RoadNames
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Greetings one and all from a new member to the forum. I am a retired Journeyman Lineman just living the dream on a little place south of Santa Fe NM, near Lamy and the Amtrak station. We have been building a new garage on our place and it's coming along nicely, now getting ready to decide on some of the finishes we will use. My wife and I have built the entire garage and a large covered patio pretty much on our own over the past 3 years. We did contract out the concrete work, the stucco finish and a PVC membrane roof, but we did literally every other part of this as DIY.
So far, it's been a lot of hard work, but fun, too. We added a 32' x 40' garage to front of the existing oversize 2 car garage. We used a material called Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (AAC) to build the walls above the ICF stem wall and had trusses custom made by a company in ABQ. The truss design allows for a 40' long free span, so no intermediate posts or columns are in the garage anywhere. The center truss was engineered to support 1,000 pounds at any point along the 40' span, so I can safely use this truss to rig a hoist for heavy lifts, like pulling an engine and such.
We are just now waiting for the roofing contractor to show up and get a roof on it, maybe starting tomorrow. We are starting to narrow down our ideas on the rest of the finishes, especially the flooring. Right now it's a bare concrete slab that was placed about 2 years ago - we've been working on it that long, no kidding... I am interested to learn what works and what doesn't as far as durable surface for automotive type "working surface" that still might have a nice visual appeal - like acid stain with a clear coat of some kind. Not gonna just paint it, we want something different but durable and low maintenance.
So, what do you suggest?
So far, it's been a lot of hard work, but fun, too. We added a 32' x 40' garage to front of the existing oversize 2 car garage. We used a material called Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (AAC) to build the walls above the ICF stem wall and had trusses custom made by a company in ABQ. The truss design allows for a 40' long free span, so no intermediate posts or columns are in the garage anywhere. The center truss was engineered to support 1,000 pounds at any point along the 40' span, so I can safely use this truss to rig a hoist for heavy lifts, like pulling an engine and such.
We are just now waiting for the roofing contractor to show up and get a roof on it, maybe starting tomorrow. We are starting to narrow down our ideas on the rest of the finishes, especially the flooring. Right now it's a bare concrete slab that was placed about 2 years ago - we've been working on it that long, no kidding... I am interested to learn what works and what doesn't as far as durable surface for automotive type "working surface" that still might have a nice visual appeal - like acid stain with a clear coat of some kind. Not gonna just paint it, we want something different but durable and low maintenance.
So, what do you suggest?
