The basic difference between both of them is listed below. Which will make you understand which of the above products is good giving an insight into its different characteristics. Giving you the right to choose a product confidently. One that will stay surely for a long time.
1. Weight
In fact, they weigh around 3 to 4 times more than the MPC grills. In today's time, architects prefer products that are light in weight. In simple terms, this implies that they prefer products that don't increase the dead load weight of the building. Also, when the weight of the core product is heavy then its installation becomes very tough and costly.
2. Finishing
Because GRC grills are made on Moulds hence they don’t have a standardised “Finishing.” On the other hand, WPC/MPC grills are made on Italian CNC machines, hence 0.1-micron finishing is guaranteed in our products.
3. Price
Well, MPC grills are in the range of Rs.150 sq ft. GRC Grills are pretty expensive when you take into account the benefits that MPC grills offer to you.
4. Maintenance
MPC’s maintenance is easy, on the other hand, GRC's maintenance is tough.
We have two case studies which are of Panchsheel, Noida and Alpine Convent School, Gurgaon and with this case studies.
We have become very sure about the credibility of MPC Grills, as they (the above parties)had installed MPC grills and unfortunately in a wind storm their GRC Grills had fallen off, they had to use WPC over GRC grills during reconstruction, to avoid this dangerous act of god.
Also, since MPC Grill is white in color, so whenever it rains, the products gets automatically cleaned.
5. Thickness
Coming to the next point, in our case, our thickness starts from 11mm for exteriors and can go up to 30mm as well. GRC comes in a standard size of 35mm,40mm or 45mm for buildings and leads to an increase in the dead load weight of the building.
6. Thickness
GRC being made on molds and not on a computerised operated machines. Hence, it compromises the aesthetics factor. However, it being thicker in nature, it gives more depth to the product. The same can also be achieved in MPC Grills. You must be thinking how can we do so? Well, we can take a 30mm grill and we can do a 3D taper cutting on MPC Grill and can achieve the same thickness and depth which is there in GRC Grill.
7. Lead Time
The next major point is of Lead Time, when a product is made on moulds than it, in turn, increases the lead time. A group housing builder has to subcontract the entire GRC quantity to two or three manufacturers because of the limitation of the product is getting manufactured at a faster pace and during these, it might so happen that the builder might receive GRC Grills which would be different from others. Hence, there clearly is a risk involved here. On the other hand in the case of MPC, we can deliver 50000 sq feet in less than 20 days.
8. Color
The next point is that of color when we talk about GRC we can get them in different colors.
MPC grills come in white color whereas WPC grills comes in a beige color, which is preferred by almost 90% builders. As beige color is what builders use.
9. Shaft Opening
in case, if GRC shafts are not openable then whenever we fix GRC grills it becomes very tough as the product is very heavy and also they are not installed via screws rather are installed via proper fasteners and nuts. Incase, of MPC it is very easy to refit and to again open the screws using drill machines.
Moreover, if a user wants to do maintenance on his/her own which arises because of leakages or anything else, then they can do so easily without any hassles.
10. Ease of Installation
The framework required is way lighter in case of MPC and now we are doing a project which involves a 62 storeyed building. Imagine if GRC grills was to be used here, there would have been ample requirement of a crane. Also, there would be a lot of difficulties and challenges in terms of its installation. In the case of MPC Grills if there is a requirement of 10/4 feet, then we can divide it into two parts of 5/4 feet each with or without a crane or via hands, as both the ways are an easy-breezy task here.
11. Loses
Also, GRC has handling losses involved at the manufacturer and at the builder's end. When you take GRC grills from the ground towards the nth floor then there are chances of it breaking down. Which results in huge losses.
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