Bloxes and Thrift
September 10th, 2008Are Bloxes economical? Yes!
They are especially useful for renters, who can’t make permanent changes to their apartment or office. Bloxes compare favorably with standard solutions for office partitions, self-made walls, and sound-dampening insulation. Plus, they’re a lot more fun, and can be reused for different purposes. Granted, they take time to put together the first time, but once you’ve got them assembled, they’ll last for years.
Office Partitions – A standard free-standing office partition will run you $300 or more. A blox wall six tall by ten long will cost you $135.
Dividing Walls – To purchase a free-standing 6′ tall wall, you will likely spend $250 per 4 foot section. A blox wall that is eight bloxes tall will cost you $90 per five-blox length. Plus, with Bloxes, you can use an open lattice, and have as many as twelve bloxes left over!
Closets – To build a closet in an office or apartment is both permanent and expensive (or, if you do it yourself, permanent, expensive, time-consuming, and messy). A contractor quoted approximately $800 to build a small closet in a Chicago close. To build an equivalent Bloxes closet, it took $400 worth of bloxes.
Sound Dampening – Insulating foam costs between $4 and $10 per square foot, whereas Bloxes cost approximately $2.50 per blox, which works out to less than $4 per square foot. Bloxes don’t do the same work as acoustic foam; but they work very well to reduce ambient noise of many kinds. And again, Bloxes do not have to be permanently installed; they will happily sit simply stacked along a wall.
