[TowerTalk] Concrete Cost

[Mike Reublin NF4L]

Thanks, Wilson.

Good idea.

73, Mike NF4L

On Dec 24, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Wilson <infomet at embarqmail.com> wrote:

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> Les's cost seems over the top to me, but then he has a 2 call...
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> Les has about 8 yd, or around $1200 for concrete.
> How they got that to $4200, I'd like to hear.
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> Mike's hole is about 4 yd, or $600 for concrete.
> So $900 for all that digging and lugging is at least within imagination.
> Two guys will do it easily in a day, so they pay $100 or so for the wagon and make $400 each, or $50/hr.
> Not bad for manual labor.
> But a backhoe and operator are about $75/hr and he'll do that hole in an hour, easily, so I'd look at that too.
> 
> Call the ready mix plant to find the cost of concrete.  There's no telling what the contractor is adding.
> 
> I'm always optimistic, so maybe low on this, but you gotta shop around.
> Bids on staining my house ran from $2000-3850 and the $2000 guys did a very good job.
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> There are web based sites for getting bids and generating estimates.
> If you have different local costs, please post them for us all to see.
> 
> Wilson
> W4BOH
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