Recent content by 723Monolythic

This is what I have been thinking, and why I asked the contractor for a quote on the Perma-Columns to begin with. This is the direction I will go. Thanks to everyone.

Cost is about $4000 more to use Perma-Columns. The Green Posts are what the contractor normally uses. I was requesting the Perma-Columns.

Central Virginia. Gets Dry in the winter, and hot and humid in the summer.

I am getting ready to contract a pole barn garage, and have the choice of using either Perma-Columns, or a "Green Post". I have never heard of a Green Post before, but the idea seems sound. They can be found here: www.planetsaverind.com The idea is a regular treated, laminate post, coated with...

By the way, code in my area allows a monolythic pour, or footer, stem wall, then slab...either way.

by stemwall, I mean the thickend edge of the slab. I plan to have the slab floor level with the wall/edge. I do plan on control joints, either way. I just haven't hears od doing it the way he described. All the searches I have looked at on the net describe either a full monolythic pour, or...

Hello all. I've got a question about a concrete slab. I'm building a 16' x 24' workshop/garage. I'm currently working on the slab. Currently, I have a trench 2 ft wide dug 18 inch deep around the perimeter. My contractor/neighbor wants to pour a footer approx. 8" thick, THEN later on form the...