How is the virus affecting you?
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Not sure about tigers...but with all the abattoirs closing and all the feral cats etc...if you know what I mean...
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We didn't test our cat.... we cut her open, cut open her small intestine, removed a 1" fabric ball from a toy, sewed her all back up, handed the vet my tax return, stimulus check, first born child and 3 rolls of toilet paper.
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We are in year 24 or our 5 year house... so out of room. Garage is 24' wide by 20' deep x 10' walls. We are adding a 24' x 24' x 8' high addition strictly for a storage space. This will free up a storage shed I've been renting since the late 90's, and our basement. Garage package is about $5200. Concrete estimates were $6200!
So going to do the concrete myself for under $3000. However, I'm not physically able to do a 24 x 24 pad by myself. I can do 24 x 8. So I'll do it in three - 8' sections. It will have a 12" x 12" rim all the way around. Building inspector originally said it had to have footings and wall below the frost line... 48". For a garage slab? He said it was because it was over 720 square feet. I said it's 576. He said it won't be if it touches the existing garage, you have to add them together. But the original garage doesn't have footings. Doesn't matter. It'll be 1080 when done, so footings are required on the addition. I said my neighbor added a pole barn to the front of his garage and didn't need footings. Inspector said it has posts 48" deep every 8'. I asked if I could put 12" tubes down 48" every 8'? It would be no different, would it? He said that would be fine.
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So, 12 tubes around the perimeter VS 96' of 4' wall.... had I not asked, he'd have not told me.
I'm using 3/8" rebar every 24" and drilling into the side of the existing slab a foot and epoxying the rebar into that as well, so if it does move, it'll take the existing garage with it and stay level.
I spent 2 hours the other night and dug out the pad area. 6" deep at the garage end, and the land slopes up, so it was 18" deep on the side opposite the existing garage. Hauled the spoils about 50 yards to the woods. Having a little nimble machine VS a shovel and wheelbarrow is fantastic.
Set the first form box last night. Got it all level with a water level. Slopes down about an inch for drainage should something happen. Today hauled in 3 loads of #11 crushed limestone and spread that in the box to bring it up to 4" deep. Will compact next. Did that between tending to cat recovering from surgery (ate a toy, got stuck in intestines), hitting stores looking for baby food for cat, hitting greenhouse and buying 6 flats of flowers, hitting store for mother in law who is under the weather...
I'm taking pictures of the garage for a documentary post later. :laughing:
Anyhow, that's how the virus is affecting me.
Mossy, when I did my workshop and machine shop, I did in floor PEX heat. Best thing I ever did. Me and a friend did the slab, set the PEX on standoff's on the mats. Hard to beat a warm floor in the winter. Floor is 8" thick, helluva heat retainer.
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I thought about it, but in the end, this is just for storage. I love a heated floor. Back in the 80's I worked at the local airport. We had a heated floor in one of the hangars. So nice! :thumbsup:
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I usually start the floor heat in the fall, before the ground gets cold and once the slab is up to temp (75 degrees) it don't take much to keep it there. The apron in front of the overhead door gets warm too. All the outside cats congregate there in the winter. If I ever built another house, it would have in floor heat as well. Cannot beat a warm floor to work on. Easy install too.
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My Daughter's was supposed to board a plane to New York City on Saturday to work as a traveling nurse at a large hospital there, but they decided they didn't need her in the big apple. So no contract was signed and she spent the day trying to find other work in other States including California. She found a contract in a hospital in a suburb of Pittsburgh Pa. So looks like she will be going there next week. The hospital she was working at here in Missouri of course does not have enough census count to keep her on and let all of the traveling nursing staff go. The reason they don't have very many patients is because of the orders to put off all but emergency surgeries, and of course the "stay at home orders" has cut down greatly on auto accidents as well. But at least she has found work for a couple of months at least in Pa. All of the hospitals in Missouri are hurting very badly because of the orders. Perhaps when her contract is up in Pa. she will hopefully be able to come back to Missouri and the hospitals will be open for business by then.
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If I put in a heated floor in the shop before a heated floor in the master bath, I might as well move out/in.
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