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Title: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: geoffr70 on 21 August 2011, 11:26:33
Hello peeps, does anyone know roughly what the price of ready mix concrete is? looked on websites but it appears it is POA and most places closed. Thanks
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: aaronjb on 21 August 2011, 12:03:14
Depends on the mix (and if you want fibre reinforced or not) but I got prices of between £80 and £120 per cubic metre for C20. I imagine C7.5 will be less..
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: geoffr70 on 21 August 2011, 12:09:48
Ah that's a bit steep! I usually mix it myself, it's cheap and I enjoy the workout but for practical reasons I need ready mix. Sod it I've got the time I'll just mix it myself. I'll juts have to block the road off for a bit! (my road hahaha)

Thanks Aaron
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: aaronjb on 21 August 2011, 12:43:28
No worries - could be cheaper oop norf, I suppose ;)

I mixed ~3.5t of the stuff to backfill the pit in the garage - that was truly backbreaking! Wish I could have just bought readymix, really  ;D
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: geoffr70 on 21 August 2011, 13:50:23
I love concrete
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: albitz on 21 August 2011, 14:17:22
Having spent 20 years working with the stuff - I hate it with a passion. ;D
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: geoffr70 on 21 August 2011, 14:26:12
Someone at work got very serious chemical burns when mixing up his own concrete recently. Dropped some cement down his rigger style boots, then a few sweaty hours later ended up needing skin grafts on his feet. ouch.

I think it's great though, mixing it, pouring it, levelling it, and it looks like giant rice crispy cake mix.

Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: Varche on 21 August 2011, 15:30:59
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Someone at work got very serious chemical burns when mixing up his own concrete recently. Dropped some cement down his rigger style boots, then a few sweaty hours later ended up needing skin grafts on his feet. ouch.

I think it's great though, mixing it, pouring it, levelling it, and it looks like giant rice crispy cake mix.

Have you thought of moving to Spain? As far as I can make out the whole country (including the mountains) is made out of concrete of one sort or another. It will be a nice place when it is finished. :y

In fact I could do with a resident concreter. Got two cu m of lightweight concrete to lay next week but plenty of standard concreting to do. Applicant must be fit and prepared to work tirelessly in temperatures over 36 Deg C. Is that really you Geoff?
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: aaronjb on 21 August 2011, 15:40:48
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Someone at work got very serious chemical burns when mixing up his own concrete recently. Dropped some cement down his rigger style boots, then a few sweaty hours later ended up needing skin grafts on his feet. ouch

It's pretty caustic stuff (well, cement is) .. then again I was scooping it onto the shovel with my bare hands when I was doing it  ;D

I've definitely seen enough to last me a lifetime, though!

[edit] Having said that, I love it as a building material - I have a strange soft spot for architecture consisting largely of concrete (e.g. a lot of brutalist architecture). Though it invariably ends up looking dingy and dirty in the UK.
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: Richie London on 21 August 2011, 16:40:15
wish i did ready mix when i did that driveway last year, back breaking and nearly 80 bags of cement on top of god knows how amny ballast. my scrotums replaced my tonsils i had removed  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: Varche on 21 August 2011, 17:36:20
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wish i did ready mix when i did that driveway last year, back breaking and nearly 80 bags of cement on top of god knows how amny ballast. my scrotums replaced my tonsils i had removed  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

You got a lot of balls saying that  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: mantahatch on 21 August 2011, 19:59:34
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No worries - could be cheaper oop norf, I suppose ;)

I mixed ~3.5t of the stuff to backfill the pit in the garage - that was truly backbreaking! Wish I could have just bought readymix, really  ;D


Sorry to sound stupid here but did you fill the entire hole with concrete ?

I would of filled with hardcore and then put about 4 to 6 inches of concrete on the top.
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 21 August 2011, 20:47:56
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Someone at work got very serious chemical burns when mixing up his own concrete recently. Dropped some cement down his rigger style boots, then a few sweaty hours later ended up needing skin grafts on his feet. ouch

It's pretty caustic stuff (well, cement is) .. then again I was scooping it onto the shovel with my bare hands when I was doing it  ;D

I've definitely seen enough to last me a lifetime, though!

[edit] Having said that, I love it as a building material - I have a strange soft spot for architecture consisting largely of concrete (e.g. a lot of brutalist architecture). Though it invariably ends up looking dingy and dirty in the UK.

The Pantheon in Rome has the largest unreinforced concrete dome..... in the world! :y and it was built by the Romans! Now thats cool! 8-)
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: aaronjb on 21 August 2011, 20:57:39
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No worries - could be cheaper oop norf, I suppose ;)

I mixed ~3.5t of the stuff to backfill the pit in the garage - that was truly backbreaking! Wish I could have just bought readymix, really  ;D


Sorry to sound stupid here but did you fill the entire hole with concrete ?

I would of filled with hardcore and then put about 4 to 6 inches of concrete on the top.

Sorry I should have said 'backfill around the pit' :) Sank a fibreglass pit liner into the garage floor, so had to fill the void around the outside of that - only a few inches thick in most places (bit thicker in a couple where too much got dug out of the sides) but a fair area to fill by hand.
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: mantahatch on 22 August 2011, 07:33:48
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No worries - could be cheaper oop norf, I suppose ;)

I mixed ~3.5t of the stuff to backfill the pit in the garage - that was truly backbreaking! Wish I could have just bought readymix, really  ;D


Sorry to sound stupid here but did you fill the entire hole with concrete ?

I would of filled with hardcore and then put about 4 to 6 inches of concrete on the top.

Sorry I should have said 'backfill around the pit' :) Sank a fibreglass pit liner into the garage floor, so had to fill the void around the outside of that - only a few inches thick in most places (bit thicker in a couple where too much got dug out of the sides) but a fair area to fill by hand.


Ahh understood, thought I must have misread it.  :y
Title: Re: What is the price of ready mix concrete
Post by: aaronjb on 22 August 2011, 10:23:20
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Ahh understood, thought I must have misread it.  :y

 :y

It was still damned hard work ;D especially when we ran out of the bulk bags of ballast and had to go & buy more in the 25Kg bags.. 12 of those don't half make the back end of the Omega sink down! I think the self levelling ran out of self levelling ;D

Now all I need to do is float the garage floor flat and lay some rubber tiles down.. yay, more cement!  ;D