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After the trenches were filled back in, the excavator started building the pad. He put down cloth first due to the issues we had with soft ground and water table. Heavy equipment would cause pumping and turn the ground quickly into mush. The fabric under the pad apparently prevents that from...

So it turns out we have a really high water table. The area that the above picture shows was a gravel driveway behind the house that never saw water. But even there the water table was about 2 feet down. I worried about it, but talking to some local contractors and the excavator they all said...

Immediately the excavator ran into problems with the soil. He had to strip off the grass and topsoil, and the ground was so wet that everything but the bulldozer was sinking. Months of watering the lawn, a creek behind our property, and being surrounded by fields that get flood irrigated...

I've been wanting a shop for years now and my wife and I pulled the trigger earlier this year. Our house is a decent size, but with 5 kids it gets small fast, especially during the winter. The attached garage quickly fills up despite my best efforts to keep it clean. We sit on 1.5 acres of...

LLWillysfan - Thanks for the info and for the links. I've been doing a lot of reading through those the past day. Haugy - I'm on the east side of the Cascades, which means I'm basically in desert. No humidity here. So I won't be dealing with the condensation issues that you have struggled...

I definitely don't deal with the extreme temps that you do. We do get down to the teens and single digits occasionally, but that's only for a week or so. I doubt I'll be doing much work in the shop at that point. The builder (one of those companies that does pole buildings only) says they...

Hi guys, Complete newbie here. I've searched for an answer, but haven't found anything that gives me a firm answer. New shop is hopefully going up in the next month or so. 36'x72' with 14' walls pole building. For the floor I'm doing 6" concrete slab, 2" foam around the outside perimeter as...