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Re:The Americans Pledging to Buy Less–Or Even Nothing by ty6853 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:36AM (#42865340)
I built my block foundation in 4 weekends. I would use a truck for footings and grout next time as mixing and wheel barrowing 300 60# bags of quikrete was brutal. Total cost was <4000, but that includes excavator rental and site prep. If you hire a truck i think it is difficult to handle that much without help and you are fucked if it sets too soon.

A concrete truck would not even make it down my road though... and many of the blocks were carried in small bundles by 4x4 truck. Building a road for heavy trucks would probably cost as much as the house.

Re:The Americans Pledging to Buy Less–Or Even Nothing by potato3732842 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:16AM (#42865860)
> If you hire a truck i think it is difficult to handle that much without help and you are fucked if it sets too soon.

Foundations, walls and footings are cake because they're all formed, you just gotta finish the top. It's the flatwork that has lots of finished area for volume and is very laborious