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Getting ready to form up my concrete. Gonna have some sidewalks and a 20x10 approach. Wondering if I should break it up into 2 pours. I plan on installing rebar pins and adding a lot of rebar. I wanna just have one pour of 4.25 yards w fiber mesh. Anyone with experience doing this? Thanks

Hello all. I have been reading hundreds of these threads and have learned a lot. My garage has a 45 foot run of 1.5 and 2 inch pvc conduit. My electrician wants to use 2224 al wire. (which I'm good with). We plan on putting a 100 amp breaker in my main house panel to feed the new garage. My...

Racking my brain here on how to get my 9 foot tall garage door its headroom of 12 inches. The flat slab is poured w no curb. My plan so far is to make my wall 10 feet 6 inches. The LVL my plans call for is a 16 inch. So I thought of a double top and bottom wall plates. (single top over the...

Yes 10 foot 6 inch wall. Double top AND bottom plates to get me my 9 foot door. I thought to add wind strength to my corners I could nail on vertically a 10’ 6” x 4’ sheet. The 12 foot x 4 foot osb is costly but wondering if worth it? OR would blocking do the same thing w 4x8 sheets????

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Anyone familiar with heat trace? I am thinking bout running 90 feet inside a 4 inch schedule 40 pvc, that's only under the ground bout a foot on average in southern wi. Thanks Which brand and type have you used and results?

Finally started my garage :) Waiting on my inspector to bless my plans. Anyone know if you can tie a drain tile (4" perforated)(in green) into a yard catch basin drain? Will a 3 inch floor drain piping work? or will he request 4?

Here's a pic for rebar and footings. I see some do verticals every 2 feet and some w 4 feet spacing. I was thinking of a 8x16 footer w 2 horizontal rebar runs and then every 4 ft. a vertical with the L shaped. Using #4 1/2 inch rebar and overlapping 24 inches. Any concrete guys on here want to...

Newbie building a 26x40x12 garage. My codes limit me to 1050 ft2 and 18 feet tall. I also have to take down my 14x16 garden shed :( I am in Southern WI and plan on a 8x16 footer w 8 in poured wall. Gonna dig 48inches on the footer and place a 6 foot wall on that. Then go up w ten foot walls. W a...