The company specialises in construction products for the building and landscape industry. The company Simbloc has a manufacturing facility in Hamilton and services the greater Hamilton / Toronto area. Mortarless masonry can facilitate faster construction of walls over conventional mortared masonry due to the absence of a mortar laying process and availability of interlocking features on the blocks. The Simbloc Mortar less Concrete Block Building System is one, also a Floor / Roof system which is used in development projects in The Dominican Republic and El Salvador, and also a new Driveway / Roadway Curbing System. A mortarless dry-stacked interlocking masonry system consists of Interlocking compressed earth blocks (ICEB) or concrete interlocking blocks or fly-ash interlocking blocks that are laid dry-stacked or with minimum mortar slurry in a stretcher bond in a wall. Concrete blocks have been a popular building material for centuries.
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Money varies across time and regions, but they can cost up to three times as much as the 2x4s and drywall typically used for construction. Simon has developed patented new innovative building systems which are manufactured here in Canada, among these are products displayed on this site. The cost of building with concrete blocks can be higher than traditional frame construction. In Canada Simon's Father Hendrick Stenekes started a concrete products manufacturing business in the backyard of the family home in 1959 which Simon continued and expanded from 1969 for 25 years before passing it onto his son, Mark Stenekes, Mark continues the business manufacturing custom architectural precast concrete products and landscape materials in Hamilton (Flamboro) Ontario. This TEK describes the construction and engineering design of such mortarless wall systems.
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Even today his older brother and his children are involved in the paving stone and retaining wall business in Holland. 16) With the use of specially fabricated concrete masonry units known as dry-stack units, construction of these mortarless systems is simple, easy and cost effective. His roots come from the Netherlands in Europe where he was born and where his ancestry was involved in the stone construction business. Allan Block Retaining Walls - Built-In Engineering Allan Block’s built-in features make retaining walls easy to engineer and simple to build. is a Canadian company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, manufacturing modular concrete products such as Mortarless Building Blocks, Floor / Roof Systems, Stone Facia Veneer, Driveway / Road Curbing System, Retaining Wall Systems, and Interlocking Paving Stones.Ĭompany / Family History : Simon Stenekes comes from a family who has a long history in the construction and manufacturing industry. Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colors or patterns to masonry walls.