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Found it very handy for working out what's needed
What's everyone paying
It's costing me £94 for C35
What's everyone paying
It's costing me £94 for C35
Mix it yourself for about 60Found it very handy for working out what's needed
What's everyone paying
It's costing me £94 for C35
Yes,but when you buy ready mixed concrete it comes with a ticket that tells you everything important about that mix. Something goes wrong and you have a good indication of why. Mix it yourself and all of a sudden the few pounds saved pale into insignificance.Mix it yourself for about 60
2.35 a bag
ballast 13.50 a ton
labour f.a
So how much it that / cube m?
Probably true to a certain extent but quarries here operate under similar rules. One of the main reasons is that we have a better supply of good quality aggregate and in general companies here accept a lower profit margin.Now we learn why pre-cast concrete products come across the water for less than we can make them. The main culprit is our government with their environmental controls, from planning applications through aggregate taxes and extraction controls to fuel used; and people wonder why the Westminster village gets a kicking!
You ain't seen nothing yet!
So how much it that / cube m?
what he said£54/cube using roscoes figures,was costing me £64/cube to mix my own (wish I could get cement at £2.35/bag,was costing me near £110/t in bulk bags),readymix is £85/cube round here.
Cement is 2.99 per bag here in sunny Essex if you buy 9 tonnes at once, my head man had a day off, the cement (which he didn't know I had ordered) was delivered that day.what he said
Cement is 2.99 per bag here in sunny Essex if you buy 9 tonnes at once, my head man had a day off, the cement (which he didn't know I had ordered) was delivered that day.
I told him not to look in that shed, he still did, now wants a holiday for some reason.
Didn't tell him that we would need another 6 tonnes to finish the job either, I think I will leave that till he has calmed down a bit.
I got 3 tonnes for £2.68/bag in March, last year got 28 tonnes for £2.19/bag delivered to west Suffolk. Southern Cement at Felixstowe, both through a buying group. I paid £15.75/t for aggregate though
That's a big bit of concrete, are you building a runway? I worried about some of the quality that I got when not on named brands, what brand was this cheap stuff?
Aggregate is a bit pricey round here, cheaper if you go and get it of course but then all sorts of hassle with weighbridge, sheeting loads, permits and of course punctures if you wander in with a tractor and trailer.