Please help

[AjCjR3579]

Can anyone think outside the box

I have thought of lots of Ideas from sprinkling with a coat of portland cement and using it to level areas to using two sheets of plywood one sheet screwed to the next in opposite patterns. The Garage if you can call it that is a 24*13*10 shelter logic garage built on top of railroad ties and then filled with 18 tones of RAP compacted. The floor is very solid but a 2 post lift could never be installed on it like I want. With the railroad ties I have 11ft of headroom clearance. I cant put a concrete slap on top due to not wanting to get a permit and the township involved. so what are some other affordable options or ideas? I have to make the floor even and a nice surface to work on when wrenching on cars and my Truck 8600 lbs. When I tamped it it didn't come out even and when I say uneven it means a quarter inch dip here and there. I took some photos to show everyone what I am dealing with. I used a vibratory tamper plate to compact it. The surface feels hard as hell and I already lay a sheet of plywood down before I do any jacking on vehicles. if i didn't it would sink into the millings. I know just pouring a pad would be Ideal from here on but its not my property.

 

[Cave Creek Ray]

Simple.

You can't get "there" from "here."

Do it right or do it twice.

Sorry...

 

[AjCjR3579]

There's always a way. I just want to see if anyone else has any ideas.I am about to level with concrete and maybe use tongue and groove OSB with a plywood topping or vice vesa

 

[EOC_Jason]

If you don't want it to be permanent, then get some more fill for the low spots and pack it down good. Then maybe two layers of pressure treated plywood in alternating directions screwed together?

 

[rburke65]

I would think you could use "screenings" .....fine sand or stone....like they use under retaining walls......agricultural slag? Take a 10' screed....2x4" and start to fine grade the surface. Plastic to keep the moister down and then Pressure treated sleepers, and then your plywood. In my opinion.

 

[Cave Creek Ray]

Screw the township. Have "concrete party" and invite a couple friends. A truck could back the chute in your "building" and unload three yards in 10 minutes or less. Put forms outside the "door" for excess and screed toward the door, using a movable form to use up whatever you have leftover as a "drive."

Most towns do not require permits for driveways. You have no permanent building there. All you are doing is pouring a parking pad. For the cost of the plywood, you could just about do concrete. Do you realize what moisture creeping up through the wood is going to do to all your tools? And have you considered the security offered by see-thru VisQueen for all the stuff in your "garage?"

Think a few steps ahead before going with a wooden floor...