Building myself a 36x30 pole building garage

[srleen2]

Started my new project about a month ago by tearing down the old 1905 carriage building turned 1 car garage that was leaning.

Old garage


After getting that demo'd and hauled I started tearing up the existing slab. I figured that would be pretty easy with a jack hammer - but there were actually 3 different slabs from over the years where they just kept pouring new over old.





Getting that all torn up took forever, but I was able to use the old chunks for fill to fill some of the area for the new garage.




Drawing of new garage idea:

 

[drg5490]

Man what a lot of work that must have been

 

[matt_i]

Like your plans.

Not sure what kind of foundation you are planning, but I'd focus on getting rid of all that topsoil and grass that I see in the last pic. Those won't be stable materials underneath your concrete work. Also its my opinion that chunks of concrete greater than about 1-1/2" dia is fine for building a dam or changing the energy of stormwater, but not a good fill, as it can simply create blockages where it can't be completely filled around at first. Then, it cracks, transmitting a void. I tried to remove all chunks of concrete or asphalt and haul them in bulk via pickup truck to the dump, or 4-6 pieces each trash day.