Features & Benefits
There are many benefits to Polycrete© products:
- Eco-friendly
- Easy and fast installation
- High Insulating Value
- Lasting
- Versatile
- Designed to be used for any type of buildings: residential, commercial and industrial
- Offers no limit in design, height or thickness of wall
- Accepts all exterior siding types
- Savings
- Energy savings
- Maintenance savings
- Construction costs savings
- Peace of mind
- Resistance to fire
- Resistance to natural disasters
- An investment that endures
- A more comfortable structure
- Controlled temperature
- Excellent air quality
- Soundproof building
- Eco-friendly
- No CFC
- Minimal jobsite waste can be recycled
- Low use of wood
The following table shows the FLEX 850 and Big Block characteristics for 6" walls with interior and exterior sidings.
| Characteristics | FLEX 850 | Big Block |
|---|
| Thermal efficiency | R-28 | R-28 |
| Soundproofing | STC-60 | STC-60 |
| Fire resistance | 3 hours | 3 hours |
| Expanded polystyrene | Type 3 | Type 2 |
| Fastening strip | Plastic T profile | Steel fastening strips |
| Height | 12" (30 cm) | 24" (61 cm) |
| Length | 96" (244cm) | 96" (244cm) |
| Pannel thickness | 2-1/2" (6,4 cm) | 2-1/2" (6,4 cm) or 1-3/4" (4,45 cm) |
| Concrete thickness | - 5-5/8" (143 mm)
- 7-5/8" (194 mm)
- 9-5/8" (245 mm)
- 11-5/8" (245 mm)
- On request
| - 4" (100 mm)
- 5-5/8" (143 mm)
- 7-5/8" (194 mm)
- 9-5/8" (245 mm)
- 11-5/8" (245 mm)
- On request
|
| Wall coverage | 8 sq.ft. (0,74 m2) | 16 sq.ft. (1,49 m2) |
| Lateral pressure ressistance | 850 pounds per sq.ft. (40 kPa) | 1600 pounds per sq.ft. (75kPa) |
| Packaging | 6 per bundle | 16 per bundle |
| Particularities | - Panels are held together with metallic assembly ties
| - Embedded wire mesh reinforcement
- Fully assembled
- Foldable
|
|
