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   IMERC | Jun 17, 2004 09:46pm | #1

   A dollar three eighty....

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....

                                                                      WOW!!!   What a Ride!
   

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   ProDek | Jun 17, 2004 11:04pm | #2

   It's a buck six forty here.

   I think I just got taken to the cleaners..........3500 sq.ft. asphalt drive.........

   I juist had it resealed for $1400. bucks

   What do those tar babies charge you guys for a re-seal?"Rather be a hammer than a nail"

   Bob

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   IMERC | Jun 17, 2004 11:35pm | #3

   I honestly can't recall any body around here with a driveway paved with much of anything other than dirt or mud and some stone of sorts...  

   The affluent have road base at 4 bucks a ton plus delivery and with a driveway that can be measured in miles.............

   Now the effluent folks fron CA and TX get what extravigence they want.... You ask them the rates... I don't fit their circle, don't communicate with them if I can help it, won't work for them either...

   One just had 3.5miles x 30' of pavers done complete with street lights... Rumored to be 2.1 million dollars... Must have been better than hundred mexicans working on it

   There goes the neighborhood....

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....                                                                   WOW!!!   What a Ride!

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   DougU | Jun 18, 2004 12:33am | #4

   Imerc

   Must have been better than hundred mexicans working on it

   Hey our president says their just doing jobs that nobody else wants!!!

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   IMERC | Jun 18, 2004 12:50am | #5

   I wonder what would have happened to that job if INS had stopped in???

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....                                                                   WOW!!!   What a Ride!

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   DougU | Jun 18, 2004 02:52am | #6

   Same thing that happens with cockroaches when you turn on the lights!

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   ponytl | Jun 18, 2004 05:18am | #8

   1400.00 to seal a drive... dang...   i have all commerical property shopping centers & office blds...  and it's about 90% fly by nite sealers arond here and you never know what ur get'n...  so i bought my own seal machines, hot melt crack sealers, asphalt roller, & gas powered tampers... all for less than what i was quoted to do one job...

   sealer around here runs $1.30  a gal for the good stuff... u can water it down about 20% and add 1lb of sand or black beauty per gal... 1 gallon will cover aprox 100sf first coat and prob 150sf second coat if you go for 2 coats...  (fly by nite guys somehow apply 2 coats at once...go figure...)  so figure to do it right materials will run u about .18 a sf... most guys around here water it down and spread/spray it thin so they prob have half that in it....

   i can do 50,000 to 100,000 sf in a day with 2 helpers if the lot is pretty clean when i start...

   pony

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   davidmeiland | Jun 18, 2004 03:25am | #7

   There's a fairly established concrete outfit here.... $350/yard (of concrete used) for whatever you want... flatwork, $350/yard, foundation, $350/yard.  I guess they decided to stop estimating and start using a number that would work out for the average job. I'm sure they step on it if you ask for an octagonal footing on a 45 degree slope.

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   Dryrot | Jun 18, 2004 06:06am | #9

   Costs + labor + overhead + profit = Price of job

   ...and it's different for every locality.

   Around here (N. Florida) I can get concrete placed for $3.00. a foot... sometimes even less. Of course, this is podunk Florida. Go to any big city around here and the price doubles or close to it.

    --- BRICK

    

   "They say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. I like to color outside the lines...and then eat the crayons." ~ Me