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its not living above, used to be an office and woodworking shop but it's nothing now.

I am redoing an older garage which has a floor that has seen better days. Its crumbling on one side and the other is cracked some. Does this matter much with these floors? Can I just lay them down over this and be done with it? Here are some pics, although its worse then the pics show. The dust...

I have no clue, it's never been opened by me. I am pretty sure nothing though. It came from my family's store when they sold the business, you can't tell from the picture but its MASSIVE. I am not sure how they got it in there 30 years ago. After reading some more, and more I keep getting new...

I don't care much for the open ceiling, plus I want everything down there sealed up as best I can from everything else.

what osb thickness are you all doing on inside walls with r15 insulation? this seems like it would be pretty easy to do with my setup right now

I know it wasn't built in the 40's or 50's. The farm house was built in the 50's and it came after that for sure. I have seen pictures of it not there. It looks like I could go up about a foot or so on the doors, which would give me enough room I think. I am hoping to get it all cleaned out...

thanks for the input guys, just what I was looking for. I am thinking osb for the walls and try and do a ceiling with it to enclose it from everything? Much simpler and easier, any thoughts? Any idea on what the cost of the concrete would be just to fix and not re pour it all?

kinda what i was afraid of... any other ideas?

Ok guys, I have been lurking on this site for quite awhile and wanted to get some opinions on my situation. This garage was built I would guess in the mid 70's ish by my grandfather, it was used frequently untill the mid 90's. It has basically just sat since then with little use other then...

Anyone have any other real world experience with these that are garages and not just carports? I am looking into them as well.

any other opinions ?

I'm very new to solid sound structures, would there be a way to eliminate the post in the middle and it still be sound? they really get in the way

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I have been lurking on here for awhile and just now registered and you guys have some really nice shops. I am wanting to see what you all think about this pile I have. Let me start by saying I just want a place in the winter to wrench, weld, etc.... that is enclosed in somewhat, basically I want...