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Originally Posted by Table 5
Thanks Rathji, some great thoughts there. At first my parents were looking to use stamped concrete, but most of that stuff looks rather cheesy I think. I prefer the block/tile approach myself.
Do you have any recommendations for contractors to do this type of stuff?
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I don't know of anyone personally. Been out of the business since 2006.
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
That sounds like a lot of work, and that is why I'm considering to have someone do it for me. 
What kind of ballpark $ do you think I would be looking at to have about a 25' walkway done from my front door, along the garage and to my driveway? |
Base min cost for most contractors will be twice material cost for a straightforward job with machine access. If you have a more complex job including existing landscaping to work around, expect that to go up. I haven't been landscaping since 2006, so things might have changed with the economy not supercharged.
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25' walkway, 4 feet across that is totally straight would be 100 sq ft, plus about 20% for cutting = 120 sq ft.
4.7 blocks per sqft = 564 blocks, which is pretty much a pallet (560 pavers per pallet) which is about $500 plus delivery of about $75 for a total of about
$575
Road crush is about $38 a yard.
100sq ft x 4 inches deep = 33 cubic feet, or about 1.25 cubic yards. (this math seems off to me for some reason), I wouldnt order less than 2 yards for this unless you had no way to dispose of extra gravel (like in your alley)
Sand is $65 a yard, and you would need 1 yard as well at minimum.
Factor in $75 each for those for delivery, but that might go down a little bit if you can split a load.
65+ 75 + 80+75 =
$295
Edging material and spikes will be about
$100.
575+295+100 = $970 for materials alone. Add in disposal and misc costs and machine time it would be about $1200.
So if you were paying someone, I would expect to pay about
$2400 if they had easy access for machinery to dig out (and there were no utility concerns) and haul in materials. It would go up from there, especially for a larger company, since the smaller jobs are ones they would over bid on since they might not really want it for a price they might be willing to do a larger job for.
If it was me, and I was both as cheap as I am and being lazy, I would find some teenaged kid / cash corner reject to pay to dig it out and haul materials for me and then prep the area and lay the blocks myself.
edit: If spring comes around and this still needs done, I would probably be willing to do it for you over a weekend or two once school finishes. I really did love doing this stuff, but our business sense wasn't as good as our landscaping sense.