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Thanks everyone for the advice, I am thinking of doing 4'x13' area where the lift will be located, I will make that area 2 inches deeper. That would work? I will route the rebar in a way so it won't be a conflict with the anchor bolts. Same with the pex for heating.

Any recommendations? I worked with quite a few atlas in the 90's and early 2000's, I liked them, might go with them if they're good still.

So I am prepping my shouse for concrete. The shop will have 4 inch concrete on top of 2 inch foam with #3 or #4 rebar. I want to prep it for 2 post lift, how would I do this? I have not decided on a 2 post lift yet. I do want 9k-11k and max ceiling is 12'. Should I make a tub or just 4 inch of...

Thank you everyone for the advice, I have thought this out very well and made a plan to do this, due to the short time window to winter, I have decided to just hire out for part of the project. So the hire will do half, and I will do the other half at a other time. That other half is not really...

Thank you all for the advice. I am curious what is the worst that could happen if we do the concrete ourselves? The mix is ready mix so I don't need to do anything to it just pour and shape it however we want to.

Hi everyone! I began building a 40'x104'x12' post frame building in May with help from family and friends. We have the structure up already, just need to do the concrete. I am doing all the prep work, 10mil vapor barrier, 2" rigid foam, 1/2" pex for in slab floor heating, #3 rebar, make forms...

I believe the sand that is used is called fill sand. Once its wetted and packed level, the surface is pretty solid that it feels like cement. It's almost like class 5 but rocks are smaller. It just is terrible material for wheeled vehicles if you turn the wheel it will break it up. But If going...

Its all sand, turned out that the builders had the lift on flat ground switch not incline switch. It was a rental lift, they called the rental place next day and found out about that. then it was fine for the rest of the week.

we had to use shovel, i would say worst was 10 inches in like 3 to 5 spots

So I hired someone to build the pad, it is all sand, then the builders got the lift stuck on the pad few times. I have already leveled it off with my tracked skidsteer. I am not sure if I should have the pad compacted again before the concrete comes? slab will be 40'x104'x4"

I originally was going to go with laminated columns embedded in the ground sitting on top of 20"x6" round precast footing that is 6 feet down in hole, set posts in then fill back with sand. The ground is all sand and we have 5-foot frost depth here in north central Minnesota, Ground snow load...

Thanks everyone for the responses! Maybe I should have given a little more detail. I will be erecting the structure with my family and my friend who is a licensed contractor. Will have 2 or 3 of his guys helping out to just get the roof completed. then me and the family will do the rest...

So I am building a 40'x104'x12' post frame shop, 40'x24' will be living space, I do not really want to have living space at 12' ceilings as I live in north central Minnesota, that 12' ceiling would be waste of heating. How can this be done?

slab will have vapor barrier on ground that goes over 2 inch foam barrier around the perimeter the 2" foam barrier will extend down 2'. After that is done, 2 inch foam on top of the vapor barrier then pex, and rebar go on. It will be 4" thick slab for all 3 sections. I am only able to fit R19...

Me and 2 of my friends are starting up a business on a land we purchased together. The building is going to be a 40'x104'x10' and it will have 3 sections, one 40'x24' for living/office, 40'x24' for shop/prep room, 40'x56' farm building (aquaculture) . Building will not have any overhangs, there...

I am confused too, was hoping someone would chime in with answers by now. I am wondering the exact same thing as I have whole bunch of Akro bins in the storage and want to put it in use.

It's going to be a 40x88x17 Shouse, the shell will be built first, then build the 40x26 living space with 2nd floor that is more of a entertainment/guest room rather than daily uses. I am wondering if it would be worth it to put blown insulation in between the floor trusses before installing the...

Yes there will be 2 load bearing walls, one 9'6" wall at 11'4"oc and other 21' wall at 17'3"oc with 3' 6" long beam at one end, and 7' long beam on other end. This is good to hear that I can build load bearing wall within between the posts. The posts are 8'oc spacing.

So I am constructing a 40'x88' post frame Shouse with 16' walls, 40'x26' will be the living space. I want to add 16" engineered floor trusses to be able to add a 2nd level area. I am aware that, with common trusses, the 2nd floor height will be less than 7'. It'll have 2 extra spare bedrooms...

Hi so I have this issue with my heating, I am not sure if the issue is the heater itself or the ecobee4 thermostat. The ecobee4 keeps on rebooting during heating. The heater keeps running when the ecobee4 reboots makes me think it's the ecobee4. I checked the homeiq online and you can see it...