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#1 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:32 pm

I have lawn at the front of my house would like it taking up and laid in concrete to extend my drive/parking
Would like 4 plain squares separated by lines of block paving
The area is 5meters x 6meters
How much would I be looking at in labour and materials to do this
Bear in mind it will have to take the weight of the truck so am I right in thinking 4 inches of concrete is minimum
Thanks in advance
Al

#2 by 123hotchef , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:34 pm

you could prep it all yourself and get a truck in to pour it mate

#3 by 123hotchef , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:34 pm

and for what it costs you could also put a wee bit off re-enforcing mesh in it

#4 by birdie , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:36 pm

6 inch would be better for a driveway

#5 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:36 pm

Yeah mate been there done that at my last house ten years ago
Don't want to do it myself this time not into digging and all that now
In that time of life where I just wanna come home and it be done lol

#6 by birdie , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:37 pm

Hire a mini digger.

#7 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:38 pm

Birdie was thinking six as for when jacking up truck ect

#8 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:40 pm

Quote: birdie wrote in post #6
Hire a mini digger.

The amount of damage I would cause with one of those

#9 by birdie , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:41 pm

Six would be a lot better, I wouldn't go less on a drive,especially for a pickup

#10 by 123hotchef , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:41 pm

go on u know u wanna

#11 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:43 pm

Need a pro job on this one nicky won't settle for less as it is the house we bought together

#12 by 123hotchef , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:48 pm

lol

I saw this company today doing a concrete drive but they made it look like dark grey block paving kinda engraved the concret looked great

#13 by surfer , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:50 pm

Seen some ads like that some have the wet look as well but it's bloody expensive though

#14 by 123hotchef , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:53 pm

I had never seen it before would not know about prices either.

I do know building materials keep going up though bricks and stuff have gone up 30% in the last 6 months

#15 by birdie , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:56 pm

I can lay a natural sandstone paved driveway for the same or less money than it costs to get a pattern imprinted concrete one

#16 by chaldon3 , Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:59 pm

it depends on the subsurface you concrete on 8 plus inch hard core whacked down, 6 inch concrete. all in 2500£
materials around 800

#17 by chaldon3 , Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:02 pm

printed concrete as they call it thousands. the concrete has fibres added to it ,

#18 by 4life-extreme , Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:40 pm

Quote: chaldon3 wrote in post #16
it depends on the subsurface you concrete on 8 plus inch hard core whacked down, 6 inch concrete. all in 2500£
materials around 800

Make sure you put a geotext down before your crushed hardcore especially if you have soft substrate such as clay or the hardcore will migrate into it

#19 by tigger , Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:08 am

Find a local Cowboy Builder type person! 2" of Tarmac straight over the grass will cost about £1500 CASH! and comes with a gate guarentee! Hope that helps

#20 by Dgjeynes , Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:37 am

6 inch of concrete is way over kill we lay 5 inches for all our farm building where they receive tons of weight over them I would say 4 inches would be plenty save yourself some money we all know how expensive stuff is nowadays

#21 by AD , Sat Apr 26, 2014 7:53 am

Do i right do it once, for what you save on the pour will cost you later. We always lay 150mm with added fibres for driveways on top of 150mm of dolomite wacked down with heavy vibrating plate. You should need 8 tonne of doli and 4.5 sq m of concrete.
Iv'e seen allot of bad creteprint drives wet look is very slippy when wet and iced up and the top comes of if you park in the same place. The heat from the hot tyres makes the silicone stick to the tyres then pulls off when you drive away leaving bare concrete.

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