never did concrete before. Need about 3 cubic yards. Am I supposed to order like a hundred bags of the premix and a buy a concrete mixer? Do I just higher a concrete guy to pour it? Should I order truck + pump (pump is like 750 and the concrete probably around that much from the truck)? Kinda scared I'm gonna frick up the pump thing. Can I solo pour that?
Just mix a bunch of this shit in a wheelbarrow and dump it in.
that's probably around the top end of what you would want to do in a small mixer. Lots of companies 3 yards is their minimum for a truck order. Why do you need a pump truck though? Can't do it with a chute?
its gotta go to my yard.
>mixer
>bags
>wheel barrow you don't care about
>hose
>beer
Just set everything up near where it's going and spend an afternoon mixing and dumping. Don't go too big with your loads, don't want to spill by accident.
>higher
You can rent a cement buggy somewhere for the day. If you dont think you can wheel barrow it.
3 cu yd is >2m3?
quite a lot to mix even with a mixer
if you buy premix you dont need to put it in a mixer you just mix it with water on the ground on a sheet of timber. uf you bought plain cement and mixed in aggregate yourself you would benefit from a mixer.
(you can mix concrete from scratch on the ground too if you are poor)
do you need a pump? you can order a truck and either get them to dump it exactly where you need it or get them to put it into wheelbarrows and you barrow it to where you need it. depends on the access you have.
if its literally just you with a barrow the driver might get a little pissed having to wait for you running around, normall you get a couple pals to help barrowing.
if he can reverse the truck to where you need the concrete you can just dump it right where you need it
Concrete mixing bags are a cheap easy way to mix your own stuff.
If this 86 year old man can do it then you probably can.
>mix 5400 lbs of concrete yourself bro
are you fricking moronic?
3 yards or about 135 x 80 lbs. bags? I'd say call a company and have it trucked in. You'll want to have everything ready to go, but it's going to be done a lot faster than if you have to mix batches of 10 cubic feet (600 lbs) at a time (based on the larger mixers I've seen for rent). At the least, call a company and ask for a price quote for that amount; hell, you may even find that it costs less to get the truck then all those bags.
just mix it in a wheel barrel
Trucks will deliver 3 yards no problem, they do small jobs like that all the time, you'll get part of a full truck, or the leftovers from a bigger job. They won't fill a truck just for you, but they don't like running around with small jobs, so the more jobs on the truck, the better.
Call around. Ask.
If you're pouring a slab, get a truck. If it's easy to get to.
Eh depending on what you're using it for you really don't want tail end concrete from someone else's pour. It's likely to be 2+ hours old and watered down by time time you get it resulting in less workability time and a shit finish product.
don't do it on a sunny hot day and you'll be fine
Or just mix it by hand in a day, you make 800+ a day you would pay for a pump?
Why not rent a concrete buggy for like 300?
Pick up some labor at Home Depot . Then it’s routine.
>Am I supposed to order like a hundred bags of the premix and a buy a concrete mixer?
Definitely call a concrete supplier and get a truck to deliver 3 yards. Not only will it make it a much easier job since you don’t have to do the mixing yourself, it should also be way cheaper. In my area a truck will bring a load of standard concrete for around $240 per yard. For comparison an 80 pound bag of dry mix is about $7 here, so at 0.6 cubic feet per bag the equivalent 1 yard using 80 lb bags would cost over $300 plus all the time & effort to mix it.
>pump
Do you really need one? Unless you need to concrete to go uphill it's never really necessary. If you can't get the truck right next to the pour you could always run a wheelbarrow between the truck and the pour site.
2.3m3 is a decent amount of concrete in terms of doing it by yourself, is this one slab or multiple things, like concreting in poles?
for smallish jobs like this my roommate has been doing it with cement, a pile of crusher dust, and a second hand mixer, though the mixer is not technically required, someone skilled (and fit) can mix concrete straight in a wheelbarrow or on the ground, not really a first-timer kind of thing i would say, especially if you need all of that at once
ordering a concrete truck and wheelbarrowing it to your spot(s) will be the easiest way to do it, though perhaps not the cheapest
Last year I poured (140) 60 pound bags for a slab for a shed. That's a little over 2 pallets. I used a harbor frigate mixer. I had no help as I live in the middle of nowhere. The problem is when you're by yourself is that you have to mix, pour, screed, all at once. Then you have to finish it. It was a hard day but it got done. I sat in a chair for about 2 days afterward. In my 40's. Hope that helps, homosexual.
poor it in dry (Its already mixeed) and then wet it, like this
Don't fricking do this. It's fine if you want to dump some dry concrete into a fence post hole and then throw some water in there, but if you're doing something like a slab or a wall, it's pretty terrible. You cannot ensure uniform wetting and you will end up with pockets of weak semi-cured concrete because areas didn't get enough water, or possibly even pockets of completely dry concrete that never cures. The chance for failure of the concrete assembly is drastically higher doing this than if you mix it normally.
This is how I did my driveway. Don't believe the flatwork hebrews.