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basskisser

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On 16 Jan 2007 04:39:35 -0800, "basskisser"
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:59:22 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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How long ago was this? It must have
been before concrete went to $125 a yard

It's still not $125 per yard here.

Maybe that is part of the confusion. $125/yd is just a metaphor for
all of the prices that spiked in places where the housing boom,
boomed. Everything got very expensive, including labor.
The funny thing is, it has not really got much cheaper and things are
slow.

Of course you Hotlanta guys have the cheap gasoline too.

It is more than $125 a yard here to most buyers. More like $150. And I am
30 miles from Pleasant Hill.

The buck and a quarter is my wife's price last fall (national home
builder) and they were buying hundreds of trucks a week in the
tri-county area from Cemex/Krehling. When we did our driveway she
called in a favor and got the Krehling employee price, $107 a yd on 27
yards.

Right around $90 right now. It got to $95 at one time for awhile.

You folks probably don't use as much concrete there. I remember stick
built homes with siding or stucco over wood.
We are CBS here

Actually there's a lot of concrete used here, just not for residential
construction. I honestly don't know what drives the prices, they
fluctuate quite a lot around here from month to month, and there really
doesn't seem to be any correlation to fuel prices, etc. I do know that
the price and availability of clinker has gone up some, and not come
down. I design a lot of industrial systems and such and when I do so, I
check prices of concrete so that I can come up with an economical
concrete/reinf. scenario. If the concrete you are designing isn't a
tension member, then you can play with the amount of reinforcing vs.
the concrete thickness to be economical. If it's a tension member, you
just have to have a given amount of reinforcing. Concrete sucks in
tension.