Gravel : Cost?

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Looking at getting some gavel and need about 3ton of it and trying to look on the net for prices I can only see it £150+ per Ton. I would phone up local places but as its 8pm and tomorrow is a bank hol can anyone tell me if these are okay or over the top prices?

I was expecting £60/t am I just crazy?
 
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Looking at around £50 per ton. Gravel tends to come in 1 ton bags unless you are having a lorry come and dumb it for you. Oh and thats the 10mm pea shingle.

Have you a Travis Perkins near you or something!? Should be able to do it for you. Its one of the places we get it from.
 
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about £40 a ton sounds about right to me, from memory my local builders merchants (Buttles) charge about that, and if you spend more than £50 (i think it is) they deliver free to the local area.

There of course different grades of gravel that may affect the price.
 
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We do: 10mm, 20mm and 40mm (not generally used for this purpose) in both landbased (this is a sharper flinty type gravel) and marine (rounder smother and a slightly different colour). The gravel you were probably looking at was decorative stuff which costs a bomb.
 
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BF-Bert said:
Go to a local quarry if theres one close, builders merchants will rip you off to the extreme.

True this would be cheaper but requires you to have a trailer as they wouldnt deliver 3T it should be about £15 per T collected. But they aren't ripping you off there are overheads for transportation plus bagging costs they earn far less out of bagged aggregates than they do from other items.
 
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ste_bla said:
Does anyone know the cu capicity of the 1t bags as I need 23kcu" of gravel and unsure how many bags that is

1900cuft

1900cu feet = c55 cubic metres =c100tonnes :eek:
are you building a motorway or burying a corpse ? :D
 
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Dtab said:
1900cu feet = c55 cubic metres =c100tonnes :eek:
are you building a motorway or burying a corpse ? :D

Ah erm my calculations are wrong then;

Garden Pt1

7.5m / 295" x 7.7m / 300"

Garden Pt2

9.5m / 371" x 1.8m / 71"

Both gardens with a depth of 5cm / 2"

How many tonnes?!

My guess;

295x300x2 = 177,000 cu"
371x071x2 = 052,682 cu"
= 230,000 cu"
/ by 12 into ft = 19100 cuft


No? :confused: :( :confused:
 
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ste_bla said:
= 230,000 cu"
/ by 12 into ft = 19100 cuft[/COLOR]

No? :confused: :( :confused:

LOL NO :)

1 cubic feet = 1 728 cubic inches

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Garden Pt1

7.5m x 7.7m x 0.05m (2") = 2.88

Garden Pt2

9.5m x 1.8m x 0.05m = 0.855

Total

2.88 + 0.855 = 3.7 Cubic meters or 6T
 
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ste_bla said:
Oops my bad!

Is 3.7 exactly 6 ton or less?

Also I found 20mm gravel/limestone in B&Q @ £37 a big bag which is good?

Cheers for the help

About 6.2ton but its never exact. £37 for limestone? are you sure that is decorative stone and not scalps or similar? (this is a material that is compressed below gravel to form a solid surface)
 
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MaxPower said:
About 6.2ton but its never exact. £37 for limestone? are you sure that is decorative stone and not scalps or similar? (this is a material that is compressed below gravel to form a solid surface)

It turns out that was Cotswold Stones but the folks now want the random stone type gravel. Now Im not sure how much i need as BQ said each bag is around 0.8t but are 1 cu m is that right? (4 bags)

But then this calc says i need 7t (8 bags?)
 
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