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Hey everyone, its getting warmer here and the snow is melting, i'm gettin excited to start on my garage but first i've to get a sound base. I've got my railroad tie retaining wall done last fall & i've let it settle throughout the winter freeze. I'm getting ready to backfill it so even when the...

I think this may be a dumb question & i already know the answer but i'm going to put the PEX heating in my garage floor and i was wondering can you put the Racedeck type tile on the floor and have it still heat? or would the tile block all the heat? :lol_hitti

how do you determine where the block holes will be at when installing the vertical rebar in the floor???

so i've got a question though, how do these types of tiles hold up to grinding sparks or welding sparks & slag and heavy sharp metal dropped on or slid around on?

i'm working on this same problem in my backyard, my slope isn't near as bad as 25 degrees but i may have to add 4' to my back to bring it all up to grade, so far i've brought in 26 tons of fly ash and i'm working on building a retaining wall out of railroad ties, and alot of broke pieces of...

not be too far off topic but i'm planning on putting PEX in my floor but i'm restricted an electric water heater, is this a bad idea? i was really hoping to not run a gas line to my garage.....

I agree, just get the Ol' City Engineer to agree and we're set! :)

okay new news, after having several concrete contractors tell me i'm retarded for adding that ash over the top of all that crushed up concrete because obviously it'd be impossible to trench out due to caving in and hitting the concrete chunks i've decided to make it easy on me, checkbook, and...

okay i think i've got it figured out, i'm going to pour footings 42" deep but i'm going to do it without using any forms other than the ground and pour a couple of inches below the surface then use cement block to get it up out of the ground like i've seen done on here a ton of times. Only...

ok new news..... i told to the city engineer and he was full of good news not! since its over 720sqft i have to have 42" footings all the way around... or make it a pole barn then i can do whatever i want. Then of course the standard 5' from back lot line & the 4' from the sides and min. of 10'...

I was doing some dirt work this weekend cont. to build a retaining wall for my garage and a neighbor told me he thought the city would make me put footings in instead of a floating slab? has anyone heard this? i am calling the city engineer today & keeping my fingers crossed this isnt true :(...

yeah i have the cheapy's also and this one is the only one that's giving me troubles it seems to eat 8' bulbs :(

ooohhhh, i hate that since i just had 26 tons of that stuff brought in last week and got er' all leveled out etc.......you got any rope or something sharp i could jump on lol?

This is kinda off the subject but i have a 8' flourescent light and it was turning the ends of the bulbs black, then it went to flickering, and now it doesn't even come on...... is that the ballast i need to replace?

hey nitro, yeah this stuff looks just like sand aka 1/8" at biggest and tan when its dry. Can clay be added or put on top of this ash to help stabilize it?

yeah i was thinking about a single row of concrete blocks around the perimeter & i forgot about making the edges thicker so yeah i feel dumb now lol Thanks for your help!!!

thats my exact worry!! the reason i used the fly ash was because my buddy added 5' to his grade and built a 28 x 40' building on it and it was 1/2 the cost of other fill and it looks great to this day, but he's superman and everything he touches turns to gold........ me, i'm more like hermit...

yep your right i'm in Osky, thanks for the help guys! This maybe a stupid question but if understand this correctly, you just have the vertical board (forms) and put the vapor barrier & 2" insulation ****'ed up against the board, so when its all poured & forms are removed it'll look like...

I started another thread about building my future 24x36' garage on fly ash but i figured this is a different topic. once i get that problem figured out, this will be a concrete slab w/ PEX heating in it and my question is do i add the 2" pink insulation under my concrete slab or can that even be...

yeah i just read an article on the engineers stamp on the height of drop off etc. so i'm at my limit for height. One thing i for got to mention is where this drop off is in the back of the future garage is woods area and not my property so i have to be careful but for the most part as long as i...