General-Lee
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- Devon
Anyone know the going rate for a ton cement? And how easy is it to get hold of?
Cement prices
- Thread starter General-Lee
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a cube or actual powder in bags? we get concrete at £65 a cube from here but are right next door,as for the plonkers complaining the blasting is feck all the cattle dont even raise there heads now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23409198
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23409198
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Got it for £88/ton £2.20 a bag when we bought 28 tons!
General-Lee
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- Devon
Yeah sorry small bags, paying £4 individually at the moment.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
How many bags do you need?
SilliamWhale
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Wickes would sell it to you for £3.83 incl VAT so thats £3.20 a bag. I have thought you should be able to get your local merchants to do it for £3 bag maybe with pestering. That's £120/t.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Most merchants won't entertain the wickes prices, I think they use It as a loss leader.
Sandy
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- Aberdeenshire
Can get it bulk at £100/t
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- Devon
where abouts in devon are you based @General-Lee
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General-Lee
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- Devon
28 tons?!
don't need that much only got 16 tonnes of aggregate! Just outside Exeter.
Dad's like a little kid at the moment! Picked up a pto mixer from eBay couple weeks ago which he's got running, lorry load of aggregate...he's loving it!
Would get a load of premix, but doing lots of odds and sods around.
pto mixer?hope its a pan mixer or you will be on the wrong end of a shovel28 tons?!
Just outside Exeter.
Dad's like a little kid at the moment! Picked up a pto mixer from eBay couple weeks ago which he's got running, lorry load of aggregate...he's loving it!
Would get a load of premix, but doing lots of odds and sods around.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
28 tons?!
Just outside Exeter.
Dad's like a little kid at the moment! Picked up a pto mixer from eBay couple weeks ago which he's got running, lorry load of aggregate...he's loving it!
Would get a load of premix, but doing lots of odds and sods around.
We've only got a couple of tons left over, might be cost effective to send you a ton on a carrier?
General-Lee
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- Devon
Unfortunately not grumpy, so we may end up with a shovel wrapped round our ears holes!!pto mixer?hope its a pan mixer or you will be on the wrong end of a shovel
Trouble is the carriage would kill it?!
General-Lee
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- Devon
Nope give me a clue??
ffs a ton of cement powder equates to 3 ton of cement if going with 3 to 1 ratio or if yer a ticht git 4 to 1
General-Lee
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- Devon
Haha that's all you meant!!
Dads digging out the dirt/ brick rubble cubicles and concreting them out, amongst other things. And I'm doing stuff in my lambing shed and putting a handling system in. Probably between the two ratios
better than my grandad he likes to through bricks, stones etc to eke out a mix!!
- Location
- Devon
Give ashmead a ring at willand, will probably deliver to Exeter, can book it through mvf and I would be surprised if they can't give a very competitive price.28 tons?!
Just outside Exeter.
Dad's like a little kid at the moment! Picked up a pto mixer from eBay couple weeks ago which he's got running, lorry load of aggregate...he's loving it!
Would get a load of premix, but doing lots of odds and sods around.
- Location
- Devon
Sounds like a 1 and plenty mix your granddad did
Devon James
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- Devon
Nothing better than laying concrete and improving the place!