Either pay 10k or do a driveway yourself. I chose diy.
For context, it's 30' by 18' by 6" and I've never formed, tied rebar, poured and finished. I've done some of each but never all together.
Contractor wanted 10k.
1 day rental of bobcat to degrass $300
Form and rebar #4 with 2' on center was $300
Concrete was 9.5 yards for $2000
Second truck was 3 yards for $600
Labor was $800
I saved 6k
How'd I do?
I like the 2 foot area where you tried to finish it and just said frick it, good enough π
Perfect is the enemy of good, and comparison is the thief of joy. It's not perfect, and I'm really happy to have learned something new.
Great approach, I've done some shit jobs for myself in the past but I learned a frick ton. As long as you learn, you win.
Couldn't agree more.
That's a great textured finish. You won't have to worry about slipping when it's wet or frozen
How so?
I think he is implying it is going to crack and go to shit this costing you $4k plus more to have it redone.
The contractor who bid the job told me after I said I was doing it myself "right on, don't worry how it looks. Two things I've learned in this trade after 20 years, women are going to b-word and concrete is going to Crack."
I live by a simple phrase, "you can have it fast, good or cheap. Pick two"
I chose fast and cheap, I know it ain't going to be good.
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It costs $2k for just the concrete for just that little driveway?
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Concrete has gotten r-slurred expensive
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Everything has, have you seen the price of lumber? Insane
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It always spikes around
day. People horde it in fear of the spirit of the kill dozer. Market levels out a bit after a month or two.
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Thanks Obiden
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Concrete is like $150/yd. And that's for commercial guys. Probably a lot more if you don't buy millions of dollars worth every year. Shits expensive.
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just mix it urself? if the fricking ancient romans can do it i'm sure this guy can
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Lol..lmao even. This guy has never even touched. Concrete.
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i laughed
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Touch concrete incel
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doesn't look too hard
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A small batch yeah but mixing for a slab pour is trickier because by the time you mix the last batch thr first one is starting to set so you'll have trouble spreading it
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gotta go fast
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It's not impossible, with 2 day laborers you could do it. Would just have to keep the previous pours wet
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Just kidnap 2 Mexicans from Home Depot
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Or make up formwork and pour it in multiple slabs so you can easily grade the top and get everything level (like OOP didn't)
Plus when one cracks you can just replace the one
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Little John can do it
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A single bag of concrete is like a 1/10th of a yd. This driveway is 5-6 yds. You'd be absolutely insane to try to mix all that from bags.
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I've done for a larger slab with high schoolers in Mexico. It's really not that hard.
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Child labor does make a lot of things simpler.
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why?
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Because that's 3000 lbs of concrete sacks you have to move.
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500 lbs cement. and 2000 lbs sand/gravel.
so difficult to move!
much easier to move 2500 lbs of pre-mixed concrete lol
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I just mix it in a shitty wheelbarrow for small shit
I probably wouldn't try to pour a whole fricking driveway without equipment, though
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well no, you can't spread concrete once it's hard
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omg
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I dare you to mix a yard of concrete on your own
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Rain? Antifreeze? Truly the British Isles aren't fit for human habitation
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Why are you measuring concrete by length
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It's cubic yards and I can only assume people just say yards because they're lazy.
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i'm more curious why my old water meter measured consumption in "hundreds of cubic feet"
like bro, is gallons really that difficult? 100ftΒ³ of water is 748 gallons
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Got me there.
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Claychads stay winning
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It's a lot bigger than it looks
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Fair, and it doesn't look that bad in that pic. It doesn't look new, but it looks like concrete.
Where does this guy live? Opposite a factory in the middle of nowhere?
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He says it's for some industrial purpose in Louisiana so yeah exactly that
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Latinx kings know their value
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It should have cost even more. He ran out and couldn't finish the build
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even cheaper is just throwing a load of gravel down
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This kills the freshly washed black car
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wash your car?
that's what rain is for
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Sorry you don't own nice things
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I got a S2000 which I think is kinda neat
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Nice paint. Would be a mighty big shame if some gravel chipped it
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I know a guy who had one
the second time the engine block cracked, he saved the old one to make into a coffee table
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Just say you're poor
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Buying a black car is a mistake you should only make once. It never looks good for more than 0.5 milliseconds.
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I was going to make use of my black car's downtime but I can't decide which direction to go, and the stupid video is taking up all of my time.
Do i do a good deep polish and buff, get the paint as close to factory as possibly,
Or do I just wrap the darn thing in a deep purple/red shade
It's a 3-row crossover so decently big, but also has a rather simple exterior design, no outrageous curves or pockets. No exposed rocker panel either, which is a plus.
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For shame
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still drive it like one. twin turbo with a 91-octane tune, 0-60 in 5.7 is pretty respectable for its class
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I love my car, but if I'd been able to get the exact same one in white instead of navy I'd have jumped on it. Darn thing always looks dusty
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i was darn near ready to drive to the dealer to buy an oreo model (white paint, black roof, black trim) but somebody bought it an hour prior :( so I ended up getting the black Canadian-spec one.
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Redditors are the type of cute twinks that think "learning something" is a good replacement for getting something done right. Plus, he didn't actually learn anything lol.
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Eh, looks fine for his trashy looking neighborhood
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It's not about the looks
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What do you imagine is going to happen here beyond it looking like shit?
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NoOOOoooOOOOOOoooOooO
NOT THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF A CONCRETE DRIVEWAY
If.... If it fails....
It might just be the exact same thing as a gravel one.... But that he can fix by pouring a bag of concrete in the crack. ...
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It's going to break badly
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I'm kinda hoping that he botched the foundation so it washes out and he gets a sinkhole
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My bet is is a roughly oval shaped piece of split concrete surrounded by large chunks of gravel in a few years
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Crack. There's no gravel underneath for drainage and I doubt he properly compacted the ground. That said it just a residential drive way so meh
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If you learn something but it's actually the wrong lesson, and you'll never use it again AND you think that's a good thing, you're a redditor
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Literally me, fr fr.
If I ever get bored from the interwebs, I am gonna undercut tradespeople and maybe even teenagers.
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He took their jerbs in bad faith
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Local tradesman is kinda based
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You can do anything a blue collar guy charges you for if you're willing to sacrifice 3x the time. Provided you're not an incompetent redditor.
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It's just a driveway, who cares?
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It's going to crack. Because it is off level he's got various thicknesses going on and the garbage finish means it will retail water. For a little more effort he could have had something passable.
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Amazing. Thank you for explaining just how serious the situation is.
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Well as long as it doesn't wholesale water.
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He will if he ever plans to sell the property. I don't put a ton of stock in βcurb appealβ for a house, but obnoxiously bad DIY work being the very first visual impression does not make for a good sale price
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Looking at the neighborhood, he's never heard of "curb appeal"
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If it needs to be replaced before he sells then it doesn't matter.
Besides, no one is selling when they essentially have mortgages with zero interest
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It's a problem now in 2024 at 7%+
It'll be a problem in 2030 at 3%
It's a problem if you own outright because every person who drives up will
Honestly there's just no good reason to do a shitty job on something as long lasting as a driveway. I have to beat my foid to stop her from ordering home materials from Amazon (China) constantly because the concept of build quality is so lost on her, just like this guy
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I sure hope he doesn't live in an area that gets more than zero days of freezing temperatures in a year
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He lives in Louisiana
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Then it's going to crack anyway. I say good work my man
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Me
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