Concreting

Location
Cleveland
I put 7,8,9 or 10 bags in my 0.75 cubic metre machine. Per mix

Dust now £3.25 (for a small order of 1 pallet, bought some today to finish a job.
Rough working out here but if 10 bags of cement does 0.75 of a cube then roughly 13 bags per cube @ about £4.50 a bag =£58.50 per cube then you have your sand gravel and water to add..... you can get RC45 for £81 a meter
 
Cement is a building staple and as such the merchants don't make a big markup on it. If I ordered an artic load rather than a pallet I wouldn't significantly better the price other than the haulage part.
The OP question is perhaps area specific. Around here the materials cost at approaches the cost of ready-mix. Then of course you need to account the cost of your labour
 

Sunny Suffolk

New Member
Quinn's is pretty bargain bucket but for most DIY jobs there's nothing wrong with it. Blue Circle or Hanson/Castle Multicem cost a bit more but worth paying for jobs you that are going to take a beating over the years. If buying in bulk you can still get decent cement for £3 per bag before VAT
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Cement is a building staple and as such the merchants don't make a big markup on it. If I ordered an artic load rather than a pallet I wouldn't significantly better the price other than the haulage part.
The OP question is perhaps area specific. Around here the materials cost at approaches the cost of ready-mix. Then of course you need to account the cost of your labour

I think you're right, a merchant quoted me £3.30 for a pallet this week, I phoned for an artic load from a company recommended on here and they wanted £3.20. I don't know if I was speaking to the right person, but she wouldn't shift.
 

Pennine Ploughing

Member
Mixed Farmer
why not get a local volumemetric (spelling) firm to come on site and just mix what you want there and then, for 5 cub you will have to go get the cement etc to mix it yourself, along with the time mixing it etc,
in the long run it wont cost that much more, and you could save a day trailing about and doing it, they will mix it as you want it, and also just as much as you want, nothing short and nothing left over
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
why not get a local volumemetric (spelling) firm to come on site and just mix what you want there and then, for 5 cub you will have to go get the cement etc to mix it yourself, along with the time mixing it etc,
in the long run it wont cost that much more, and you could save a day trailing about and doing it, they will mix it as you want it, and also just as much as you want, nothing short and nothing left over
Ime you might aswell order a readymix load and throw a cube away, the only benefit with them is that they'll wait.
 

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