I recently built a new pole building.I'm using a gravel floor,with a 20 ft overhead door and a 20 ft slider (two 10 ft doors).I've priced a cement pad for under both doors 2ft wide 3 ft deep by 20ft and the cheapist estimate was 2100 bucks.Is there something else that will work?I wonder if something like pre cast cement would work,just dig down and install it.
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Janicholson
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New crossing ties would work for many years. Set them in corse gravel on the sides, and undisturbed earth under them. Jim
2 ft wide and 3 ft deep is a lot of concrete.
Consider a crawl space foundation--8 inch by 16 inch footing below frost line--8 x 16 concrete block up to a 12 inch wide by 8 inch deep slab at grade. You can fill the concrete block cells with concrete if you want it more solid. Back fill with round gravel
Consider a crawl space foundation--8 inch by 16 inch footing below frost line--8 x 16 concrete block up to a 12 inch wide by 8 inch deep slab at grade. You can fill the concrete block cells with concrete if you want it more solid. Back fill with round gravel
Lots of people just pour a slab in the building and continue it out a ways.Seems like a sure fire way of cracked up concrete under your doors not to mention it can heave up and make them not work right. I don't like this. I'm also in Ohio.
I pour a footer like that right under my overhead doors. Not that wide though ? Fairly easy to form up with flake board,2x4's,and some all thread rods to hold the forms all together to prevent blow out. I like the flake board better then plywood as it is porous and the concrete will force out air pockets.
I then pour my floor inside right up against the footer. Would also work great for an inside gravel floor to.
I pour a footer like that right under my overhead doors. Not that wide though ? Fairly easy to form up with flake board,2x4's,and some all thread rods to hold the forms all together to prevent blow out. I like the flake board better then plywood as it is porous and the concrete will force out air pockets.
I then pour my floor inside right up against the footer. Would also work great for an inside gravel floor to.
Hay hay hay
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You need about a yard of concrete to pour a slab 6 inches thick. 20ft x 3 ft. in size.
Concrete will be under $100 plus a lot more just to deliver it.
Steel another $100
Framing wood $50
I am no concrete man but i framed and poured sidewalks on the farm that are not too perfectly finished but they are square and they sure beat walking in the mud.
I poured a 1 foot wide strip of concrete in every barn doorway to hold the gravel floor in place. Still there 5 years later. Formed a hole at the center of each doorway for a door lock rod to fasten the door. Piece of PVC pipe in the concrete.
Smooth it off with a 2x4 and brush finish it.
Concrete will be under $100 plus a lot more just to deliver it.
Steel another $100
Framing wood $50
I am no concrete man but i framed and poured sidewalks on the farm that are not too perfectly finished but they are square and they sure beat walking in the mud.
I poured a 1 foot wide strip of concrete in every barn doorway to hold the gravel floor in place. Still there 5 years later. Formed a hole at the center of each doorway for a door lock rod to fasten the door. Piece of PVC pipe in the concrete.
Smooth it off with a 2x4 and brush finish it.
Ken Macfarlane
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We poured one last year 3" blue xps styrofoam over a bit of crushed rock with drain tile in it. 6" welded wire mesh and 5.5" of concrete (2x6 forms). It was an apron too, 32 ft wide, 10 ft long. Cost was 600$ or so for the cement but it didn't all go into the form, we were pouring other stuff too. I cut 4 saw cuts and it hasn't cracked or heaved. I kept it clear all last winter, we're below freezing from Nov to mid March.
Geo-TH,In
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Ray, Where do you live? I live in W. centeral Indiana. Our frost line, according the the building inspector ,is 24 inches for the footer on a house. However, the floor on my pole barn is only 6 inches. I have a 10 ft slab in front of barn. I have angled the dirt around the barn so all the rain runs away. We don't get extremely cold here. Nothing has moved and no cracks in floor or outside either. I don't think the total cost for my concrete floor was $2100.
George
George
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