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OK, So now that we have a few days to let the wall cure, back to the beginning. We bought this house as a foreclosure. It has a 3 car garage, which is even air conditioned! However, I needed a place to put my lift and tools etc. Ultimately the place to put the shop is to share the...

Thanks! Yeah, I kinda got ahead of myself with all of this. Now that we are down for a week, I plan to backup and show land and orientation to the house etc. As well as planning process. This was about a year of off and on planning to get to this point! Lots of lurking on this forum...

Forms off ready to sit for a week to strengthen before we start to fill it.

Actually, you do. Without a contract you can go to your local contracting board. If he isn't licensed or if he didn't get a permit, you typically don't have to pay ANYTHING. It is worth some time to find out. This is the passive-aggressive **** that is so common in the trades. They push...

Forms coming off this morning. They've only been on about 16 hours, but time to move to the next job. Very cool to see the walls steaming as the forms come off. For those that think that concrete "dries" vs "cures" checkout the thermometer pics of the ground on the 68 degree morning vs the...

Poured the walls today. The deep/tall walls are 10" thick the shorter ones are 6" thick. We will have a slab ledge on the 10" walls so the slab is tied into the wall. We will use rebar pins to lock everything together. The deepest wall is about 7' high on top of 2' of footer!

After about a year of delays we are finally ready to build our garage and shop. We kicked around all sorts of different places to put it and ultimately decided for convenience and cost to put it 90 degrees from the existing garage so it can share the same pad. We decided to do an attic truss...

I am also looking at white in my shop. About 3200 sqft and it is a car shop. I had grey with specs and it is like camoflauge for anything I dropped on the floor. I figure if White is good for NASCAR and F1 it is OK for me. Local places are quoting $4/sqft. Last shop I did densifier which...