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I was ordering concrete for a small strip mall pad in Omaha and kept having leftover yards after every pour.

My foreman finally pointed out that for years, I'd been adding 10% for waste on the total volume, but I was forgetting to account for the subgrade compaction first. I've been over-ordering by a whole truckload on some jobs, so how do you all figure your waste factor on slabs?
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noah_davis
noah_davis17d ago
My buddy did the same thing and wasted a ton of money on a warehouse slab.
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cora177
cora17717d ago
Man, that's a tough lesson to learn. Been there with the math mix-ups on site. It's crazy how one little step can throw everything off.
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