Rock Removal

Nac

Here is a job I just started. We hit bedrock and this stuff is hard (Fort Lee, NJ) the blasting company say it about 550 CY of rock.

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Bob Kovacs

Yeowch! Welcome to northern NJ...lol. That's gonna be one expensive basement if you take that stuff out- have they considered losing the basement and going with a slab-on-grade?

Bob

Mike Finley

When I first saw the picture I thought - damn that looks nice, about 100 hours short of one hell of a nice water feature!

A+Carpenter

Yea no doubt huh? Lose the basement and go with a slab.

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Nac

They definitly want a basement. I have a price from a blasting company about 55,000

Cole

Yowza!!!

That is a lot of rock!

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A+Carpenter

I would make it 57k and call it good for the down time your incured while on the job. I know some stuff is unforseen but compensation is what makes it better.

There is nothing wrong with making any money on top of another company if you handle all the addvice to the homeowner being that you uncovered the loot.

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PipeGuy

How many SF of slab is the basement? Are they gonna' hammer it or blast it? Does that include haul off?
At 8' deep 550 CY is an 1856 SF basement. That's a little bigger than a 40 x 45 foot print. If you let me know wht the $55K includes I might be able to help get your cost down.

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Nac

Well th footprint is 40x82 and then you have about 20x 40 for the garages unexcavated. It is a 9'8" cut to the bottom of footing 8'8" clear basement ceiling hieght. Also there is a 3' overcut around the perimeter. That price included drilling blasting and hauling.

PipeGuy

If I'm understanding correctly you have 4080 SF of footprint to excavate 9-8" deep. That's about 1460 cubic yards. If all the excavation is rock, and it's all being hauled off, I'd say you have a very good thing going on.

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dayexco

i won't pull a sub on the job without a min. markup on them of 20%

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rino1494

$55,000 is alot of money. I am assuming it is that much because they are gonna have to bring in the mats. I could hammer that out for $10,000.....not including hauling.

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denick

It looks like your right in a populated area. Are there houses as close as the one that can be seen on all sides? How far from the street, water, sewer and gas lines?

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jmic

Nick,
Go find your glasses, clean them with some windex then look at the pictures again. Take a good look! Looks to me like he isn't farther than 35 feet or so from the road, and I'd guess that the utilities are right there also. Actually looks like are kind of lots in Greenwich. If you look at the 2nd pic it looks like our mini on the back of my truck.

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denick

Oh you've switched to Komatsu machines now! Or Maybe you didn't have your glasses on?

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Nick

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jmic

Touch'e!

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dayexco

to me, looks like a job for wolf. he likes that crunching, crashing, breaking, smashing

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Nac

The house to the rear is about 15' away the one to the right is 25'-35' away that price does also include hauling. Most lickly I am trying to do it my self I have a John Deere 550 with a 12,000 hammer comming for the day to clean up all the rock it can and then will be drilling and splitting with a expansive grout. I will probly by a 8' long rock drilling attachment to mount on my mini.

Nac

Here are some more pics of the site.

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denick

Nac,

What brought you to the way you are going to proceed? Was it price? or obstacles? or timing?

Good luck!

By the way you dig a nice clean cellar hole!

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