The town of Getzville came around and gave the fluorescent orange spray paint can a work out on my sidewalk. Needless to say several slabs received the kiss of death, accompanied by a letter demanding they be replaced.
Need someone who can pour some concrete and not take my teeth out.
Thanks.
Hmmm, I need the same, maybe we can do a package deal?
OK, I might be able to help you out with this. Since it’s just a sidewalk, I think my finishing skills will be sufficient. Here’s what’s going to be the kicker. Depending on how big your area of work happens to be, I will more than likely incur short load or small load charges no matter who I call. If you can line up multiple homes in the neighborhood it can help amortize, or eliminate, these costly charges. Youre also heading into winter rate time of year so that doesn’t help any more than the weather. PM me if you want to discuss.
For just parts of a sidewalk wouldn’t bagged concrete and a rented portable mixer or even a wheelbarrow and some muscle make good sense?
I have a mixer and have gone this route in the past but at some point volume makes it less attractive.
go door knocking, my friends live in Snyder, and about 10 houses kicked in a few bucks per square and got someone to do all of them with a small load truck towed rental cement truck trailer thing. Wasn’t a whole lot of loot.
I did one this way when the guy I hired to replace a sump pump line flaked out and never returned to finish the job by replacing the sidewalk slab he broke up. I wouldn’t want to do more than a couple slabs mixing in a wheel barrow. One was a bitch.
Galante Concrete just did a sidewalk and stamped concrete pad across the street. They’re related to a good friend of mine but dropping my name probably isn’t going to get you anywhere with the “I’m a friend of a friend of Giorgio’s”. They do top notch work for good prices though.
If it was me I’d get a couple neighbors to go in and hire 1SlowZ.
My neighbor took it upon himself (I’m pretty sure he’s the guy that called the town in the first place) to hire someone to come and do half the neighborhood’s slabs. Paid under $100/slab and they spent two hours back-hoeing 10" roots, 4-5 feet in length from under my existing slabs. I’m pretty sure I got my monies worth. Some of these roots are the diameter of basketballs.
Thanks guys.
Italians in the concrete business? Sounds rare!
at 1SlowZ.
Funny, because Giorgio is a software engineer like me but helped me do the one slab at my house. When I asked him when he learned to do concrete he said at birth.
My guy’s first name is Mario and his last name ends in a vowel.
Awesome. I bet they got left over for some new shoes