Recent content by hoppsxc140

Lots of other variables to consider than just framing materials. Is the builders quote a turnkey package? (Permits,taxes,cleanup,site plan, etc). As previously stated the excavation can also be an area driving up the price. Cut or fill amounts, gravel under the slab, off haul/disposal fees. I...

I work for a paving/material supply company so some days I’ll walk 10 miles on a grind and pave or chip seal job, others I might spend all day in the quarry. I’ve been wearing Whites since 2006 and recently bought my first pair of Nicks. If you can swing the cost, a custom boot is the way to...

Porous asphalt is designed for water to flow through. Any typical DOT or commercial mix is intended to be impervious and lives the longest being protected. No one is out promoting drilling through driveways or parking lots to “get the flow through back” Sealing is used all over the country...

Yes 50*27=1350/30=45/60= .75’

Get as many quotes as possible, I when I built my 36x60 pole building I called 5 builders. 3 took plans and 2 returned prices, one was 25G and change the other was 58. I called the 58 to make sure he understood I only wanted the shell and 2 man doors and he confirmed. Signed with the low guy the...

All of our posts are in concrete. I wouldn’t trust a contractor to do a good enough job compacting with native materials. Think of the utility crossings in a paved road, the bump isn’t from the patch job, it’s from poor compaction underneath and settling over time.

Correct, the building height is based off of the high side. So the OP could push all the fill off the building pad and the 18" is still there. 12ft sidewall + 36" depth + 18" of grade means that corner always required at minimum a 16.5ft post.

They always had to be longer. Regardless if the fill was placed before the post or after.

I could understand a charge for additional concrete if the site condition changed after the quote was issued, but that is a small cost. I didn't see a height listed but if it was going to be 12 ft sidewalls it would be 12 ft from the highest point with the gap Pig9r described above. If not there...

Skip the air tamper and use a gas or diesel powered jumping jack from the same rental place.

Heat tape and a spigot cover on the outside. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Hard-Faucet-Cover-1981/204759083

I wanted to share my build since I've gathered many ideas from everyone else. First a little back story. I purchased a 4 bedroom, 2 bath 1700 sq ft, 2002 manufactured home on 2 acres in 2006, It was a foreclosure and I paid 96,000. At the dead end of a gravel road and surrounded by the back of...

Depth is irrelevant when it comes to confined space. https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9797

Here is another option, especially if driving into it is extremely unlikely. http://www.incord.com/baynets/truck-service-bay-covers.htm

I can't dig up this invoice but they were right under $6,000.00 for 11 units. 3 of these were standard items. The cost in all of these included the 1ft precast concrete section, engineering and construction on the 8 non standard sizes. The company that sold me the structures doesn't manufacture...