Browse Forums Paving & Concreting 1 Feb 09, 2011 2:59 pm Just been quoted by the builder $130m2 to lay the driveway of our house (yet to enter contract). It's 60m2 of driveway (coloured with oxide?), with a rise of about 1/2m over approx 6m, so I wouldn't consider it overly sloping... but looking at what people here have been have been paying for what seems to be more labour intensive, does that seem somewhat expensive, even with the builder's markup from the sub-contractor? Building Masterton Overture Re: Concrete - What's reasonable? 2Feb 09, 2011 4:13 pm I wouldnt let a project builder handle your driveway. I dont know for sure, but i would say, Masto have subcontracted it out to another company, who has in turn subcontracted it out to a local contractor, thats 2 company's taking their piece of the pie for doing nothing basically. Seems good to me. I've been told $4-5k/sqm is reasonable in Perth. 2 7819 You are fine. The concrete is never going to explode. Worse case scenario is that it develops a crack from different rates of expansion but hopefully it's got some… 5 4509 |