[AT] another new shop

Almost-Running Deere deereman1000 at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 10 06:28:53 PDT 2004


Cecil, I had a shop built about the same time as yours I think 48 x 28.  The 
floor is 5 inch thick with rebar on 16 inch centers.  The concrete 
contractor sawed relief cuts in the monolithic pour 2 across the 28 foot 
stretch and one down the middle.  The floor only has small crack radiating 
out fron the refief cuts.  This has worked very well ant he bulk of the 
floor has suffered no major cracks.  The contractor was a company named 
Kistler out of a small town near Allentown.  They do work all over up into 
the Poconos, eastern PA , NJ, southern NY and northern MD

Dana
SE PA


>From: Cecil E Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: [AT] another new shop
>Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:10:16 -0400
>
>	It looks like I may get a chance to design another new shop
>and put it up in the coming year. I have a list of things I am going
>to change from the way I built the shop I have now. One thing I am
>going to add is an auxiliary hot water heating system that will heat
>the house and the new shop from one location. There will be an oil
>burning furnace that will handle both locations also and it will shut
>down if the wood furnace is going.
>
>	Which brings me to the question.  Does anyone on the List have
>an outdoor furnace that is used this way?  The ones I am considering
>are the outdoor furnaces with a large firebox that stand out away from
>the buildings a ways and look like a little building. If you have one,
>what do you think of it and would you put in another one if the situation
>came up again?
>
>	Another question I have is concerning the concrete floor. On the
>new shop I have now, I specified 6" of concrete with steel laid on the
>whole thing and centered inside the slab. The pour was 36' X 48' and the
>thickness and the steel did nothing to stop cracking. I have a diagonal
>crack that did not spread but goes literally across the building from one
>front corner to an opposite rear corner. Before the floor was poured and
>while the building was under construction, I hauled and spread about 8"
>of 3/4" crushed stone over the entire floor and it was well compacted by
>the time the concrete was poured. I thought I had everything covered with
>the steel and the underlayment of stone but apparently not. I made sure
>when the concrete was poured that I was there and that the steel stayed
>in place so I know that was done. Maybe cracks are the way things go but
>I would just as soon not have any if I do it again.
>
>	Any comments will be appreciated.
>
>Cecil
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>what you said.
>
>Cecil E Monson
>Lucille Hand-Monson
>Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
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