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Am I getting a reasonable quote on this dirt work?
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:50 pm
I have a piece of property that I’m looking to put a house and shop pad on. Shop pad will be 38x58 and house pad will be about 3500 sq ft. Also wanting to do some extra dirt for a road that goes to the house and to the shop. Would be around 225 foot and 14ft wide. Dirt at the property is pretty soft and I’m thinking they’ll have to remove about 18in of dirt to get to good solid clay.
Getting a quote for around 30k to do all of it. Sounds pretty high to me. Anyone know if this looks reasonable or way over what I should be seeing. Also wondering if I can just dig a small amount out and put limestone and save some money on the road. Any advice would be great!
Getting a quote for around 30k to do all of it. Sounds pretty high to me. Anyone know if this looks reasonable or way over what I should be seeing. Also wondering if I can just dig a small amount out and put limestone and save some money on the road. Any advice would be great!
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Posted on 5/13/21 at 9:59 pm to tigerclaw10
We are getting dirt work done now if it will ever stop raining. We have two house pads about 2500 sqft a piece elevated 2ft. Two 100 yard by 15 foot wide driveways. Also two big culvert pipes getting installed under a section of the driveways. Now they are digging a pond for the dirt. We are paying $36,000 btw the two house pads, other dirt work,and driveways. If that help you compare.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 11:02 pm to tigerclaw10
With that big of a house and shop and construction booming good luck getting a competitive quote they know you have money, I’m sorry that’s just reality.
There’s moving dirt around and that’s not that expensive, then there’s hauling in and hauling out. Does your quote break down what they are bringing in and hauling out? Because that’s very important in the cost. Also any trees taken out or moved around? Just having a guy come in with a bulldozer isn’t that expensive and he can do most of that in probably 2 days. You are talking half a week at under $200/ hour. But finishing it, and as said dumping and removing is a different story.
There’s moving dirt around and that’s not that expensive, then there’s hauling in and hauling out. Does your quote break down what they are bringing in and hauling out? Because that’s very important in the cost. Also any trees taken out or moved around? Just having a guy come in with a bulldozer isn’t that expensive and he can do most of that in probably 2 days. You are talking half a week at under $200/ hour. But finishing it, and as said dumping and removing is a different story.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 12:44 am to baldona
No removal of trees or anything like that, just bringing dirt in and making the pads
Posted on 5/14/21 at 6:51 am to tigerclaw10
Can’t speak to current pricing, but in late 2019 early 2020 I cleared two acres of trees, house pad of 6k sqft mucked out 3 ft and backfilled with clay. 160’ 14’ driveway with a 60’x30’ landing pad. This included rough grade of cleared area for $28k
Posted on 5/14/21 at 7:43 am to tigerclaw10
You’re leaving out a crucial measurement..how high are they going with the dirt?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 12:50 pm to tigerclaw10
Why don’t you just do geofabric and limestone and save the cost on dirt for driveway? Geofabric will prevent the limestone from being pushed into the dirt
Posted on 5/14/21 at 12:54 pm to Jack Daniel
I’m strongly thinking about just doing the limestone. And they will be removing about 18” of dirt and going up 2ft about ground for the guys asking
Posted on 5/14/21 at 2:38 pm to tigerclaw10
We had a 100'x90' house pad done about 3 months ago and it cost 28k.
Elevation ranged from 2-3'
No tree work or anything just haul dirt and level the mound
Elevation ranged from 2-3'
No tree work or anything just haul dirt and level the mound
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