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427carl


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Asked a guy, to put in a pad, to set my RV trailer on  .. He called Friday, and showed up at 9am yesterday  finished at 5PM    never big enough  biggrin  18 ton of gravel underneath!!!!!

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looks big enough to keep the mother-in-law suite (steves term for anything the rolls for sleeping) on. congrats on the slab. i remember when i had my slab poured i couldn't believe the amount of soil they took out and then gravel they brought in.

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Looks good!

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Having paid recently for the slab for our shed, I feel your pain.

It would be nice to have the talent and equipment to do a person's own concrete work. However, the worst part for us was drilling down 25 feet to pour piers and then dump all that product down the hole!

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25 feet down!  wow    We dug down 2 feet, and ran into concrete and asphalt from 1975, when lot was backfilled by town...   18 ton of gravel, and we are good to go..  Hope to park trailer, on it this week.. I was surprised, that the concrete cures 50% in 7-10 days, and not fully for 28 days..He told me to keep 8000 lb trailer off  idea till Wednesday.. 33x14 =2925.00 plus tax plus gravel = $3300.00  guaranteed to last til ,day after my funeral..

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How thick? I just had dirt work, sand/gravel, concrete, and rebar for a garage pad poured 30x24x5''=$8300.

Had a couple quotes around that price, crazy.

People around here are making a killing on concrete work.

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4 inches  no rebar    !3283.45  start to finish    He probably felt bad for me when he say the old car in the garage    Actually he did our first pad in 05 for 12x24 was 1200.00 

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its gone up a bit in 4 years. my pad was (24 x 30) 6 in middle with rebar ($4500)

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We have to do piers here cause when our famous floods come through we are sunk, literally, if we don't have piers and lots of rebar. Our ground shifts a tremendous amount in a flood. People's basements do crazy things when there is water under them.

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the "joys"  of the Red River Valley?   ours are called "floating pads"   guess I should chain it, to the house!  biggrin

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Our basement is called a "structured floor", poured on styrofoam. It's a slab poured on about 22 piers if I recall right. The idea is that it won't be affected by shifting or excess seepage under it when the house gets surrounded by water and a lot seeps in to the weeping tile.

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Yeah depends where you are, what type of soil conditions, Carl your basement is done the right way, and will last forever... people/developers cut too many corners on homes being built, then people wonder why their basement walls have horiz cracks, or the floor heaves... then theres the good ol 'new home warranty' program to protect builders... dont even get me started!

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