Foreward 2 post lift?

[no704]

Getting plans ready to submit to the city. Tring to figure out placement of control joints. Slab will be about 36x48. Place I used to work at had Foreward 2 post lifts that I used and liked. Just looked at their website and they are selling for like $6k. Seems a little rich for a home shop. Would really like to have no joints in the slab but not sure that’s a good plan. I’m sure I could find an offshore lift for half the cash. Any recommendations? Sorry this is kinda two questions but they are very related. Planing on doing a 6” pour for the full slab. This will be in Tempe AZ so no cold weather concerns.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Neil

 

[u2slow]

Check some lift specs for how far from cracks and control joints you have to be. I positioned my lift closer to the OH door than most recommendations - fine for my shorter vehicles. For a longer vehicle I can vacate the 2nd spot and back in instead.

If you want/need good rebar in the slab, you may have to get in your contractor's face about it. Mine thought driveway mesh should be plenty - thankfully I got that resolved in time.

 

[AC-WC]

Start here-https://www.bendpak.com/media/wysiwyg/Concrete-Slab-Requirements-BendPak-2019.pdf
It's an excellent reference for any lift.

 

[no704]

Link doesn’t work. I’m working on possibly taking my largest vehicle (2500 suburban) to the old employer and setting it up on one of the lifts there to get a better feel for the footprint.

 

[no704]

I also plan on having machine tools like a Bridgeport and lathe in there.

 

[AC-WC]

Not sure what I did but just paste it into your browser and it will work.

 

[Cairo94507]

We just poured, last month, our 6-7" 4300 PSI 36x44 garage floor. We had it power growled and the saw cut for expansion joints. I think they come out nicer than hand trowled expansion joints. You have to have joints to control cracking. We have 2 pits (14" deep and filled with rock, rebar and then 10" of concrete for the mid-rise scissor lift, so it will be a flush to the floor install with all lines run in a case to the cabinets for the controls and hydraulics. We also have a 2-post lift that we will place once we get cabinet layout.