Concrete Slab Cost | Foundation Cost for our Self-Build Home

Here's a detailed cost breakdown of our slab foundation. Concrete slab costs can vary depending on size, detailed specs, labor hired out, and material prices at the time of building. We are owner builders so we were able to save lot of money by doing most of the labor ourselves.

Keep an eye out for a blog with links to all of the materials and tools we used during this portion of our project.

00:00 Intro and foundation design
01:38 Costs for slab foundation materials & labor
09:19 Costs for foundation-specific tools
11:03 Summary and Outro (w/ surprise gift)

If you’re new here, WELCOME 👋 We have an entire playlist on our house project thus far so you can easily binge watch those and catch up to where we are now!

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ABOUT US: We are Alex and Elaina, a couple in our 20s who are currently living on the 3-acre farm in southern Pennsylvania where Alex grew up. We have a garden, backyard chickens, and build or fix anything that we need to. We still work corporate day jobs, but are working to eventually leave the 9-5 lifestyle in favor of a self-built, debt-free, homestead on 6 acres nearby.

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[keithprinn]

as long as you are happy that is what counts, your labour and project management 20K easy all saving. congrats

[averagelivingLife]

Great job guys. Sounds like a awesome record system. Price sounds great too. Even though I'm in a different area, I can still compare prices

[cameronreuss]

Dude, this is great information. Thank you for putting this together !

[allansmith]

you keep incredible records and the prices were extremely reasonable. We had to buy like 200 concrete caps and I swear they were a fortune

[annettehough]

Good job on keeping excellent records. One day your grandchildren will look back at this and marvel at your work.
Seriously, you are doing fantastic and your beautiful helper ain’t bad either. I mean Elaina, not Georgie, by the way.

[xLong_Johnson]

a budget from someone who went the extra mile to get quality, perfect.

[PDZ]

Hm, I'll have to think about a dirt floor with maybe some trash bags for carpeting as a cheaper alternative.

[claytonsmith]

Thanks for putting together such a detailed cost breakdown. Good job. Subscribed.

[andresg]

Such a good video man! Thank you for putting all this information 🤩

[Dorchwoods]

That's a good price, foundations are insane these days. I'm going to be doing a crawlspace and I'm hoping it's a bit cheaper but we shall see

[schrodingerscat]

30-09-2023 I will just say thank you (and hit the like).

[robertnelson]

Thanks for the breakdown it was very helpful for what I want to do

[jennymcdermitt]

Hey just found your channel last night I have been binge watching.

[ggdrywallllc]

thank you for all the info i love your channel so glad i found it
i will be building my house soon
and getting an rv just like you guys lol

[dahay]

Thank you for sharing! This will definitely help me with my self build new home

[jameswright-]

one thing I would like to ask you. I have always found it difficult to accept the idea of running the utility lines under the concrete (especially footings and other sensitive areas). Have you considered running the lines in a way that would allow them to be buried deep and insulated and enter the sides of the house in locations where they are needed, but at the same time allow access if something goes wrong? Or is that something that building codes prohibit, do you know?

[ramble_on]

Thanks for sharing with us! I feel $15/sqft is still kind of high when you put all cost in. I thought slab on at the highest should be $10/saft

[davidt]

Tools are sellable. Now subtract the YouTube revenue ;)

Good down to earth honest info thank you

[TheMindOfOpex]

Crazy expensive! But if you got that throw away money, better to do it this way

[msparacino]

Curious why you didn’t do a Shallow Frost Proof Foundation. I’m in Pa also