Recent content by KellyM77

So I have made some other posts on with some of the issues with my new shop slab. We have not had the shop erected yet. We asked for a garage floor smooth finish in the concrete. The contractor used the polisher but did not do a very good job at getting it smooth. See photos. So my question for...

Great info. I have never thought of dowels as smooth or rebar. So this brings another question. My concrete contractor really screwed up this slab and we have to add 6” to one end. I never questioned weather or not to use dowels for this. So the footing is currently 12” wide but will soon have...

I know there are applications where using dowels is the right thing when adding concrete and other times when expansion joint should be used. I’ve had a patio extended and the contractor used dowels the new patio moved and busted the old existing concrete in the area of the dowels. Now I have...

I am going to build something very similar to what’s in this photo I always tend to overbuild frame will be made of 1x1 square aluminum originally was going to use 8 gauge wall but feel it’s probably my normal overkill do you all believe 16ga 1x1 aluminum square tube is adequate