Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Soil Removal Cost 4May 28, 2009 8:13 pm Da Vinci Outdoor Living Architectural landscaping http://www.davincioutdoor.com Re: Soil Removal Cost 7Jun 02, 2009 9:22 am http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Soil Removal Cost 20Sep 29, 2009 8:02 am hunts01 We just went through the same thing The soil was $5 a cubic metre to dump at a fill site LANTRUC The tip truck was $75 an hour The excavator as $85 an hour Basically we were quoted 200 cubic metres or 20 tip truck loads, excavation and tip fees for $6000. I suggest you get onto lantrak and speak to them about prices, they sem to be pretty good! Was that including the operators hourly rate for tip truck and excavator? We are querying our concreter as they've overcharged on every conceivable thing. To remove 35.64 cubic metres of fill they charged 2800 for a combination rock breaker, 6 tonne excavator and bobcat, and 2735 in tip truck hire (395 tip fee's 5*79= 395). they say they took 22 trucks to the tip and were only charged for 5. The first day's excavation they removed most of the soil from the block the majority of the excavation for the retaining wall with supposedly 4 loads (about 27 cubes) this took the operator 6 hours. The second two days they removed the leftovers (probably a truck full), + 8.64 cubes of material for the footings some of which was rock. So excavation cost for 35 square metres (including labour of operator of excavator and supervisor for excavator (50 per hour= 2600) was $8135 or $232.4 per cubic metre. Figure that one out ! Also they excavated the footings using the same "technique" and for approx 18 cubes of footings they charged 3410 for the excavator and tipper (11 hours @ 90 for the tipper =990+ 20 hours excavator bobcat rock breaker combo 20 hours *110= 2200,+ tip fees 4 loads @55.05 = 220.20) Mysteriously the tip fee had dropped it's fees by 30 percent the second time and they were able to take 18 cubes in 4 trucks, as opposed to 35 cubes in 22 trucks. This is using a 10 cubic metre truck by the way, and the bob cat and rock breaker weren't used in the first day of excavation, i wasn't there for the rest so i don't know what happened. Also the company that do the concreting own the excavation equipment and rent it out to themselves through a shell company as their address is the same as the concreter so we can't get the actual time rented out from the machinery hire place as it's their company. PM me your email. I have a build excavation calculator you can use based on your plans to double check what your builder is telling you. Cheers Simeon 1 10500 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 38255 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair At a bit of a loss on this one - we're thinking the original owners never removed the protective laminate covers from their kitchen cabinets after installation and in the… 0 6614 |