Concrete

[luvrbus]

Anyone pouring a concrete slab to park your bus on ? as Red Foxx would It will give you the big one. Oh well this what we get when the English,Irish and Mexican Co's control our concrete products .$173.00 a yard and a 5 yard min. in Globe and a cement plant is located there owned by CEMEX of Mexico  geezz

[DoubleEagle]

It takes energy to crush the rock, sift the sand, and make the Portand, and then to transport it all in an expensive truck. It could be worse. I have mixed my own with a portable mixer, but the materials are a big chunk of the cost, so you don't save a lot. It is good exercise though, especially if you mix it and finish it yourself, that is where the savings are. Concrete will make you or break you, one way or another.

[luvrbus]

Concrete is a 4 letter word it should be "WORK "the green deal shutting down the coal powered electric generators are not helping Flyash is expensive now where it was used in concrete to get rid of it.I was reading in Contactors magazine you can pour a 1/4 mile of 8 inch paving now for the same cost as a mile cost in 2000 ,Last paving job I done in 2000 I got $19.00 a sq. yard now a 4 inch patio will cost you $8.00 a sq ft it never ends,I have had some contracts where  river rock was spec no crushed rock,some crushed rock depends how old and deep the pit is the rock is too soft

[dtcerrato]

We own a portable mixer and do our own if under the minimum delivered. I agree what Walter said - it could be a lot worse.

[sledhead]

I had 2 floors poured last year and had to wait 8 and 1/2 weeks to get the concrete and they only gave my guy notice at 4 pm the day before they showed up . cost on 39 meters ( 46.8 sq yards ) was $10,800. plus tax

way way more then it should have cost but what can you do

[luvrbus]

I had 2 floors poured last year and had to wait 8 and 1/2 weeks to get the concrete and they only gave my guy notice at 4 pm the day before they showed up . cost on 39 meters ( 46.8 sq yards ) was $10,800. plus tax

way way more then it should have cost but what can you do

That is some expensive flat concrete work there.A few years ago my neighbor was pouring a small patio (78 sf ft) 4 inches thick and ask me to come and tell him how much concrete to order and measure it and told a yard would be enough.Here we have company with dry batch trucks  that will mix it on site for small jobs they wanted $250.00 to come mix it.He decided that was too much he was going to rent a mixer from HD and buy Sakcrete I told not too but he did it anyways.59 bags of Sakcrete at $6.50 a bag, a mixer for 2 days at $100.00 plus his time lol he calls it his gold patio he was over $600.00 with no labor

[windtrader]

You can swap the word concrete for anything and get the same point. Wife just bought a pack of hot dog buns - more than 5 bucks. WTF! lol

[luvrbus]

You can swap the word concrete for anything and get the same point. Wife just bought a pack of hot dog buns - more than 5 bucks. WTF! lol

You didn't buy the hot dogs to go on the buns for $.99 now either.

[Melbo]

Clifford

That may be true you didn't pay 99 cents BUT I bought some the other day and the buns were twice the price of the hot dogs.  Doesn't get any stranger than that to me when the bread for the sandwich cost more than the meat in it.  Kind of like more to pour the slab than to buy the bus you are going to park on it.

Melbo

[luvrbus]

Clifford

That may be true you didn't pay 99 cents BUT I bought some the other day and the buns were twice the price of the hot dogs.  Doesn't get any stranger than that to me when the bread for the sandwich cost more than the meat in it.  Kind of like more to pour the slab than to buy the bus you are going to park on it.

Melbo

Same Mexican Co. (Bimbo) that owns all the bread co.'s here sell a loaf of bread for $1.00 in Mexico food prices suck ,I don't grill burgers.for $3.00 at Sprit Mountain Casnio I can buy a double patty burger and all the free coke I can drink I can't make a burger for 3 bucks lol for another buck I can get fries too   

[Jim Blackwood]

And they are still trying to claim that we have no inflation.

[dtcerrato]

Heck that balloon popped a long time ago, but what I don't understand is the balloon keeps getting bigger! 

[windtrader]

On a brigther note, I just say lumber prices dropping a lot. I think it was upwards of $1700, now around $500.

[luvrbus]

On a brigther note, I just say lumber prices dropping a lot. I think it was upwards of $1700, now around $500.

They need to get rid of the lumber that was stocked pile for 2 years now,oil is down to $72.00 lol it will go up since Biden said he was going to replace the 220 million sold from SPR when it reached $72.00 lol that's not happening the Dept of Enegry dosen't have 15 billion in funds 

[bobofthenorth]

We're doing some neverending renos in the basement so when the pandemic hit I thought "I'll just work in the cellar for a while". That came to a screeching halt when they wanted $2 per board foot for crappy spruce sticks. I phoned the local Co-op one day and asked for a dry wall price (sheetrock for you guys). She said something - 19 bux maybe - to which I replied "Is that for a bundle" "No, that's per sheet"  So the project isn't progressing very fast.  Might as well pay airfare to Mexico as get raped at the lumber yard.  Mexico is more fun.