How To Do A Basic Concrete Floor Estimate (Bidding Concrete Jobs) What To Charge
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2020
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This video will show you how to do a basic residential concrete floor estimate. When I bid a concrete job for a client, I am responsible for estimating the cost of materials and labor. This video will show you how I figure the cost of my materials per square foot and how I add that to my labor rate for a final estimate.
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I like how you explain even the basic stuff when you do your videos, even for seasoned contractors, it's never bad to review, thanks for all your hard work and the valuable info!
Thanks Drew!
These are comparable skills needed in whatever discipline of trade. I call this for your trade, take off skills for electrical basics. Young guys (apprentices) want to automation and the hi-tech stuff. Power, lighting, basic diagrams they don't want! They want to jump to the engineer' s level without the apprentice experience. Man these skills are critical for any discipline in the form the basics take. ie concrete take off and calculation skills for your trade, electrical diagrams for us etc. I think you get the concept and communicate it so well!! Wow thanks for this insightful look into this important issue!!
Thanks John!
Straight to the point and very informative! Thanks
Thanks Evan!
Excellent tutorial on estimating.This type of informational training is a long time coming. If I wasn't retired I'd start
my own business thanks to you.
Thank you Mike!
been subscribed for a couple weeks now, and this is where I struggle. I'm talking with some friends that have businesses in other areas of my state but getting info from people like you that have been in the game a lot longer is awesome too.
Mike. I think what your doing for folks is great. A lot of guys don’t care to help others. I’ve been doing concrete with my mom and dad for 20 plus years and they don’t care to help anyone. I’m not like that at all. Love what your doing to help others get a jump start in concrete. For some of us it’s in our blood. The others just don’t know better!!🤣🤣🤣. Thanks Mike. Always watching and supporting.
Your videos are super informative and clear thank you Mike Day for helping the little guy
Thanks Mike I love your show I’m a mechanic and I work on concrete equipment it’s nice to know the other side of the business in the field besides your experience and wisdom help me to install my first slab to perfection, thanks… It’s the beauty of UA-cam and sharing information, wish I would’ve had this stuff 20 years ago anyway I was curious about what goes under concrete in the way of foam and vapor barriers maybe you can get into it in the future episode… Keep on rockin…
Mike, you are truly the man bro.. really appreciate you sharing the knowledge. Although I’m not a contractor but I find the craft of concrete building so interesting. I look at all you and your teams projects, truly amazing work. Don’t stop what you do. Lenny from Maryland..
Thanks Lenny!
Thank you for your education ! I'm a contractor that is up in coming and i really like that you want to help us.
Great video Mike! I knew of 3 different formulas to order concrete, but I have to say I haven't heard that one. Just dividing it by 81 if its 4 inch, 60 if its 6 id assume. Seems like the easiest way! I like to do it at least 2 ways, but now it'll be 3 ways haha thanks buddy.
Mike you are the best man to learn from I've been pouring for over 20 years but i still learn watching you..you are the best
Thanks
In my head I estimated 2500-2600 sq ft and 33 yards to pour before you calculated. Just starting my own tiny concrete business. Starting to feel more confident! Thanks for all these videos!
super informative and helpful vid ... thanks again for these Mike!
Mike your amazing and your teachings are priceless you are a blessing to my days and future company
I enjoy your channel! I work for Texas barndominums and am in charge of estimating and scheduling our jobs and your videos help a lot.
Manny, Yes I know you work for Eric. I watch your videos all the time. Awesome seeing you in the comments. I told Eric I need to come down to Texas and pour a slab with you guys.
I follow both of you guys, you guys do a really good job 👏.
Thanks Mike! Looking forward to the membership
Thanks Jonathan!!
We was the first 10K viewers OOOORAHHH!!! Great video straight to the point and understandable.
Thanks for taking time to do this video. Very helpful
Your welcome!
This is pure gold man!
Good stuff Mike.
Have done some work for my own place.
Not planning to go into the biz but am certainly more confident pouring my own garage and car ports. Thanks.
You're welcome
Great video Mike! I was surprised when you said 1 yard of concrete cost $125 a yard. Here in West Virginia you have Central charging $220 a yard.
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Very well explained thanks!
Mike, you forgot your cure-seal in your estimate, lol! Keep up the great videos, I’m glad I’m not the only concrete nut out there, great job!
Great Video. Thanks. Wish you were here in east Texas for my three car garage I'm planing.
My man! Mike the great! Thank you for the video…very helpful
Great video Mike..I appreciate your knowledge sir.
Thanks for watching
What is the average concrete thickness for a garage floor?
Ya your a good guy . I like people that share their knowledge!
Hey Mike really enjoy how you explain the business side of concrete and how to estimate jobs wish i know about your videos before cause i got screwed by many contractors i know the concrète part not so much the business end of it.
Excellent job.
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Awesome explanation. Thanks
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Awesome thanks Mike!
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Thank you so much for the videos, im starting my own thing... i really need to learn to estimate..........
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Thanks Joel.
Thank you Sr great video!!👍🏽
Thank you
Excellent Video we Appreciate all your info we need more Videos mike
Thank you, for sharing your knowledge with us. Are you going to do a couple more examples like this? Driveway or a smaller pad?
I will, and these trainings will be more detailed in my business program coming up as well.
I really appreciate your video helped alot. Can you make videos of other concrete items like concrete footings, walls, beams concrete gutters etc.
Thanks for this video
Old school is the best way.
Thank you.
Great video .thanks for sharing
Thank you
Hi Mike, I pretty much do my material calculations the same way you do. I figure materials , labor costs, and I also figure in delivery costs, overhead and profit.. Here is what you are missing in your estimate for the project;
1. Overhead costs
2. Profit on the job.
3. Delivery costs, our suppliers here in New Jersey charge about $250.00 per truckload of concrete delivery, do they charge that in Maine? If so, it wasn’t included in your estimated costs.
Do you already include these fees in your materials and labor costs? You didn’t mention it if you did .
Love the videos!!! Great content and presentation! If I heard you correctly you don't do the subgrade and gravel placement and drainage preparations. How do you protect yourself from liability should there be a failure? I was a landscape contractor for 30 years and in my experience, I NEVER wanted to work off of any other persons work, it always came back to BITE me. I'm a subcriber!!! Keep the great work coming! Thank You!!!
It's written in my contract Michael. I'm not held liable for cracks due to settling or frost heaves.
Great stuff! Sign me up for the future classes, I enjoyed the stamped concrete course and can always use the extra help for my business. Thank you sir
Will do Frank, thanks for watching and commenting!!
Once again, thanks for crunching the numbers for us.
great video cheers from Ontario
This is awesome...
Thank you
very helpfull thanks man !!! 🤘👍
Another Great Vid thanks Mike. I am Canadian so the numbers are different but gives me a great idea.
Thank you!
Great information
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you mike
I watch all your videos. I'm just a diy er but you have saved me $!!!
That video will help a lot of people
I'm glad you think so. That's what I was hoping for.
Thank you so much.
Mike
I send vibrations of love, success and increase in financial wisdom to you for always sharing your valuable information, I appreciate it and I’m sure those your entrepreneurs out there do as well. Can you do more on estimating for us ? Also what about estimating stamped concrete as well and board formed concrete retaining walls ?
Thank you and many blessings.
Great video very informative! I'm interested in the one on one coaching on how to start your own concrete business. Looking forward to hearing back from you!
You deserve a lot more for what you’re doing man you are sending me to work with so much knowledge to show up these old assholes who think they know everything.
No ego here, I'm just trying to help whomever wants to be helped.
great job iv been pouring concrete over 30 years i have my license ic ca. now I'm in Oregon what a difference i wil get my license in the state of Oregon your comments refreshed my memory
Thanks mike I do it this same way also
Thanks Bryan!
Thanks a lot for all the videos and great information for us that want to know how the pros do it. My question is how about the pricing on prepping the job as in the gravel the leveling of the ground how do you estimate that?
Great watch
Thank you
Another great video Mike! Any idea what you’re going to charge for the membership and the 1 on 1?
Awesome thank you
You're welcome, do you do concrete?
Great job Mike! if they are not teaching this in a vocational setting, we are doing our future a disservice.
This type of thinking can be applied to a variety of professions!
I always add roughly 10% because digging a trench isn’t high tech!
As I was typing this I heard you covering it! Lol 🤣
Thanks Bret! I feel the same, there's a whole segment of kids missing out on real world stuff like this.
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They have a level of entitlement that drives me crazy! I was a manager over 43 production mechanics. It’s a double edge sword getting a younger person. If they are willing to learn. You have a long term employee. An older guy like me 55 comes with skills and a little hard head. But, I showed up to work every day. Most days before my boss... lol work ethics are hard to teach sometimes.
Hey mike I just recently started watching your videos and I love watching them. I’m still young but I’m 23 and I’ll be 24 this year I have been pouring concrete since I was 13. I’m looking to try and go out on my own within the next year or so. I just love this kind of work and really don’t want to be doing anything else. I’ve worked a lot of residential and commercial concrete work. But one question I have is how do you know what kind of concrete mix to order for each pour. I’ve worked this a lot but I have never actually made a order for concrete myself. Really that’s about the only thing I’m not a 100% sure of. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.
Always go higher psi than the plans call for so when you get a job that require sample you'll be above the requirements and won't have to tear it out. We almost exclusively use pea gravel mix and rebar if there's no rebar we add fiber mesh and pour 3500 psi especially if we are using a pump they add water so the pump doesn't jam this takes down the psi rating so cover your self and start with a higher psi so you don't have issues
Thanks Mike for your time in explaining this. But how do you account for overhead and profit? Thanks
Great video, could explain how to estimate in sand for grading for a monolithic slab 4 to 6 inch slabs.
I don't do the excavation, but I can figure it out and make a video if it'll help.
Hey Mike, where are you getting your water reducer? Thanks for all the amazing videos!!
Either grace(gcp) seika or the other uclid I use to deliver ad mix all depends on the concrete company and who they use. Most of it is the same with a different name. WR , retarder, excelerant on n on
Thank you
Hey Mike very informative video, thanks. I am getting different bids from contractors on a 30x50 garage with a 25x12 lean to. with some bids there is a 10,000.00 difference. What would your guess to do a job like this and this also includes the grading.
Mike, just curious. What is your markup to cover your overhead and profit. I found out the hard way last year I wasn't charging enough for my work, not saying your doing that. Then I found a perfect book that taught me that I wasn't charging near enough to cover my overhead, let alone make a profit. Just curious that's all. Hope to here from you
Do you have a video of you doing concrete Flatwork takeoff?
A friend of mine got a call from a scabby contractor, they wanted a bid on a whole lot of concrete steps.
My buddy said “ya know how I figured it?”
I guessed that he ciphered it up and added 30%.
He said “nope, I figured it up and DOUBLED IT!!!”
They took the bid and he actually got paid....after several calls to their bank to see if there was enough funds to cover the check.
Sometimes that'll work. Glad he got paid.
Hey Mike. I have a question. I have a set of concrete stairs with a three wide brick wall next to the stairs.
The brick wall has come away from the stairs by about 10-20mm. Is there any way to bring it back so its hard up?
Cheers love the videos been watching for ages.
i can't wait sir for the training please am interested
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Just giving back what was given to me. Hope it helps someone!
That same exact job in the state of Oregon would be $10-$13 per square foot pump is added extra... Usually $350 for the first 10 yards. You had 2240sqft...so obviously it would start at $22,400 plus the pump.All concrete guys here fine grade themself. nobody here leaves it up to an excavation guy they just don't get the grade close enough it needs to be within a quarter of an inch.
Hey Mr Mike if I’m bidding a Job and the customer doesn’t know how thick the existing is but I am doing a demo and replace how can I give a good fair price without exactly ripping the concrete out before know how deep it truely is ! To give them a good bid ! Awesome Videos!
thanks..
Wish you were closer to Minnesota. I'd like to learn concrete stamping. I've done all types of residential and commercial concrete for 25 years, but haven't done any stamping, crazy huh
I can be hired for 1 on 1 coaching. That's coming soon and always an option. That's how I was taught.
@@MikeDayConcrete Can you send me a message for details? Maybe I could fly out and work with you guys for a few days this spring.
I'm in mn we do stamp work. Willing to teach.
@@georgeheller2281 I appreciate that, can you send me a private message on here or my Facebook page? facebook.com/ProConcreteCoatings
Curious on what you would charge to put down all the base material also.
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If there were footings being built into the slab would it be indicated on the architecture drawings?
Great video Mike. A little thread drift here....During those 40 years what do you do about the never ending saga on how to keep your hands from splitting this time of year. Me, right in the middle of it now. Maybe you'll take a minute or so in a video and explain what you do ? Thanks
Lotion after work, lotion before going to sleep, lotion once you wake up
What about OH/P and GL insurance ? Where do you wrap that in?
What about cost for having say 3 finishers site? Would you add their cost as well?
Hey Mike what about the stem just so I can understand the whole estimate pricing for a project
Mike, what do you recommend for a profit margin over the cost of materials and labor?
Hey Mike. How do you suggest i start up with barely any funds? Take small jobs in the beginning and make sure the customer has bought all materials for the job?
Great Video!! When finding your yards of concrete why do divide by 81?
81 is how many sq ft 1 yard of concrete will do at 4" thick. Just an easy way of figuring yards for 4" floors.
because a cubic yard is 27 cubic feet and a cubic foot is 3 square feet at four inches thick.
Hello Mike! Thank you very much, it is really is useful. But, I have a question, Why didn´t you add the Pump Truck price?
We keep the pump as an option. Add it only if we use it. Tell them an extra $1000 if a pump is needed.
@@MikeDayConcrete Thank you! Excellent
Hey mike. I just got my EIN, but I’m stuck on how I should go about marketing myself to companies. Any tips will be MUCH appreciated
Great video, I want to start a business here in Texas but I just need to know how much to charge customers square foot including materials and labor and also money that will be left thanks.
I can help you with that in The Concrete Underground: www.theconcreteunderground.com/the-concrete-underground