Moving a garage

[Reit38]

I have a 14x22 garage I need to move in order to build larger shed. The garage is sitting on a slab and it is ramset every 16in cavity. What is the easiest way to remove the ramsets and any pointers to moving it. I plan on on using a 16ft trailer [all I have access to] I need to move it about 20ft and spin in 90*

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[59 wagon man]

if your talking the prebuilt shed/garage you can use a few pieces of 3" pvc pipe and a few friends. moved my 10 x 20 with a little tractor across my yard spun it 180 degrees and set it back down

 

[Zeke]

Power driven nails for concrete and masonry are hardened and don't cut very well unless you use a cut-off wheel. Kinda hard to get in there but if you can cut off the heads (or grind them off) and remove the washers, the bottom plate will lift free with I suspect some resistance but not enough to stop the job.

The rest I don't know about.

 

[RWorth]

Use a hole saw around the nails, and lift it off.

 

[kd3pc]

Use a hole saw around the nails, and lift it off.

RW beat me to it, this works very well

 

[RWorth]

Quickest middle finger in the east

 

[Zeke]

Use a hole saw around the nails, and lift it off.

RW beat me to it, this works very well

That may be a better idea. Do you sue the pilot bit? If so, how big a saw so that the nail doesn't bind in there and break you arm. Or get around the washer?

Kinda butchers the original bottom plate I would think. I guess you could run a row of blocks at the new location. You sure aren't going to use the bottom plate to roll on pipes.

Naw, I'll stick with my approach. You sure you've actually done it this way?

 

[matt_i]

a holesaw without the pilot bit isn't good because it will walk all over and fight you to become piloted. Its also going to jack up the piilot bit if its sent down next to the ramset and forced to eat concrete.

Personally I'd cut off the heads if they aren't buried in the wood. Angle grinder and 4 to 4-1/2" thin cutoff disk. A dremel could be used if you had the time

 

[RWorth]

You only need the pilot bit to start the hole, after you are in a half inch you can remove the pilot bit.

 

[fastjohnny]

Hauled a 14 x 20 back in the day, with 16' trailer, used about 20 16' 2x4's on edge to support the shed. Cribbed up the corners, using a floor jack in the garage door entryway, then backed the trailer in and lowered it down.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Bolt in some heavy cross timbers, jack it up, and back a truck inside:

When I built my garage, I had a company haul the old one away. I basically gave it to them so they could resell it, but it was still in good condition, and it cheaper and easier than tearing it down.

 

[Reit38]

It's a stick built garage. No washers on nails. Heads are just about flush with the sill plate. I was thinking of grinding the heads off but wasn't sure how easy it would lift off.

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[Boilerhouse]

I have a 10 x 16 shed which I plan to move about 10 feet. After watching several You Tube videos using PVC (or equivalent) rollers, it seems like the easiest way to move and turn it.

 

[fastjohnny]

You guys know you can use hole saws without the pilot bit. Just run the hole saw through a scrap chunk of plywood, then remove pilot bit, screw plywood template over next place to drill hole...

 

[Zeke]

Well, he doesn't have washers on the ramset nails. (WTF?) This will be easy either way, but easier to grind if the heads of the nails were resting on top of washers.

But for the sake of the discussion, whether using the pilot bit or a guide, getting a hole around any decent washer is going to leave a big *** hole in the plate.

In this one instance with no washers I might be persuaded to use a bit just big enough to get around the nail. The comment about hitting the concrete below is very valid. Might want to put a stop on the hole saw. Oh, yeah, and the hole saw will load up and have to be withdrawn a few times for each nail.

Given this and that, I still see the grinding as the best way.

 

[Reit38]

Appears to have a plastic washer is all

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[the GOAT]

Have you tried just pulling the nails with a cats paw?

 

[Zeke]

Have you tried just pulling the nails with a cats paw?

Have you tried pulling a power-driven nail out of concrete? A lot comes with the bargain. However, that might be something to try as the bottom plate is holding down what would normally be a big spall lifting with the nail.

 

[Dustball]

Core the sill plates around each nail, lift the garage, install new sill plates below the existing sill plates.

 

[robertlynk]

Hole around the nail. When you reset you have your holes for wedge anchors pre drilled

 

[Reit38]

How far apart should I run my cross braces

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[NWOhioChevyGuy]

I moved one roughly that size last year, see my post here.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296545

Only thing I would do differently is place bracing to the front and back wall. I failed to see the inertia when stopping and starting the tractor. It worked but a few more braces would have made for less "pucker factor".

 

[Reit38]

Bump

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[Jazz1]

Can you get Sawzal blade between concrete and plate on the outside to cut bolts. I have seen that done for the same reason.