My new garage

[commando1]

I have never built on sand so that would be a different game.

I Chit my pants when I saw the slab to my house after it was poured.
I said, "WTF? THAT'S IT?? This crap don't fly in New England "

Like he said.. Free floating slab on compacted sand - no rebar - no wet cure.

 

[polara71]

That does seem odd. Locally I see footings put on everything including out door fire pits. We have various heat/cool/rain cycles so I don't Know. The load of the structure also comes into play. I have never built on sand so that would be a different game.

Right, compaction rates and percentages, footings, hold downs, rebar, psi ..........puzzles me

 

[commando1]

Didn't mean to underestimate the guy, I have seen a couple damaged hoods because the mechanic didn't have problems before and then got a car that did interfere. the rafter systems in some of those prefab garage systems may be high enough for the top rail of the lift, but a long hood could extend up beyond that... and sorry, I worked for a german brand for a while as well as a couple domestics and many years in the aftermarket doing both general service and specialized repair... I try not to assume too much, I've seen too much go wrong...

Thank you.

 

[65Fury440]

Here is a pic of the soil anchors installed. They are what's used to hold down mobile homes. They are driven in with a 1/2" right angle drill.

The company I bought the building from would only give me a $500.00 discount to just buy the materials. Up north, you can buy pole barn or garage kits at any lumber store, not in sunny backwards *** FL.

As it turns out, best $500 ever spent. 3 guys showed up at 7am with a Dodge dually and a 40ish foot 5th wheel. They literally RAN back and forth unloading and flipping up arches.

I had the ground prepped and the 4x4s laid out.
It took 8 hours to put up the garage start to finish.

I tipped the job leader a couple bills before he started, and told him I'm picky, and wanted everything square, level and right. He was the only one who could speak english.

I am going with fiber reinforced 3000psi concrete and rebar.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

Hey, you dont know how to suck it in and work in tight quarters?
It's just like trying to crank up the landing gear when the F§$#ing yardman drops the trailers 6" apart.

My lift is in a 11x20 bay. Still beats floor jacks and stands.

Been on my handz 'n kneez crankin' 'um more then I care to remember. What I didn't mention waz that you must add to the equation workin' in ah sardine can when it'z 95* with about the same * of humidity. Thought I told you I are ah woosy. 'Til I moved down here all my Play Panz were HEATED AND A/Cd. It iz sooo inexpensive to go 1st class. The place we just left I had ah flag pole set next to the ploe Barn and If I waz out there the Mopar flag waz at full staff so all my local Car-Budz knew when the St Pauli waz cold even if the the place looked abandoned.

 

[65Fury440]

I hope to do this someday myself. Its going to be a PITA to deal with the city though. I have already looked into the code requirements and what battles I may have ahead. My biggest issue with a lift will be the maximum height allowed without a variance being granted is 11 feet. Depending on your ceiling height be real careful and make sure you have the clearance to put the car up with the hood open. the german cars open the hood to a 90 degree service position and I've seen those get in trouble even in some professional shops. If your at all tight to the ceiling or rafters, its still doable, but will need a little awareness and caution.

Yea I surprise myself sometimes and actually engage my brain..but dont count on it. The wall is at 12 foot and the pitch is 4/12. The trusses are scissor trusses so hopefully I can even get under the trucks. It will be a learning cueve for sure.

 

[Fratzog]

I am jealous.

Me too. Congrats!

 

[cantflip]

That does seem odd. Locally I see footings put on everything including out door fire pits. We have various heat/cool/rain cycles so I don't Know. The load of the structure also comes into play. I have never built on sand so that would be a different game.

At the risk of being awarded another title... Footings are generally poured in this part of Florida based on how much they support in wall weight. We don't have a frost line, where you do have a frost line you have to get below it or freeze cycles will cause whatever you built to "heave" sort of like a crappy side walk install that is uneven and sticking up all over the place. When I worked with my engineer on my addition I wanted everything overbuilt, left over from up north years. When the building inspector saw my 18' footing...which was more like 20" he asked of I was putting up a 2 story.
I have seen tons of house here where a patio became an addition without a permit. The 4" patio slab gets to be more like 2" at the edge in many cases and will crack under the wall load. I have done an underpour to correct one and that's part of what caused me to rebuild mine. For a building like this garage, the walls are tied down but the floor is open. when the slab is poured there is no weight on it from the structure. Fiber reinforced concrete doesn't require rebar or mesh of any kind, but even on house foundations I have seen them only rebar the edges. Most florida building codes are about uplift ever since Hurricane Andrew blew the roofs off so many houses in homestead. Lots of neighborhoods are built on low ground and the building site is raised with sand... don't believe its compacted well either because the only crew with a roller is the road crew. There have been areas that cheap builders left tree stumps in and sanded over, 5-20 years later the subsidence would break your slab. Without a freeze cycle we can build like this... as soon as you get north enough for a freeze risk footers become normal.

 

[Zymurgy]

Congrats on the new garage. I personally would have never bought my 300, without my garage to work on it. Very nice.

I have never heard anyone say, boy I wish I would have never built that garage, maybe bigger or taller, but never regret spending the money on it.

 

[livininharrow]

Thank you.
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lmfao. how do you come up with this stuff?

 

[commando1]

I think it here and * POOF * it appears out there. I dunno...