areas of the buliding. For example: a city block is say 8 buildings long, • so
> they are right next to each other, so those sides that are not exposed,
> don't need windows & can be made out of the *non-building colors* (yellow,
> blue etc.) which are more easily & less expensively obtained. I do this • for
> the backs of the buildings as well, because in most cases there will be
> another block back to back with the first one.
Except this doesnt work in the case of a large office block where all sides
are exposed.
Though in the case of mine, I do have the bottom half of one side built only
of bricks, not more expensive windows, as it does butt up against its
neighbour
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> I'd like to see pix of your block.
Probably at the week end when I have finished detailing and making
adjustments
regards
lawrence
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| (...) It does get expensive. What I do is focus on the facades & all *exposed* areas of the buliding. For example: a city block is say 8 buildings long, so they are right next to each other, so those sides that are not exposed, don't need windows & (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build)
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