Browse Forums Paving & Concreting Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 2Oct 25, 2015 11:50 pm you want exposed aggregate. Exposed aggregate is expensive. This is a good quote. Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 3Oct 27, 2015 10:38 am That's interesting, because other quotes I have received are less than $6000, and some others less than $5000. I posted this because I wanted to be sure that is is REALLY the going rate. I don't want to pay $2,000 less only to find out that I got fooled. Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 4Oct 27, 2015 6:08 pm For 70 square meters, 6000 dollars will get you a guy with a cement truck who will pour cement up against your brick walls and walk away. Sorry, I'm being a bit facetious here, but that quote is already a bargain. dont pay any less than that. Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 5Nov 11, 2015 7:35 am Hi Felipe Do you mind if i ask who that quote is with? Also do they give you a breakdown of what the alfresco area cost is? We are about to build in the peninsula in SL and im just lookin to see what prices are out there currently. Also when i was budgeting for driveway costs i thought $100 sqm would be the norm price for a decent job and that would incl everything. Thanks Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 6Nov 11, 2015 9:27 am Seems about right to me. We have 65sqm of driveway in exposed aggregate plus about 20sqm of crossover and footpath in grey concrete and our price is $8000. Plus on top of that we need to find someone else to rip up the old crossover. Re: Qld Driveway Quote - too high? 7Nov 20, 2015 9:49 pm Make sure you check out previous jobs. Exposed aggregate is somewhat of an art and it can easily go wrong if they've not much experience. Our Build Here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=74037&p=1255246#p1255246 It will be neat but you won't have much freeboard. At least they are not weep holes. Are you in a high intensity rainfall region? The regulatory slope is only required… 3 8245 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39469 hey there! π so, itβs kinda common for standard drawer depths to be around 500mm since most cabinets use this size to fit the usual runners… 3 20890 |