Sidewalk - Repair/Replace
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I can't remember, do batch plants have a 1 or 3 yard minimum? It might be easier to pay a couple hundred bucks for 1.5 yards of redi-mix and be done in 20 minutes.
I had a project where we had to pour 1 yard. My contractor did it all by hand mixing. Since he was on lump-sum, I let him go for it. The stack of Kwik-Crete was impressive.
That is what I am thinking too. You will be spending at least $100 on the material plus if you get a mixer. How much is your time and body pain worth?
I know you used to be able to get as little as one yard, but you had to take whatever was on the truck from a larger job.
That was my understanding from when a friend put a patio in his back yard. Had a couple of "false alarms" that he'd have a truck that day until one finally had the right amount left over to give him.
Well I got it done Saturday morning... 19 x 80 lb bags of quikrete (just as predicted by their concrete calculator) . I mixed it by hand in a wheelbarrow and it was definitely a 3 man job to do it by hand and keep production rolling along. I used the expansion strips at either end and a contraction joint in the middle. Not a job I would want to do every day but we got it done. Thanks for all the advice.
