FASTFOOT®
COST COMPARISON - FASTFOOT vs LUMBER
This calculator allows you to quickly calculate the full costs of forming footings with fabric (Fastfoot) compared with dimensional lumber. To see the assumptions and the JavaSript code for the calculator, click HERE.
The calculator looks at the following factors:
- Lumber cost (Fastfoot is much less than dimensional lumber)
- Labour rate
- Time to level the site for the footing lumber (Fastfoot doesn't require a level site)
- Time to carry lumber in, out and across the site (Fastfoot only uses 2x4s)
- Number of re-uses of the forming lumber and stakes (Fastfoot protects all lumber from concrete damage)
- Time to drive stakes
- Time to set up 2x4 screedboards and form lumber (2x4s are easy to set up)
- Time to install Fastfoot
- Time to strip forms (Fastfoot protects lumber from concrete, easy to strip)
- Time to clean forms (no form cleaning with Fastfoot)
You must input the lumber cost per thousand board feet of 2x10. The calculator then adjusts this cost to the different lumber sizes. For example, there is a premium for a 2x12 over 2x10 of approxmately 8%.
