Greetings to everyone. I’ve lurked on here for sometime, but never got around to registering. Yall have some beautiful shops, and there has been a ton of useful info on here. I’ve been in the process of planning/building a red iron building over the last 4 years. Dreaming for 30 
The rain has been a huge back up the last few months here in VA. I could say it has almost been as big of a hold up and pain as the county permitting process. We have finally manage to reach the point of having the stem wall prepped, fill/compacted , and ready for the slab pour. Since it was completed we’ve manage to have a couple more hits of rain. To evacuate any built up moisture/ additional rainfall we drilled a 4 inch core against the footing through the base of the stem wall at the rear corner. In the process of filling the foundation with structural fill we sloped it towards the drain, and used layers of aggregate/fabric to percolate better that way. Any saturated fill that was inside walls during this process was skimmed and either dried out or dumped outside walls for backfilling/sloping later. I have at least 8-10” of compacted aggregate covering the entire surface. There will also be a substantial swale with drainage pipe/stone dug along the low left side of foundation. As it sits now there is no breech over walls even in a heavy rain. After substantial rain night before last water is still percolating steadily out the core hole. We are leaning towards putting plastic down and draping it over the sides temporarily to keep any extra rain off until slab is poured. I’m debating as to how long I should wait before slab is poured if I need to at all. If water stops percolating out the drain, and we are able to get it covered should I be good to go? Or would it be better to let it have more drying time. People seem to be all over in regards to this. For what it’s worth there will be a minimum of 6” of slab. This foundation is completely overbuilt to say at the least but between codes, somewhat subpar geotechnical reports, location, and slope there wasn’t much of a choice. Luckily I have some contacts in concrete as I’m in the concrete demo/cutting business. I also plan to be here long term as the home has been in my family since childhood. Otherwise I’m not sure this would have been feasible cost/time wise.
The rain has been a huge back up the last few months here in VA. I could say it has almost been as big of a hold up and pain as the county permitting process. We have finally manage to reach the point of having the stem wall prepped, fill/compacted , and ready for the slab pour. Since it was completed we’ve manage to have a couple more hits of rain. To evacuate any built up moisture/ additional rainfall we drilled a 4 inch core against the footing through the base of the stem wall at the rear corner. In the process of filling the foundation with structural fill we sloped it towards the drain, and used layers of aggregate/fabric to percolate better that way. Any saturated fill that was inside walls during this process was skimmed and either dried out or dumped outside walls for backfilling/sloping later. I have at least 8-10” of compacted aggregate covering the entire surface. There will also be a substantial swale with drainage pipe/stone dug along the low left side of foundation. As it sits now there is no breech over walls even in a heavy rain. After substantial rain night before last water is still percolating steadily out the core hole. We are leaning towards putting plastic down and draping it over the sides temporarily to keep any extra rain off until slab is poured. I’m debating as to how long I should wait before slab is poured if I need to at all. If water stops percolating out the drain, and we are able to get it covered should I be good to go? Or would it be better to let it have more drying time. People seem to be all over in regards to this. For what it’s worth there will be a minimum of 6” of slab. This foundation is completely overbuilt to say at the least but between codes, somewhat subpar geotechnical reports, location, and slope there wasn’t much of a choice. Luckily I have some contacts in concrete as I’m in the concrete demo/cutting business. I also plan to be here long term as the home has been in my family since childhood. Otherwise I’m not sure this would have been feasible cost/time wise.
nuke plant. I’ve been been referring to it as the foundation for a 6 story parking deck or fallout shelter. I appreciate the feedback y’all. (My old tools) I love the steel mezzanine in yours. I plan to do something similar down the road. The lake view is awesome too! I love the creek behind mine. Completely overbuilt, but I really had no choice to make it happen. In all honesty the 4+ years I’ve put into it have been stressful, not to mention a strain with old lady (as far as my time). 
in order to keep cost under control and make it work it was necessary. Now that I’m finally rounding the corner it’s a relief. As I said it’s been a dream my entire life. I’m a huge car/truck guy and it will be a sanctuary/man cave as much as it will be used for work/storage. I had every intention of doing the erection on my own as well but I’m gonna throw the towel in here. I found some guys that do excellent work. They specialize in steel building erection also had a fair price. They were even willing to unload the building for me at their farm. They will bring in pieces as they erect it so it’s not laying around here. With the 4 to 12 pitch and steep access on sides it won’t be the easiest job out there. Ithaca steel is who I went thru for the building, and I will say so far they have been great. Steve my salesman has worked with me for years on this before I jumped.