Rural and Farm Concrete Hamilton

$110 to $170 per square metre for a plain yard, feed pad or hardstand slab. Silage bunkers, dairy yard rebuilds and effluent structures are quoted per job, because wall design, stack height and drainage move those numbers far more than area does. The three things that shift a farm number most are the subgrade, the amount of shaping the falls need, and whether we are pouring around a working dairy. Every figure here is a guide current at August 2026 and the price comes back in writing after a site visit.

Concrete or a similar impervious material, yes. The Ministry for Primary Industries code NZCP1 requires all floors of a farm dairy, including the yards, to be built that way, uniformly graded, cleanable after every milking and draining to an outlet connected to the effluent system. It also requires farm races to be concrete for 10 metres out from the milk receiving and milk storage areas. We build to that code and set the falls to suit it.

1 in 50 is the minimum recommended fall for yards, and 1 in 80 for other areas, both from NZCP1. That sounds small until you set it out across a large yard, which is why it gets surveyed and boxed rather than eyeballed. A yard that ponds is a yard that cannot be cleaned properly after milking, and it is the most common thing we get called back to fix on someone else’s work.

Yes, and most dairy jobs run that way. We pour in sections so the herd keeps moving and the yard stays usable, and we agree before the job starts which part is out of action on which day. Night and early pours are an option where the yard cannot give up any space at all. Tell us your milking times at the site visit and the sequence gets built around them.

It is designed, not standardised. The thickness comes off the machinery that works the pad, the subgrade underneath and how the pad is used, so a pad taking a loaded tanker and a loader is a different build to one carrying stock and a small tractor. Tell us what runs on it and what is under it, and the thickness follows from those two answers.

Because they are attacked from two directions at once. Effluent and silage liquor are chemically harder on cement paste than water is, and the surface is under wheel and hoof traffic while it is wet. The three defences are cover over the steel, sealed joints where liquid crosses them, and falls that get the liquid off the surface instead of letting it sit. Those cost more up front and they are the difference between ten years and three.

Yes, to an engineer design. The walls take lateral load from the silage and impact from the loader bucket, so wall thickness, steel and footing size come off the stack height you work to. The floor is built to shed leachate to a collection point. Bring us the stack height and the loader you run and we will get the design priced with the concrete.

Hamilton City and out through the Waikato and Waipa districts. Farm work takes us further out than our residential jobs do, and concrete is priced delivered, so a pour well past the district boundary carries more cartage than one on the city fringe. Tell us where you are at the first call and we will be straight about whether we are the right people for it.