Price of a small load of ready mixed concrete?

[happypeter]

Hi,
I'm looking to order 1.3 m3 of concrete for a shed base. A quick google search tells me the average price is £75 per m3 plus delivery (from checkatrade link below). So I'm thinking about £200. I've had 2 quotes and both have been over £450.

Am I being over quoted? I'm based in Birmingham

thanks

https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/cost-guides/ready-mix-concrete-cost/

 

[lostinthelight]

Have you considered mixing yourself, 1.3m3 isnt that much to mix

 

[JohnD]

You'd need to hire a mixer, unless you have a strong wife.

Also, look at the mix-and-barrow companies.

 

[opps]

£200?

For a small load you have delivery costs, you also have to factor in the cost of the guy waiting whilst you and possibly two other people wheelbarrow the concrete in. In my limited experience, they will provide two wheelbarrows. If you have to walk it 15(?)m, the guy on the truck will have to sit there waiting for you to come back for a top up. Someone has to pay for his time.

Hiring a cement mixer will be cheaper but you have to factor the other costs in.

 

[happypeter]

Have you considered mixing yourself, 1.3m3 isnt that much to mix

Are you sure? can one person and a mixer get that done in a day?
2.3 tonne of ballast and 11 bags of cement by my reckoning

 

[lostinthelight]

Are you sure? can one person and a mixer get that done in a day?
2.3 tonne of ballast and 11 bags of cement by my reckoning

Have done it on numerous occasions , it works out at 10 - 12 mixes per ton, 10mins a mix.
Get yourself organized with half a dozen builders buckets, a dustbin full of water to bucket it out of , a hose is useless for fast mixing, and get through mix aggregate

 

[happypeter]

Have done it on numerous occasions , it works out at 10 - 12 mixes per ton, 10mins a mix.
Get yourself organized with half a dozen builders buckets, a dustbin full of water to bucket it out of , a hose is useless for fast mixing, and get through mix aggregate

 

[happypeter]

Thanks you'd convinced me to do it myself, £200 materials, £30 mixer hire...but then.. I had one final quote come back £255 all in for concrete delivered and barrowed to where I need it. Can't argue with that

 

[lostinthelight]

Thanks you'd convinced me to do it myself, £200 materials, £30 mixer hire...but then.. I had one final quote come back £255 all in for concrete delivered and barrowed to where I need it. Can't argue with that

Win Win! then, can't fault it

 

[opps]

last year I needed scaffolding for a single lift of scaffolding on a terrace house. The guys I was hoping to use were to busy. I used Google, the first two quotes were £900. I eventually got it for £250 cash from a recommended scaffolder.