New detached garage 24X28 with 2nd floor and bathroom

[lpigg]

Hey guys, not alot to update cause of all the rain and mud. We did run power, water, and sewer this weekend. I am hoping that we pour the floor on Thursday. I do need some advice. I have read on here where some people recommend watering the concrete after it is poured to help the curing process. How often and when do you do that? Also, I am planning on putting up some interior walls for the bathroom. How soon can I start those? I will be anchoring them to floor. Can I do them on Saturday if I pour on Thursday?

Thanks, I will post some pictures when the floor is done.

[thammel]

Hi,

The longer you can keep the concrete wet, the better. I'd want to keep it moist for a week. People accompish this by putting plastic over it or simply hosing it down. Some use a sprinkler. This maximizes its strength and minimizes the odds of surface cracking.

Since your framing is done, carefully hosing down is probably the best approach. I was leery of using plastic on my pad because if any impressions made by the plastic, although unlikely by the time I would be able to get it in place.

I'd wait to do the interior walls.

[Ord]

Originally Posted by lpigg

Some pictures of the inside along with the begining of the bathroom. We plan on getting everything stubbed in on Sunday. Not sure when we will dig the trench to the house. We have about 100 feet to the house and there was to much of an elevation drop so we installed a small lift.

Can you tell me more about this? The place I am thinking of building would mean about 70 feet from the garage to the septic tank, and I may need something similar.

[lpigg]

Originally Posted by Ord

Can you tell me more about this? The place I am thinking of building would mean about 70 feet from the garage to the septic tank, and I may need something similar.

It is a small lift that works alot like a sump pump. The only reason I needed it was because there was so much drop in the elavation of the back yard. We had about a 5 foot drop and we needed to be 3 foot undergorund due to the frost line and we needed to go down into our basement and by the time we put a small slope in the sewer line we would of dug under the basement floor. I am not well versed in plumbing but it seemed to make sense to me when they said I needed one. The extra cost was about $500 and it wasn't much more than the extra cost of trying to hook into the sewer line in the middle of the road. I don't think I would have needed this if the back yard would have been realtively flat within a 2 or 3 foot drop in elavation.