Dave Zellers
02-24-2015, 10:35 PM
Anyone have any experience with these?
LOML wants a garage so she isn't scraping ice off her car every morning given this new ice age we seem to be in.
Our lot is a rather steep slope that we terraced when we built the house. So flat spots are precious.
My shop is our entire basement on the lower level with an 8' slider that I can back right up to.
As I've expanded over the years, the walls are closing in on me. I NEED MORE ROOM!
So, we finally get to the point. Two birds, one stone.
There seems to be just enough room to put a garage on the upper level and if I excavated the slope and poured an 8-9 foot high foundation, and used pre-stressed concrete panels for the floor, I would get shop overflow space underneath! WIN, WIN!
This would be a detached garage but only 10' off the corner of the house so also only 10' away from my shop slider. I could move my plywood and rough lumber storage out there and make room for a mistress, AKA, a SuperMax drum sander along with other babes I lust after. But I digress.
For the pre-stressed concrete panels, I'm seeing $10-15 per sq ft installed online. But poured foundation costs would go up to allow for a stepped wall, etc. I've seen this done but I wasn't part of the job so I never learned anything.
Anyway, any insight is appreciated. Oh yeah- I'm only looking to span 20 feet. Small potatoes.
LOML wants a garage so she isn't scraping ice off her car every morning given this new ice age we seem to be in.
Our lot is a rather steep slope that we terraced when we built the house. So flat spots are precious.
My shop is our entire basement on the lower level with an 8' slider that I can back right up to.
As I've expanded over the years, the walls are closing in on me. I NEED MORE ROOM!
So, we finally get to the point. Two birds, one stone.
There seems to be just enough room to put a garage on the upper level and if I excavated the slope and poured an 8-9 foot high foundation, and used pre-stressed concrete panels for the floor, I would get shop overflow space underneath! WIN, WIN!
This would be a detached garage but only 10' off the corner of the house so also only 10' away from my shop slider. I could move my plywood and rough lumber storage out there and make room for a mistress, AKA, a SuperMax drum sander along with other babes I lust after. But I digress.
For the pre-stressed concrete panels, I'm seeing $10-15 per sq ft installed online. But poured foundation costs would go up to allow for a stepped wall, etc. I've seen this done but I wasn't part of the job so I never learned anything.
Anyway, any insight is appreciated. Oh yeah- I'm only looking to span 20 feet. Small potatoes.