Concrete Slab Costs 2021

daesal wrote: »

Hello
I going to put in a concrete slab 14m x 14m x 152mm (6")
Im finding it hard to get rough priceing on this.
What would be the cost to have this laid?

Thanks

It’ll take 30 cubic meters of concrete. Not sure of what concrete is at the minute as last summer since I last priced it but gonna guess it’ll be close enough to €100 a metre incl vat so €3k for concrete. Then it depends on what work you have to do beforehand but as a total stab in the dark a €1000 including gravel, machinery, hire of whacker, labour. Labour on the pour of the slab assuming you would be getting 2 fellas. A slab is normally a straight forward pour so 4 hours so €200 for the two boys.

Not including you might have to buy timber to form it up, are you putting in expansion joints or cutting it afterwards???

Hope that helps.

Concrete expands and contracts depending on temperature and Expansion joints are essentially a cut in the concrete that allow for this and it stops concrete cracking afterwards.

A cut would be done with a consaw once concrete is set and is simply cutting a line about 2 inches deep across the width of the slab. Alternatively you buy plastic diamond shaped lenghts that you’d set in the concrete which you’d screed to the top of them and they allow for the contract/expanding - you’d get them in any hardware.

Just google this and you’ll get all you need.

cute geoge wrote: »

4 loads of conco and you expect 2 lads to screed it for E200 in 4 hours come on be a bit more realistic to a lad pouring his 1st load of readymix .my advice have your ground ready and forms up order 1st load for 9 am and 2 nd load for 12 am and repeat the 2nd day no pressure

2 savage concrete workers here do jobs like that of a Saturday. They would pour that in the one day and charge €150 per man. They work for a local concrete firm in Dublin all week so Saturday is their day to get a few euros to go down deep in the pocket for just them.

Grueller wrote: »

2 savage concrete workers here do jobs like that of a Saturday. They would pour that in the one day and charge €150 per man. They work for a local concrete firm in Dublin all week so Saturday is their day to get a few euros to go down deep in the pocket for just them.

That’d be my thinking too.

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Quoted 8k for 50x 80 slab today
Going down over existing slab
It is 100x 50 but there's 20 ft of silage left that won't be used this year, we'll just concrete up to it

There’s about 56 metres of concrete (at 6” depth) so that’s going to be circa €6k before you start. Is the price of timber to form it included in that price. If it is an all-in price, it mightn’t be too far off.

There’s another thread on here about rising costs.

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Quoted 8k for 50x 80 slab today
Going down over existing slab
It is 100x 50 but there's 20 ft of silage left that won't be used this year, we'll just concrete up to it

TAMS had grants for resurfacing silage pits.

Dunedin wrote: »

It’ll take 30 cubic meters of concrete. Not sure of what concrete is at the minute as last summer since I last priced it but gonna guess it’ll be close enough to €100 a metre incl vat so €3k for concrete. Then it depends on what work you have to do beforehand but as a total stab in the dark a €1000 including gravel, machinery, hire of whacker, labour. Labour on the pour of the slab assuming you would be getting 2 fellas. A slab is normally a straight forward pour so 4 hours so €200 for the two boys.

Not including you might have to buy timber to form it up, are you putting in expansion joints or cutting it afterwards???

Hope that helps.

Probably come in 4 loads and you expect a load of concrete to be leveled and screeded for 50 quid, no wonder those 2 boys are flat out but there boddies must be wrecked or else they are wetting it up and its self leveling. I would be looking at getting 4 good lads for the poar 2 leveling and 2 screaning and give them 250 a day each.

Grueller wrote: »

The right lads with good equipment and it's no bother. The 2 lads that work here arrive with a magic screed, power screed and a few other bits. The days of 2 lads hanging out of a timber are finished around here anyhow and no harm either.

So they're charging 150 a day providing all the gear, they'll be busy fools for the rest of their lives

Stihl waters wrote: »

So they're charging 150 a day providing all the gear, they'll be busy fools for the rest of their lives

Correct, A plumber or sparks wouldn't get out of there van for 150 euro and they expect an experiences concrete worker to slave all day for 150. I seen it down these parts where a Lad was putting in paths around his house got a couple of loads, good few lads there none of them done concrete before, really hot day concrete going off quick major panic, The last driver saved the day and fuccked them all out of his way and got some bit of a finish on it.

kerryjack wrote: »

Probably come in 4 loads and you expect a load of concrete to be leveled and screeded for 50 quid, no wonder those 2 boys are flat out but there boddies must be wrecked or else they are wetting it up and its self leveling. I would be looking at getting 4 good lads for the poar 2 leveling and 2 screaning and give them 250 a day each.

You can do a lot with a laser level and a rake if concrete is loose enough
Run of a bull float across it them

Grueller wrote: »

The gear belongs to their boss who doesn't mind them doing Saturday work with it

So what would happen if it had to be done on Tuesday, you're not comparing like with like, 2 lads on a nixer isn't the same as s self employed lad with wages and gear to pay for, I'm 220 a day plus vat per man for any job I do and i do a lot of concrete in the summer, I'll do it a bit cheaper for cash but fcuk breaking my back at concrete for a pittance

cute geoge wrote: »

Thats is an honest answer anyway .
Can I ask how much would you charge for the likes of the job above if no major leveling was required but set up forms

880 plus vat for tamp finish concrete

Stihl waters wrote: »

So what would happen if it had to be done on Tuesday, you're not comparing like with like, 2 lads on a nixer isn't the same as s self employed lad with wages and gear to pay for, I'm 220 a day plus vat per man for any job I do and i do a lot of concrete in the summer, I'll do it a bit cheaper for cash but fcuk breaking my back at concrete for a pittance

I am not looking for an argument horse. Just saying who I use here, what they charge and their circumstances. There are lads like this in most parishes and I was basically advising the OP to stay away from concrete and pay somebody who is actually set up to do it. The labour is a pittance compared to the value of the materials that you can potentially make a ball cocks of if not properly set up.

Grueller wrote: »

Unless of course you are taking in a bit of cash elsewhere and want to use it up.

I’d be putting cash to something that I can’t get any tax relief on. Holidays, groceries etc.

Stihl waters wrote: »

880 plus vat for tamp finish concrete

How many men would you have on such a job?