Only in Texas, Don and Harv doing

[wroughtn_harv]

Some builders of metal buildings lay the siding on top of the slab. I know of one, a friend of mine, in Southern Oklahoma that lays down two 1 1/2 inch square tubes side by side for a ledge. He pulls the outside one for the ledge for the siding to sit on and he uses the inside one to attach the siding.

The reason I suggested Don pour the concrete wet and tap it along the forms is to settle the concrete under the ledge. It won't have a trowel finish but the only ones inspecting will be the bugs and varmints looking for a way in. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BB_TX]

When they poured my 30'x40' slab, they did just as you are doing. They attached the 2"x2" before they poured. Although I watched the pour, I don't remember what they did to make sure they got the air gaps out. But it turned out very good. They did have one place about 5' long where they did not have the 2"x2" attached good. It slipped up a little and was not noticed until they took the forms off. I just took a circular saw with a masonary blade and squared it off pretty easily.

 

[BB_TX]

When they poured my 30'x40' slab, they did just as you are doing. They attached the 2"x2" before they poured. Although I watched the pour, I don't remember what they did to make sure they got the air gaps out. But it turned out very good. They did have one place about 5' long where they did not have the 2"x2" attached good. It slipped up a little and was not noticed until they took the forms off. I just took a circular saw with a masonary blade and squared it off pretty easily.

 

[EddieWalker]

Hi Don,

I was thinking abuot your lip on the slab today and wondering why put it in at all?

If you form the pad to theend of the poles, then the siding will fit on the side of the slab and not rest on a lip, since there wont be one. The space in the metal siding is easly filled with the foam that you use on the eves.

Less concrete and an easier wat to ste your forms. Just butt them up to the poles!!!!

Just a thought,
Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Hi Don,

I was thinking abuot your lip on the slab today and wondering why put it in at all?

If you form the pad to theend of the poles, then the siding will fit on the side of the slab and not rest on a lip, since there wont be one. The space in the metal siding is easly filled with the foam that you use on the eves.

Less concrete and an easier wat to ste your forms. Just butt them up to the poles!!!!

Just a thought,
Eddie

 

[txdon]

Eddie, You are making me think again. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

However this was an easy question. In the tractor shed I have the foam, where and wall and metal meet, the foam has been eaten by bugs (I think wasp). The way I figure the less foam used will be less I have to replace later. See attachment.

 

[txdon]

Eddie, You are making me think again. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

However this was an easy question. In the tractor shed I have the foam, where and wall and metal meet, the foam has been eaten by bugs (I think wasp). The way I figure the less foam used will be less I have to replace later. See attachment.

 

[EddieWalker]

Hi Don,

Some of that foam is pure crap. It's not the same from place to place, though I gues bugs or even birds can destroy it anyways.

To get a really good seal after everything is screwed down tight, I like to give each howl a shot of expanding foam.

The foam thats in there holds the expanding foam from going too deep, but the expanding stuff really seals it off good.

When Huricane Rita hit, the rain was comeing in sideways and from the North East, forcing it into my foam where the second story meats my flashing. I had a minor leak there from it.

I filled the holes with expanding foam, let it dry hard and trimmed with a hacksaw blade. Painted to match and now it's totaly water, wind and bug proof.

Not sure if it matters in your instalations, just sharing.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Hi Don,

Some of that foam is pure crap. It's not the same from place to place, though I gues bugs or even birds can destroy it anyways.

To get a really good seal after everything is screwed down tight, I like to give each howl a shot of expanding foam.

The foam thats in there holds the expanding foam from going too deep, but the expanding stuff really seals it off good.

When Huricane Rita hit, the rain was comeing in sideways and from the North East, forcing it into my foam where the second story meats my flashing. I had a minor leak there from it.

I filled the holes with expanding foam, let it dry hard and trimmed with a hacksaw blade. Painted to match and now it's totaly water, wind and bug proof.

Not sure if it matters in your instalations, just sharing.

Eddie

 

[txdon]

A cool 92 degrees in Texas and a nice day to pour our first beam. This is the most concrete that I have attempted to pour at one time ever, using 80 pound bags. The pour took one and a half hours, 19 bags and five mixers full of concrete. The beam is 8" at top and 10" at bottom and 10" thick.
This is our setup.
(Oh, when I say "our" or "we" it means wife and I. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif)