rikardob
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How much did it cost you to put 18 concrete tee pads on your course?
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The cost of 18 concrete tee pads?
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without more details its impossible to tell you. you need to know how much cement (length x width x height) and how much rebar as well as wood for forms
rikardob
Eagle Member
I don't have that information. What I want to know specifically is:
you just want to hear from people who actually put them in.
With so many courses in Rochester getting new tee pads, you should be able to fins someone who knows at a local tourney, but the weather has probably limited how many tourneys are coming your way.
With so many courses in Rochester getting new tee pads, you should be able to fins someone who knows at a local tourney, but the weather has probably limited how many tourneys are coming your way.
John Rock
Double Eagle Member
$500.00 for 18 tee pads.
We worked out a deal with the City. We put in $500 they covered the rest and provided material & labor.
Pretty sweet deal.
Tully Lake DGC pays 1000 per. they have a unique design in that they are raised in the middle and slightly sloped to the sides. this lets the water run off and not pool. there are also pavers on top of the cement. by far the coolest teepads i have ever seen.
What size pad do you want? I took a look at what the cost would be for one 4ftX12ftX5in
.74 yards concrete per pad
13.32 yards
Cost = 1531.8
Add fiber mesh instead of rebar = +65. If you add rebar + 200
Formwork:
4X8 plywood = 9, 8 ft strips out of each one = 72 ft of form work.
Total footage needed for 18 tees = 864ft. 864/72 = 12 sheets of plywood at 13.50/sheet
Cost = $162
Construction Steaks (this is hammered in the ground every 4 ft or so? and the formwork is screwed into this):
I forget how many feet apart is required between the steaks but let's say you need 12/pad (4 corners, 1 extra in middles of short sides and 3 extra/side on long sides = 216 steaks (.32 each = 69.12).
Cost = 69.12
So that would be
Concrete = 1531.80
Plywood = 162
2X2 Construction steaks = 69.12
Total = 1762.92 + tax + either rebar or fiber mesh. Fiber mesh = $65 more for this order, otherwise add $200 for rebar, actually would be wire mesh, not real rebar.)
Hope that gives you an idea.
.74 yards concrete per pad
13.32 yards
Cost = 1531.8
Add fiber mesh instead of rebar = +65. If you add rebar + 200
Formwork:
4X8 plywood = 9, 8 ft strips out of each one = 72 ft of form work.
Total footage needed for 18 tees = 864ft. 864/72 = 12 sheets of plywood at 13.50/sheet
Cost = $162
Construction Steaks (this is hammered in the ground every 4 ft or so? and the formwork is screwed into this):
I forget how many feet apart is required between the steaks but let's say you need 12/pad (4 corners, 1 extra in middles of short sides and 3 extra/side on long sides = 216 steaks (.32 each = 69.12).
Cost = 69.12
So that would be
Concrete = 1531.80
Plywood = 162
2X2 Construction steaks = 69.12
Total = 1762.92 + tax + either rebar or fiber mesh. Fiber mesh = $65 more for this order, otherwise add $200 for rebar, actually would be wire mesh, not real rebar.)
Hope that gives you an idea.
Correction,
Add in a roll of visqueen as a vapor barrier, approx $40. But you might get away with only 1 roll of wire mesh = 100 instead of 200. I forget how many square feet a roll of wire mesh covers.
Add in a roll of visqueen as a vapor barrier, approx $40. But you might get away with only 1 roll of wire mesh = 100 instead of 200. I forget how many square feet a roll of wire mesh covers.
Troy Jan
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I would put a four inch stone base under , four inches of concrete with wire mesh. The vapor barrier is not really necessary.Any concrete finished outside should have some pitch (slope) either from the middle to the sides or the whole pad tilted one direction. The biggest problem would be getting the concrete to the holes if you asked me.Can you get a truck in to them. The truck charges for time as well as small loads.That $500 was one great gift.
12StonesScott
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I don't have the construction details handy, and the final numbers we had included our tee signs (including the concrete and posts), but we installed 18 6' x 12' pads back in February, with volunteer labor (except for the guys on the concrete truck), for roughly $3000 for all materials (including the forms, etc.) and the truck and rental of equipment to get the concrete to several holes that the truck couldn't get to.
WillACarpenter
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All I know is that locally they want us to sponsor a tee for $250 each. If that gets us as nice of tees as we've gotten recently it's WELL worth it.
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There is no need for gravel or vapor barrier or rebar/mesh for almost any condition. Feel free to use it if you want, but it adds nothing except labor and cost.
The exception might be really unstable ground or if you anticipate cars/trucks driving over it a lot.
The exception might be really unstable ground or if you anticipate cars/trucks driving over it a lot.
I have seen tee pads locally get smashed by trucks in the park doing city work. Ironically, they were repairing side walks and smashing tee pads along the way by driving over them. Kind of ridiculous to see.
cold climates? the freezing and unfreezing if concrete cracks it. rebar holds it together longer
Also roots. If it is near any oaks or other trees that might send roots to upend the slab you want mesh in there to give it some extra strength. That is also why I would think why not go with 5 inches thick rather than 4? Then again, I am a little over the top because I want things to last. If you are going to do it, do it once and do it right. Not worth it to have to come back in a few years later and rework some of them. That costs more than doing it right the first time.
Lewis
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Wow. $3000 is a lot for a club to scrape together, though if you break it down, that's less than $200 per hole, which less than the baskets cost. I wonder how long it would take my club to set aside $3000 for concrete pads. Probably several years. 
rikardob
Eagle Member
Thanks for all the input guys. Anyone else personally put in pads?
12StonesScott
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Wow. $3000 is a lot for a club to scrape together, though if you break it down, that's less than $200 per hole, which less than the baskets cost. I wonder how long it would take my club to set aside $3000 for concrete pads. Probably several years.
Lewis, at ERP we managed it with sale of 9 hole/tee pad sponsorships at $300 each that brought in $2700, plus some additional funds from a fundraising tournament back in Jan. If we could sell the other 9 holes to sponsors, we could come up with enough to do one of the other two sets of pads (the tee signs for all 18 were included in that project, so we wouldn't need quite as much per hole next time around). Not easy, but possible.
Lewis
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I'd like to see the blues concreted at ERP. I'm sure my club will come up with something, but it just seems like such a big number for a 40-something member club to pull together, especially since we've got so much else to raise money for. We're probably going to devote most of our money over the next couple of years to course expansion rather than course improvement. We'd hate to put in concrete and then realize "oops, we should have changed the layout before we did this."
