CTyler
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Those steel beams get spendy pretty quick though. I found this out building my house. I looked at the beams they dropped of and could hardly beleive I spent over 3K+ for them.
Concrete columns
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scottbrrtt72
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I used two pieces of 4' re-bar in each column.
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The guy at the aggregate plant estimated them at 1000 lbs a piece. He estimated a 1/4 yard of concrete for each column. One yard of concrete is 4000lbs.
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...but smaller & shorter beams are lots cheaper... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Quite a few years ago,a friend bought a camp... or better said... a "money pit" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I think a bunch of guys got together with a keg of beer... well maybe a few kegs... then partied, drank up all the beer... then proceeded to build the camp... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
When you're building a backyard deck, or a pole barn... you can get by with smaller bearing surfaces... but when you're dealing with a house (a camp is a house)... then the equation changes drastically... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Quite a few years ago,a friend bought a camp... or better said... a "money pit" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I think a bunch of guys got together with a keg of beer... well maybe a few kegs... then partied, drank up all the beer... then proceeded to build the camp... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
When you're building a backyard deck, or a pole barn... you can get by with smaller bearing surfaces... but when you're dealing with a house (a camp is a house)... then the equation changes drastically... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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scottbrrtt72
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We are getting much more weight displacement with the 2'x2' square base than you would with a 12' round sonnet tube. tents to act as a base or footing.
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Those look great. I see you are using the bigfoots. Those cost around $20.00 a piece where I live.
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scottbrrtt72:
Just out of idle curiosity, if you have a problem with water/flooding and shifting/varying ground why would you want a solid (attached to the ground) structure in the first place?
Many years ago I was living along a river with flooding, heaving ground as the water table rose and fell, etc. Almost every rigidly attached house in the area had occasional structural problems (cracked slabs, settling walls, etc). I designed and built several small structures that "floated" unattached. One was a small utility building that I sold when I moved. It was easy to drag over to his lot and the purchaser added a sleeping loft (the ceiling was 12' high) and other "comforts" and used it for years as a cabin (until the marina was converted to a county park and the thing destroyed).
A rigid, integrated structure NOT attached to the ground would be much easier to manage. While it has to be built more solid in itself, you have no cost of foundations, posts, etc. I seem to recall someone said once that a house is just a sloppily built boat that can't be moved and is in permanent dry dock (or something like that).
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Just out of idle curiosity, if you have a problem with water/flooding and shifting/varying ground why would you want a solid (attached to the ground) structure in the first place?
Many years ago I was living along a river with flooding, heaving ground as the water table rose and fell, etc. Almost every rigidly attached house in the area had occasional structural problems (cracked slabs, settling walls, etc). I designed and built several small structures that "floated" unattached. One was a small utility building that I sold when I moved. It was easy to drag over to his lot and the purchaser added a sleeping loft (the ceiling was 12' high) and other "comforts" and used it for years as a cabin (until the marina was converted to a county park and the thing destroyed).
A rigid, integrated structure NOT attached to the ground would be much easier to manage. While it has to be built more solid in itself, you have no cost of foundations, posts, etc. I seem to recall someone said once that a house is just a sloppily built boat that can't be moved and is in permanent dry dock (or something like that).
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Hi All,
We were able to get all the exterior columns put in this summer. See photos. The problem we have now is getting the ones under the camp replaced. We have an approximate 2-foot crawl space under the camp. The floor joists run over three main runners (2x12’s). We replaced all of the three main runners with the concrete columns, however, we still have nine telephone poles under the camp which need to be replaced. I am looking for a way to replace the columns underneath the camp. Any Ideas?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
We were able to get all the exterior columns put in this summer. See photos. The problem we have now is getting the ones under the camp replaced. We have an approximate 2-foot crawl space under the camp. The floor joists run over three main runners (2x12’s). We replaced all of the three main runners with the concrete columns, however, we still have nine telephone poles under the camp which need to be replaced. I am looking for a way to replace the columns underneath the camp. Any Ideas?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
