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How to Bid CONCRETE Edging

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Due to the precise nature of hand-laying and individually leveling each concrete edging unit, the installation process is considerably slower than for other edging materials like vinyl or steel. The presenter suggests a production rate of approximately 15 linear feet per hour for concrete edging, which is half the rate for vinyl or steel edging (30 linear feet per hour). Using an assumed labor rate of $65 per hour, the labor cost for concrete edging is calculated by dividing the hourly rate by the production rate ($65 / 15 L.f.), resulting in a labor-only cost of $4.33 per linear foot.

Goal: Determine the labor cost per linear foot for installing concrete edging, considering its intensity.

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the steel edging in this case but now on top of that if you're going to put the individual unit kind of like pav stones in place you're going to have to also base you may need to put a little bit of sand on the bottom between the material and the subsoil so that it doesn't Rock and move um and then each indiv idual unit we got to be careful calculating our labor cost because then you have a single Stone and that goes next to a getting into how you install it the point is is you got to put each and every stone in separately then you got to level each individual paper unit and then you have to level it to the one next to it our production goes down dramatically so our labor cost per linear foot increases exponentially you've got to be really careful on that if you don't calculate it right you could get hurt so in this case we're going to say that a guy can install about 15 lar feet not 30 so your Productions cut in half per hour we want to get the same labor rate at $65 per hour so our labor cost in this case is about $433 per linear foot okay our material cost is $2.25 a linear foot and then you may need to import sand which has the

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