Approx cost of concrete base ?

[mangled_us]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what I should expect to pay a professional to lay a

6x4 foot concrete base for a metal shed bike shed ? I'm darn sarf if that helps.

Thanks,

David

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dug out as well?

Prolly a days work or less..£180?

[Phil L]

Plus the cost of the concrete, DPM.

[Phil L]

Why not just go to b&q and get six 600X600 slabs and lay two rows of three on a tenners worth of sand/cement.

Total cost less than £50

[David]

That's nearly what I did. But I was silly enough to get 600x900 slabs free off Freecycle and then lay them. The result was great, but the process nearly killed me.

David

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yerrs. Sometimes paying a Man is cheaper than the physiotherapy to be able to straighten up again..

[David]

Absolutely. Just getting the things up the steps into the garden looked impossible until the nice bloke from next door who happens to work for a marble worktop company appeared... I think he had heard SWMBO telling me that I hadn't thought it through. I hadn't...

[js.b1]

Lightest solution: Tannalised wood box perimeter, partly sunk into the ground, infill with gravel so free draining.

Light paved solution: Block paving is ideal, if necessary in a tannalised wood box perimeter.

Absolutely avoid 3'x2'x2in because they combine ridiculous weight, ridiculous reach & ridiculous mechanical advantage from a spinal point of view. The further something is from your body, the lighter it should be. You may be able to walk a heavy block or stone, but setting it down moves the spine into very a disadvantageous position and in particular through a range of motion where even a minor previous injury will rear its head.

[Jules Richardson]

I moved around ten of those in the back of a Corsa once... lifting them in was a sod, as was lifting them out again. Car didn't exactly thank me, either. Having a few bits of scrap metal bar with bent-over tips works wonders for dragging them around and shifting them into place, though.

cheers

Jules

[Jim K]

yup - relayed 20m2 patio including some huge 3' X 3' X 4" stone mill flags this summer - sack truck, long bars (5ft) to lever the feckers in/up/down as necess. hard but not impossible

Cheers Jim K

[dennis]

When they laid the slabs in front of my house unevenly it was a little old bloke that looked about 65 who came along to level them. He would pick one end up with his left hand and then level under them with spade. I think people that shy away from 3x2 slabs are just wimps like me.

[Dave]

That would depend on the soil that they are being laid on. If it was very peaty, expect it to sink. If it was clay, it would last a lot longer.

Dave

[Dave]

It is when you are 64 and thin and puny :-(

Medway Handyman is the size person that is needed for this job.

Dave

[ARWadsworth]

So you are a wimp then?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Other way round. Clay moves all over the bloody place.

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

You're not a wimp, you're a retard

[Mark]

LOL he can't even pickup a size 8 blond on his own 

[ARWadsworth]

I'll lend him one if he needs one.

[Rick Hughes]

I have 150m2 of Indian Sandstone down as Patio ... and the 3' x 2' size were up to 3" thick ... hard enough lifting them out of the crates ... heavy material

[Steve Walker]

I helped a friend fix his car some years go and I found that I could move the engine (and ancillaries) along the drive by straddling it and shuffling along slowly. When we'd got it from the scrapyard, they guy had said to call him when it was unbolted ... he leant in ripped it out and holding it out in front of him asked where we wanted it!!!

SteveW

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