OT: Concrete Prices

[Horny4TCU]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

 

[Wexahu]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

That sounds crazy high to me.

 

[Ron Swanson]

I don’t know ship about concrete prices but I’m interested in the conversation because I eventually want to add a patio to my backyard as well

 

[Pharm Frog]

Just went out to bid for concrete parking lot at the church. Should know by next week but I’m hearing that it’s gonna be very high.

 

[Horny4TCU]

That sounds crazy high to me.

Me too, but the thing is I have never worked with or quoted concrete before... So I have no basis for reference. Could be good, for all I know.

 

[PO Frog]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

I got quoted less than that for about double the size last week.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Me too, but the thing is I have never worked with or quoted concrete before... So I have no basis for reference. Could be good, for all I know.

I’ve learned to get at least 4 bids for every job I have done, and let each contractor know that you are getting multiple bids. Contractors prices vary wildly.

I think many of them just assume that the average homeowner doesn’t know a damn thing about how much services should cost, and they also assume that the average homeowner isn’t going out and getting a bunch of bids, so they just go in with crazy high margins and hope they get lucky.

 

[Eight]

two clarifying questions.

1) do you want this base to be level?

2) do you want this base cracking and chipping in five years like allen's football stadium?

no idea if that is a good price, but remember that you are paying for more than the materials

 

[Hoosierfrog]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

You might use this as a ballpark calculator...

https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-prices.html

 

[HFrog1999]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

If you’re thinking about a patio, look into pavers. They are much more attractive and very easy to repair when the soil shifts.

Check out these guys. I used to sell them.


https://precisionpavers.com/our-story/

If you do get pavers, don’t use Belgard, those are the jerks that laid me off in 2016. Go with Pavestone.

 

[BrewingFrog]

You might use this as a ballpark calculator...

https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-prices.html

Good site!

I am, one of these days, going to replace my thick-as-a-beer-can storage barn that came with Rancho Brewingfrog with a proper steel barn with panel doors and lots of room. Having built a few of these back in my previous life, I know the slab is the priciest item on the shopping list.

 

[Frognosticator]

Where’s Earl from Mesquite? I would value his opinion.

 

[helcap]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

Depends who is buried in it

 

[Eight]

Depends who is buried in it

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

Is $4,800 a good price for a 400sqft. concrete slab? Looking to install 40x10 rectangle in the backyard for a patio base.

If it's 10' deep, yep.

Edit. That's fairly small. If you can find a reputable company that can use overage from another job, you'll be fine if you can be flexible time wise. Done this a couple of times.

 

[What Up Toad]

Me too, but the thing is I have never worked with or quoted concrete before... So I have no basis for reference. Could be good, for all I know.

 

[82 Frog Fever]

For $4,800, it’s worth another quote or two.
Otherwise you’ll be sitting on your slab drinking a nice cold beer one of these evenings, and you’ll be thinking, “I wonder if I paid too much”
....and that sucks.

 

[BrewingFrog]

See: Connelly, Michael The Concrete Blonde

 

[PO Frog]

I asked my pool contractor to throw a driveway extension into the bid and she said her concrete guy will do it for $2.50 a foot. Feels like a damn good deal and less than a quarter of what you were quoted.

 

[Horny4TCU]

See: Connelly, Michael The Concrete Blonde

wasn't expecting a book...

more so something like this: