How Would You Pour A Sidewalk

cbelawn

with less than 2 yards needed would you mix it ( i have a mixer ) or call a truck and pay the truck charge.?

Tscarborough

What is the delivery charge for the bagged cement? It is probably the same as the truck charge. If I were picking it up, I would use my mixer.

mdshunk

When I need small amounts of concrete for a light post base or an equipment pad, I use a meter mix concrete supplier. No minimums, only pay for what you use... nice. The dry ingredients and the water are mixed right as they come off the truck. I understand that this is not available in all areas.

Teetorbilt

2 yds. is hard to get here. You usually get 'tailings' and have to work really fast.

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house bldr

I always figure by the time I load and haul my mixer to the job,pick up the portland and load and haul the mixing sand, then the labor to mix it, you might as well pay the delivery charge and have it over with!

CJKarl

X2 That's what I do around here.

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tkle

Depends how busy I am.

tgeb

Here the trucks have a 2 yard minimum.

I have paid the minimum dozens of times, Bagged mixing is not consistent enough.

The quality of the truck mix is better I think. This time of year the redi-mix plant adds hot water to help the mix "set up". You could wait all day for bagged mix to set enough to finish. Pay the extra.

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Mike Finley

Those services are the sh*t. Best thing ever created for the small jobber. Last one I used was for a shed base for a friend, takes all the brain work out it, just keep loading the wheel barrow, when you're done, the trucks done.

stacker

im glad this subject came up.i am writing a new book and working on a fox special."if i had poured the sidewalk,i would have done it like this" i hope to have it out by the new years.

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tkle

I'd read Stacker's book,sub out the pour,then tell them their doing it all wrong cause I read it a different way...

OsNap

Yea go with the redi-mix.