Architects & Design Professionals

  Central Arizona Block Company besides being a manufacture,  is an excellent source for you to ask us for more specifics on:

• What products are available?    CABCO is a full line Mfg. of Smooth, Split-Face, Shot Blast, Ground Face, Polished, Founders Finish & Slump. Many aggregate choices are available to add distinction in addition to block color.  All products are produced at one location, this reduces transport damage and lead times.
•  Why some jobs product costs vary significantly more than others?  While almost anything is possible, designs that require excessive mold changes for size and shape, small quantities of a unique product (either color, shapes or aggregates), or small orders with non stocking colors cost us extra to produce.  Due to anytime the block machines are not running, they are not making any money. Special colors and aggregates are not an issue on large orders but our minimum batch size is 3/4 cyd, so small non stock colors create a lot of waste.
•  Lead times?     Ours are some of the shortest in the industry.  However: Some products finishes like Ground & Polished, for best results need to be at least 3 weeks old before those finishing processes are started. 
• Leed & recycled capabilities?   We can add up to 35% recycled content to many of our products. If your project involves masonry demolition, often times we will accept that for a disposal fee (keeping it out of landfills)- it must be masonry only- no contamination. Keep in mind some recycled colors may show on certain finishes, such as splits, ground and polished. (usually they are an attribute to color)
• Avoiding design pitfalls?     Such as designs calling for raked exterior mortar joints. This a water penetration problem unless you specify off- set cores on the exterior units that are to have raked mortar joints.  Off-set cores will give the front shell extra thickness so a raked mortar joint will still have decent thickness, reducing the likely hood  of significant water penetration. 
  
• Sealers & IWR?     We offer IWR as an option on our products. Whenever IWR is specified for masonry, it should also be specified for the mortar.  We do not pre-seal any of our products. We believe a better option is applying those dollars to having the exterior wall surfaces sealed, since that seals everything, especially the mortar contact joints.
  
• Fire Rating         Like most manufactures we use equivalent thickness method for computing fire ratings. National Concrete Masonry Association covers fire ratings in depth with publication TEK 07-01C, which can be found at https://ncma.org/resource/fire-resistance-ratings-of-concrete-masonry-assemblies/         Typically our standard 8816 falls just short of a two hour rating with standard aggregates  and shell thicknesses.  Increased fire duration can be achieved by block changes or by filling the block cells with an approved fill.  Some methods a manufacture can do are, a wider block, thicker face shell, use of cinder aggregates in the block mfg process.
  

The Reference heading above has specific product details such as sustainability, pictures of block colors and textures, standard color list. 
Be sure to check out the More heading then Projects to see we can supply them all.
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If unable to find what you need or you require further information, product samples or sample boxes just contact the below.

Josh

Commercial Sales/ Assistant Manager
Office 520-514-1177  or Josh @cabcoaz.com

Rick

Commercial Sales / Customer Service
Office 520-514-1177   Rick@cabcoaz.com