Recent content by fatkidracer

wow, again i am glad i live in the country! thank you again for sharing this build it is helping a lot of us with sloped lots!

just had an end of the day BS session with the engineer at the shop. he said a 125k budget should get it done. he has been to the house and he said even with my friends doing the work i would have 60k+ in just a retaining wall and fill. so i am on the right while still expensive track with...

can you post pictures? i understand if you can't since it's a clients house.

here is a screen shot of the whole property the green line is the "road" that goes to the pole barn shell. you can drive it in a car when it's dry, you need 4x4 to get up the hills in the wet.

oh i am not rich by any stretch of the imagination. like i said if i didn't by the place from the bank i would have never been able to afford it. the guy was trying to sell it for 450+K before the bank took it and i didn't pay close to that, so there is a lot of equity in the home now that it...

WOW! this is why i live in the country! thanks for taking the time to try and post something about your garage as i feel it will help me in my endeavor!

thanks for more pictures and the info on the floor. being tied into the house is cool but i am sure an added expense i don't need. that lower door looks to small to fit that dually through! i see you have an affinity for black powerful chevys, as do I!

oh i bet it's going to be every bit of 100k maybe a little more once outfitted. but to build a retaining wall big enough and fill and compact enough dirt to get a spot big enough for 2500sf of garage space + build the garage and make it look right will cost more. at least by my calculations...

this thread is like watching "this old house" i love it and love that you are keeping the old while blending the new!

here are some more pictures of the proposed site. hope they show the fall and lay of the land better.

great info and pictures! thank you! love the Z28! why the wired spacing on the far right door in the first picture? so you if i understand correct you have the planks with a membrane then pex and more concrete. man that must weigh a ton!

when i get home from work tonight i am going to take some more pictures to give everyone a better idea of the lay of the land.

i am thinking now i might have someone come in and spray the decking before the pour with some type of rhino type liner. there are a few mobile guys running around here sealing up metal impoundments around frack tanks.

i have a PE on staff here at the shop and several contractors who have done this type of work before (never cars up top but patios and the like)

do you think a properly poured and sloped upper floor with full length floor drains under each car would really leak to the lower level? this is something i have never thought of and why i started the thread.