I see this has sort of been discussed before, about ten years ago. Times have changed. I’m faced with a 216-226 per yard price for concrete, plus environmental and fuel surcharge fees. That’s about 2300 per truck load. Here in NE Oklahoma for a poor boy, that’s to much. I work for an aggregate company who owns their own asphalt plants, unfortunately they no longer own their own concrete plant. What I plan to do is pour concrete footers, then fill the rest with asphalt. It’s a 30x60. I know all about jacks and jack stand instability. That’s where pieces of plywood will come in handy. No heavy equipment or large trucks, and currently it’s just a thought. Although the thought of paying 12 grand plus to have 40 yds poured vs renting a small roller and spreading out the asphalt myself for 5 g or less. This will consume me till I get it done, which I hope to wrap up late fall, Go ahead and unload your opinions, I’m ready.
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Asphalt flooring
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RegeSullivan
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Asphalt stinks! Well, atleast it does to me. I have no experience or expertise here so take this with a grain of salt but I can't imagine working in a building with an asphalt floor. I worked in a warehouse where they raised the door and cut back a tractor trailer dock so about six feet of a trailer would fit inside. Temporarily they filled in the floor with asphalt.Stunk up the entire warehouse. Especially on cooler days when the ventilation fans were not running much.
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First of all, welcome to GJ!
Regarding the floor, I agree with the others in that I think asphalt is not a good idea. Thinking outside the box and using what resources you have access to is great, but I doubt you'd ever be happy with the end result no matter how well you do the job. Sometimes there is a reason why you don't see certain things done and I believe this is one of those situations.
I'm assuming the plan is to have a combination workshop and parking area. If that is the case, there is nothing wrong with splitting up the floor if you can't do the entire area in one shot. You mentioned that $12k is not in the budget, but also said you think you could pave it for ~$5k, so I assume that is a number you can afford. My suggestion would be to put as much concrete in as you can on the workshop side and leave the parking area in gravel until you can save up to do the rest.
Regarding the floor, I agree with the others in that I think asphalt is not a good idea. Thinking outside the box and using what resources you have access to is great, but I doubt you'd ever be happy with the end result no matter how well you do the job. Sometimes there is a reason why you don't see certain things done and I believe this is one of those situations.
I'm assuming the plan is to have a combination workshop and parking area. If that is the case, there is nothing wrong with splitting up the floor if you can't do the entire area in one shot. You mentioned that $12k is not in the budget, but also said you think you could pave it for ~$5k, so I assume that is a number you can afford. My suggestion would be to put as much concrete in as you can on the workshop side and leave the parking area in gravel until you can save up to do the rest.
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Great input: we have decided to raise our budget and have the floor done in concrete prior to having the building installed. Daily sacrifices and pushing the start date back two months should cover it. Thank youFirst of all, welcome to GJ!
Regarding the floor, I agree with the others in that I think asphalt is not a good idea. Thinking outside the box and using what resources you have access to is great, but I doubt you'd ever be happy with the end result no matter how well you do the job. Sometimes there is a reason why you don't see certain things done and I believe this is one of those situations.
I'm assuming the plan is to have a combination workshop and parking area. If that is the case, there is nothing wrong with splitting up the floor if you can't do the entire area in one shot. You mentioned that $12k is not in the budget, but also said you think you could pave it for ~$5k, so I assume that is a number you can afford. My suggestion would be to put as much concrete in as you can on the workshop side and leave the parking area in gravel until you can save up to do the rest.
I work for a CRH company, quarry landfill. I get great prices on agg products. The drive way in, and the east side lean to will be graveled with crusher run. Unfortunately we don’t own our own concrete plants any more, even a 15% discount on 216$ per yard is still a lot of money. Last time I bought 30 yds of concrete it ran about 2800 total, now it looks like about 9000 g’s for 40 yds. Plus labor to finish. Ouch . Thank you for your inputAside from dust, good compacted gravel base seems like it would perform as well as asphalt at a fraction of the cost.
Then save for concrete.
mike93lx
ALLIANCE MEMBER
You won't regret that decisionGreat input: we have decided to raise our budget and have the floor done in concrete prior to having the building installed. Daily sacrifices and pushing the start date back two months should cover it. Thank you
billconner
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I think I'd prefer wood over asphalt.
nadogail
Well-known member
If asphalt was a good idea, you would see more of it.
IMHO, Asphalt is a poor substitute for concrete, we see streets paved with Asphalt because it’s cheap; not because it is better than concrete
IMHO, Asphalt is a poor substitute for concrete, we see streets paved with Asphalt because it’s cheap; not because it is better than concrete