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String comment = 'Anyone here do a glass building? I heard it can be relatively cheap if you use glass storefront hardware/contractors.';
'u mean greenhouse?';
'>>2786258
>if you use glass storefront contractors';
'>>2786258
Go research prices in your area. No one here knows what that is so be sure to keep your questions as vague as possible like "how cheep is howse?" and don't volunteer any info unless you're waterboarded.';
'>>2786258
>I heard it can be relatively cheap
It won't be. Those huge glass panels are not cheap.
In 2019 I did an interior fit-out for a martial arts studio which included a couple walls of floor to ceiling glass, the "storefront" kind with large glass panels set in aluminum channel frames. It was a total of 45' of glass wall which cost $18k just for fabrication, delivery, and installation. That's $400 per linear foot of wall. However that was interior glass, for exterior glass with shit like low E coating, argon filled cavity, etc. I'd imagine it could possibly be 1.5x as much.
Say you have a modestly sized house with 150' of exterior walls and 75' of interior walls you want made out of glass.
150x600=$90,000
75x400=$30,000
That's $120k just for the glass.
This of is not taking into account minimum glazing pressure ratings which exterior windows & doors are required to meet, which vary greatly from area to area. If it's a windy or coastal area, the glass may end up having to be VERY thick depending on how large the panels are.
Also the entire house will have to be built out of steel beams & columns engineered with moment connections to provide lateral/wind bracing, which is also very expensive. That's maybe another 50 grand in materials & engineering costs.
So now you're at like $170k just for the walls. Add in excavation, foundation, floor platform, roof structure, finish materials, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if you're out of pocket $400k or more.';
'>>2786258
most important thing is to not cast stones';
'>>2786258
No. It won't be cheap.
t.glass storefront hardware/contractor';
'>>2789328
Glass sneeze/privacy guard for wheelchair bound customers.';
'>>2787092
The thing is that the glass industry is notorious for rampantly opportunistic and nonsensical pricing that has almost no pricing standards beyond "how much have you got?"
Some of this is straight up predation, in other instances suppliers and fabricators may give extremely competitive prices for one specialty item like insulated panels or mirror and then price stuff they don't want to deal with in a manner designed to almost guarantee that people will look elsewhere, and if they don't they can overpay *wildly* for the most basic stuff.
It's so prevalent that it's an inside joke in the industry and for any particular piece of glass it is not at all far fetched to say that whatever the lowest possible price it can possibly be sold for, you can easily find someone who will quote 10-100X that price and tell you that's just what it costs.
All of which is to say that while I don't dispute the numbers you cite, you can only ever get a ballpark cost-per-foot figure by working backwards from an actual invoice and that invoice may have little relation to any average cost.
Again, some of that is opportunism but it also has a LOT to do with handling costs incurred to get glass to processors like tempering and panelizing facilities from any particular manufacturer location and then on to any particular jobsite.';
'>>2789346
>but it also has a LOT to do with handling costs
Exactly. Breakage has to be figured in. The manufacturer prices it with contingencies due to the nature of glass, tempered can and does regularly shatter in the oven. Any glass contracts has it figured where any job can loose a piece and they're still covered.';
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