Comment by werdnapk
5 years ago
I just built a 5x5 box for my kids and was also surprised by the cost of the play sand. Did a little shopping around though and I think I spent $200 CDN to fill the box. Most places I think were selling for $10-13/bag, but I ended up finding $5/bag play sand.
Buying by the bag is the problem right there. All these things get so much cheaper if you can transport 1 tonne bulka-bags. 20/40kg bags of anything all cost about the same because the bagging is the cost.
The trouble unless you're tooled up for it, 1 tonne bags are near impossible to move, and double in price to have delivered, where they are still impossible for you to move except incrementally.
Interestingly the 1.5 tonne tray capacity on the Cybertruck would be appealing for exactly that reason - you'd actually have a vehicle which can actually carry that (ute I borrowed from my inlaws caps out at 750kgs).
Case in point: In the UK I can buy 20kg bags of sand from Amazon for ~10-20GBP, or a 1000kg for ~50 GBP. Both including delivery. I still ended up buying a bunch of 20kg bags last summer, exactly for the reasons you point out - 1 ton was too much and impossible for me to move other than by bagging it up myself...
That seems a bit low. Here in SA most of our most sold bakkies can carry around 1 to 1.3 tons.
try leaching on another delivery... find a small construction site near you and nicely ask to pay for a partial delivery. Some hardware stores might even suggest that