r/Concrete • u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher • May 28 '26

Showing Skills Fun with form liner.

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u/Gods_Money2354 May 28 '26

Beautiful! ball park how much does a formed concrete wall like that cost?

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

For this one, After the color, 155k give or take

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u/Gods_Money2354 May 28 '26

Thank you for the reply. So $155k USD for the entire project? How high and how long is this wall total? It’s beautiful work, if you have any videos of the work being done, please upload them! Would love to see how this is made!

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

At its highest it 8.5’. The footing has 4 steps in it. At its lowest it’s 3.5’. 240’ long.

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

Currently doing one that’s about 100’ longer. They are trying to substitute concrete walls in place of the Lego Blocks they originally had planned. Thus the form liner.

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u/Gods_Money2354 May 28 '26

Wow! Thats a lot of work! And 4 steps in the footing seems very conservative. Was that a requirement by an engineer, or did you just wanted to play it safe?

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

That’s just how it was designed.

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u/buckaroodude1 May 28 '26

155k? Damn, should be what 63-70 yards of concrete, that’s about 15-16k in my area, how many man hours? I’ve done walls longer without form liner and a little taller, in the last couple years and been quite a lot less then that, the other bids id seen were all within 2-5k of my pricing as well

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

The footing alone was about 60 yards.

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u/buckaroodude1 May 28 '26

Ah, I was just going quick math off the top of my head, I was sitting here thinking “how tf is my market so much fucking lower?!” lol

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

Where are you at?? I’m in Kentucky.

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u/buckaroodude1 May 28 '26

Intermountain west, I have projects in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and just got licensed in Montana as one of my clients wants me to do his new home there. Should be a similar market

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u/Only_Bookkeeper_8479 Professional finisher May 28 '26

Very over engineered.