Recent content by jolakki

Gotta be carefull when you install the drywall not to drive a screw through those wires.

You are making nice progress! :thumbup: That will be one sweet garage when its done.

Here is my garage from the outside. Still missing doors and some 4000 red bricks :) Blog on building a house in Finland (text is also in english) http://lepakko1.vuodatus.net/

Dust is whats wrong with plain concrete.

I dont quite understand what you mean by draining, since those sheets will be under the concrete. Concrete guy will level the floor so the water goes into those floor drains. Doesnt matter which way you lay them. Use the direction that needs less cutting of those foam sheets.

BASF has a product called Mastertop. http://www.productspec.net/products/19896/basf/mastertop-100.aspx I have Mastertop 100 in my garage, but since its not done yet I have no first hand experience what kind of abuse it can take. It's supposed to withstand studded tires etc. that epoxy cant...

There are different kind of foams and some of them can easily take the weight of vehicles.

Thats normal stuff here in FInland. Atleast 6 feet around the building plus vertical with 4inch styrofoam. If your slab is directly on the ground then 8 inches under the slab.

Thats a *big* garage you got there! Mind me asking but wont the moisture from the ground get to those wooden structures and start rotting them?

Wow and I thought we had it bad with 0,05€/kwh!

Hello from Finland, 270m2 (3000sq.ft) and 70m2 (750sq.ft) garage here and two of us will be living in it. Dont really know how much the heating will cost since the house isnt finished yet. I invested my money on geothermal heating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heating. It is pretty...

Great looking building you got there. Is it going to be insulated or just for summer use?

It's standard stuff here, 4inches of styrofoam under the slab. Keeps the heat from escaping to the ground under the slab. Unless you do that and have in floor heating, then you are actually heating the ground almost as much as your garage. It wont compress under the weight of the slab but mine...

That insulation under the slab is just something I never get used to when comparing to our requirements. Here in Finland its always minimum 10cm(4inches to you americans) EPS under the slab. I have garage of my own in the works and I will make a post about it when it gets a lil further. Thanks...

No steel in that slab?