Originally Posted by
Kurt Cady
Great looking shop.
You probably won't like this...but now is the time to remove or relocate those trees. Trees can and will cause crazy amounts damage. Rule of thumb is to keep the building outside of the full grown trees' drip line (leaf canopy). The one on the left is already violating that rule.
I am am a bit confused about how you got around not digging below the frost line. Can you elaborate?
Sorry it has taken me so long to answer your question Kurt. The engineer decided that while 24" is not the actual frost line, it is deep enough, and big enough, being 24" deep x 15" thick (or actually thicker) and if it was lifted, the entire pad would be lifted at the same time. As I mentioned earlier, I would have perferred doing concrete walls / footings with a center slab. The cost was over double though.
I would have liked to remove the trees, but they provide too much shade and I just couldn't pull them out. I will be cutting them back some, but will leave them for now.
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.... It seems to me that Montana is a great splash of grandeur....the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans. Montana has a spell on me. It is grandeur and warmth. Of all the states it is my favorite and my love.
John Steinbeck