Recent content by SeanD

Re: Rick's Audi Double Do you have a picture of the back side of the sample card?

Re: Rick's Audi Double Thanks. Most of the Rona closed up out here because of the Home Depot and Lowes invasion.

Re: Rick's Audi Double What is the light grey paint colour name that you used on the walls? I am about to start painting my new garage and I am looking for a nice light grey colour to use.

That's one way to maximize floor space.

What do you mean, this will greatly increase the likelihood of cracking.

Thanks Dennis. I was originally planning on 5" thick all around. I am going to just drop that down to 4" which saves a little concrete and then increase the lift section thickness to 8". I will be saving a few bucks, since it is still less concrete than the whole floor being 5" thick. I will...

I am getting so confused on what is the correct thing to do now. I am about to give up on even considering doing a lift now.

I was planning originally n having them put in wire mesh. Should I just for-go the wire mesh and have them put in rebar?

Is it bad to just have them lay the rebar through out the slab say 12" on center? I don't think I have the patience to get them to follow a special layout design. I know I can get special drill bits to drill through rebar. Will I have any issues with the epoxy anchors after drilling through...

Hey Dennis. I told the contractor to put in a 4' x 12' pad 6" thick with #4 rebar 12" on centre. Should I really be adding 2 more inches to the thickness? MaxJax documentation states 4-1/4" required.

I am getting different reasons now to not put down the vapour barrier. The company I have dealt with in the past that will be putting down my epoxy floor, is telling my not to put down the vapour down as it will cause moisture to be trapped between the epoxy side and the vapour barrier. I...

That sound like a lot of work. I was just planning on 6" depth for the lift pad, so wouldn't the included 4" anchors be fine then? They were going to put rebar in that pit area. Pre-planning the location of the rebar is going to be too much for me to do with the builder. I thought the rebar...

The builder said the concrete company recommended against it or wouldn't do it. I have heard that it can cause the concrete finishers grief when laying the floor. I am going to be doing epoxy on floor after it cures.

Hi, I am building a house with a 26' 11" wide by 28' 1" deep garage. I want to have a MaxJax 2 post lift in the garage in the future. I have been talking to the builder about concrete thickness. We originally were planning on doing 5" throughout with wire mesh. The concrete will be 32 mpa...

Thanks everyone for your input. I talked to the contractor and they talked to their concrete people and they don't refer to the strength in PSI but in MPa. There is a conveter for it though. They said they will be putting in 32 MPa concrete, which comes out to 4641 PSI. I have asked them to...