Framed up and ready for concrete. Get premixed delivered or mix it myself? (120 sq ft/1.5 yards)?
Question:It's a 4 inch slab being poured in the back yard of a cul-de-sac lot. No way is a truck going to come close to the pouring site. So if it's delivered I'll have to wheel barrel the wet mix to the site, or lug 70+ bags of dry mix back there and mix it on site.
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trouble with mix yourself is you cannot mix enough to keep the job going before you wear out, then you have to use a 2x4 to tamp the cream to the top and rocks to the bottom, if you have 5 friends with 4-5 cubic foot wheel barrows, have a truck come in and wheel barrow it,, I have also rented a 6 or 8 cubic foot gasoline powered little wheel barrow thing,
rich is correct unless you are up to a back breaking job i'd have it delivered and get some helpful neighbors to help wheel and finish acouple of 6 paks of good beer will boost their enthusiasm
Have you thought of a cement truck with a cement pump lorry which can pump into site directly over wall, fences or whatever. We pour roofs which are more than three storeys high here in Spain.
Either way, you're going to be doing a lot of "lugging." You could always rent a concrete mixer which would make the job pretty easy. Measure the water so that you know just how much to put into each batch. Once you have a system down, it goes pretty quick.
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