re: Reasonable cost to get a small slab done?

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Just steal a couple of tombstones.

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Those damn things will break a regular dolly.

I quit bringing mine from the backyard at Halloween. It’s just too heavy.

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a concrete mixer

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Not needed... job to small... sand, a trough, and elbow grease

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Any new houses going up in your subdivision? Go talk to the Forman and see if they’ll cut you a deal for a couple hundred bucks.

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This. I got the Mexican concrete crew building our our neighborhood to come double the size of my driveway and add onto my back porch for about $2500. But they already had a pour going on that day down the street and their people, tools, and equipment were already there. They scrapped off the grass with a skid steer and formed it up in about 2hrs, poured it the next day after they finished pouring what they were there to do in the first place. It was about 10yds of concrete, and $250/cy is not bad at all for paving.

Ready-mix concrete companies can't batch that small of an amount, and they usually have a minimum charge, which would include them bringing the rest of the batch that you paid for and dumping it on the ground back at the plant. Do it with sack crete. If you don't want to do it yourself, get the generator guy to do it, or do as others suggested and pay a Mexican from the Home Depot parking lot $100 and buy the materials yourself.