Commercial Concrete Hamilton

$100 to $150 per square metre for a plain or broom finish slab, and $150 to $230 where the floor is built to an engineer detail. Hardstand and yard pavement run $110 to $170. Kerbing, wheel stops and drainage are quoted on the run and the profile. The three things that move a commercial number most are the floor class, the loading and what is under the slab. Every figure here is a guide current at August 2026 and the price comes back in writing after a site visit.

It comes off your racking height and your machines. Free movement areas are classed FM1 to FM5. FM1 is for reach trucks working above 13 metres at 4.5 mm levelness and 1.8 mm flatness. FM4 suits workshops with lift heights under 4 metres at 10 mm and 2.4 mm. FM5 is general use at 15 mm and 3 mm. Where machines run fixed aisles the DM classes apply instead. Tell us the lift height and we will tell you the class.

Council approves and inspects the crossing and we build it. Hamilton City Council sets a commercial or industrial crossing at 5 metres minimum and 7.5 metres maximum measured at the property boundary, where a residential crossing runs 3 to 5.5 metres, and the crossing material has to match the existing footpath. The crossing is approved before construction and inspected while it is open. We allow for the approval and the inspections in the programme and build to the published regional detail.

Yes, and most commercial jobs run that way. We pour in bays so one section cures while the rest of the floor or yard keeps working, and we set the joint layout so the bay edges land where they will not be crossed constantly. Night and weekend pours are an option where the operation cannot give up floor space at all. Tell us the shifts you run at the site visit and the sequence gets built around them.

Foot traffic after a day or two, staying off the edges and corners. When the floor can take vehicles, forklifts, racking loads and stock depends on the mix, the weather, how the slab has been cured and what the engineer requires for the job, so we give you the loading dates for your floor rather than a standard number. Concrete is commonly assessed against its specified 28-day compressive strength, although strength development continues afterwards. The floor is cured for seven days from the pour, and the surface can be surveyed against its class within 28 days.

It is designed, not standardised. A residential driveway has a published minimum and an industrial floor does not, because the thickness comes off wheel loads, racking leg loads and the subgrade. The mix and the thickness both come off the engineer detail for your floor. Anyone quoting you an industrial floor thickness before asking what runs on it has skipped the only question that decides it.

Because a joint is an edge, and hard wheels hit edges. A sawn joint that has ravelled leaves an unsupported arris, the wheel loads break it back further, and the damage widens every week the floor runs. The fixes are a stiff joint filler that carries the arris, armoured joints where crossings are constant, and a joint layout that keeps edges out of the main wheel paths in the first place.

Yes. Feed pads, silage bunkers, dairy yards, implement sheds and farm hardstand across the Waikato and Waipa districts. Effluent and silage liquor attack concrete harder than traffic does, so falls, joint sealant and cover over the steel carry more weight in the design than the surface finish. Bunker walls take lateral load from the stack and impact from the loader, so those go to an engineer design.