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I bought these plans: Behm design 975-6 Thus the 39’ length. Intent was originally 40 anyways. I’ve heard folks say “it should be divisible by 4” multiple times, and my own experience has been I end up cutting wood anyways, no good way about it. The 33’ thing doesn’t scare me. What does scare...

You’re not wrong. Someone who starts a machine shop in Vermont is a specific kind of person, and I fit that bill. I don’t want to have access to a city’s worth of customers and suppliers, I just want to do my thing and ship parts. This day and age, customers can be anywhere, so that’s a bonus.

Sort of. The footer pour went well, but we had a blowout on one end. The person who caught it stacked rocks and actually over-compensated, so we had a high spot. One footer was staked a bit too narrow, so we squared everything to that footer within 1”. When we laid more courses of ICF, I’m...

Slab on grade. We have quite a bit of fill to do. I didn’t cut exits for the bay doors, so planning on sloping to internal drain. Better that way in case a machine leaks so it doesn’t stain the bottom of the door with oil. Radiant floor heat, 8” thick. Joint is somewhat TBD; I think I’ll just...

About 1-1/2" yea. Thanks guys. I’ve been stressing on this one a bit. There’s plenty of info out there that says the foundation should be square, not much about what to do when it’s not.

Northern Vermont. Snow load is 50# here. To Kaymccambells and The Cobbler's points, it's about an inch overhang with a 2x6. I've had this in CAD 10 ways to Sunday, I just don't know how much overhang, if any, is acceptable. The image below: Blue lines are square sill plate, dotted lines are...

Hi! I screwed up, hard. The short of it is: we're trying to build a garage for my machine shop equipment that has to move. Screw up #1: It was supposed to be 39x32; I laid this out on center, and now it's 40x33. Not a big deal. Bigger deal is the entire frost wall is out of square by 8" (if I'm...

Hi! It's cold up here. Building a new garage for my machine shop and looking for advice after some major screw-ups.