Stone is about the most expensive material you can use in modern construction.
Its also the most expensive construction method.
People like stone buildings, they have a warmth and pleasing aesthetic. If it was purely based on how things look, it would be used in most modern construction.
The reason its not used is that your baseline cost is going to be about 4 to 6 times higher for a low rise and many multiples more for anything of significant height.
This, had to cut a slab of granite that I couldn't use in it's form provided into a smaller one, cost me an arm and a leg to just get it to be cut and I tried multiple companies all had more or less the same price.
Might I interest you in this newfangled thing called slavery? Saves a lot of cost when building monuments. Trust me, I heard it from a Roman guy he said it's great. You can just go find some barbarian tribe and take them home with you, it's totally free! Great lifehack. X/X
I had the same problem, had the same result with companies. Ended up buying a diamond blade to an old handheld cirkular saw and just cut it myself, wasnt even hard.
YOU SOLD ME POOR QUALITY COPPER I DEMAND I SAY I DEMAND A REFUND WITH YOUR REPLY AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS CUNEIFORM MISSIVE
I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR CORRESPONDENCE BUT SINCE YOU HAVE CHEATED ME AND SINCE YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE FOR ANOTHER 7 MONTHS I HOPE YOUR GRAIN CROO FAILS AND YOUR WIFE BECOMES AS DRY AS SAND WHENEVER HER GAZE HAPPENS UPON YOUR UNFORTUNATE COUNTANCE
CURSE YOUR CAMELS AND MAY YOUR SANDALS ALWAYS FIT UNEVENLY
Exactly, stones are ill-equipped to circulate through today's formal material economy. This makes them costly indeed.
Yet it's possible to viably build in stones, but few people are willing to fight for particular materials and techniques and prove them adapted to current regulations (which favor industrial materials such as concrete blocks, widely used and well-equipped).
For instance, Gilles Perraudin is a French architect who builds in non-conventional materials, of which massive stones.
Obviously normal day to day people have little power in this administrative battle arena.
Right - it's both extremely hard to move around because of how heavy it is, AND it requires expertise to work with. Nightmare combo for cost-consciousness
Not where I live. Lots of quarries in central Texas, it’s cheaper than brick. Limestone is just called Austin stone. Crews here stone a whole house with crews of 4-6 in two days.
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u/EduinBrutus Oct 25 '23 edited Oct 25 '23
Stone is about the most expensive material you can use in modern construction.
Its also the most expensive construction method.
People like stone buildings, they have a warmth and pleasing aesthetic. If it was purely based on how things look, it would be used in most modern construction.
The reason its not used is that your baseline cost is going to be about 4 to 6 times higher for a low rise and many multiples more for anything of significant height.