My New Shop!! Yiippeee!

ramcharger said
Dang Marland, what a shop! I'm truly happy for you and certainly admire your construction skills. Your Father certainly taught you well and although he has passed, a part of him still lives on through you.

Just curious, would the slope of the concrete pad affect mounting of the lift? Would the lift end up tilted?

homecloned said
Nice job going on there! Sounds like your father was a special guy mullinax95.

Yes dad was a good man. He would go out of his way to help others. He lived close to my friends house. My friend had a problem with is copper plumbing under his house where over the years the well water had ate up the copper making pin holes in which it was leaking. My dad went over there and he and my friend repaired the copper. He didn't charge my friend a dime for the work. My friend always remembers that about dad and the fishing trips that my dad took him on in which dad supplied the boat, rods, gas, etc..

I don't know it the concrete pad would affect the four post lift (the one I like) as opposed to the two post lift. The two post lift needs to be pretty level I assume because it doesn't have platforms for the car tires to sit on. I guess I better check with the lift companies before I pour the slab. I'm planning on have 1/8" fall for every 3' so that a total of 5" fall in my 30' shop span. I don't think that would affect it that much but it might. It's code that it have fall so when I mentioned pouring it level earlier in this thread... that thought got shot out the door.

64X2 said
Very awesome to see ya building your own.........

I will have to have help with the trusses and setting the LVLs over the garage door. I will have a crane out here to help set both but need my friend on the other end nailing while I nail the other side. The trusses are ordered and shouldn't be long for them to be here. The truss company said that they didn't have anything to do so they could started on mine it a timely manner.

stansblue72 said
I poured my floor level for the first 10' where my work bench is then sloped it 1" from there to the door. That's going to be a nice shop.

That's a great idea but I better check with the building inspector ... he might not like that to much. If he says that will be OK then I might do it that way.