Post Anchors - Need Help

   / Post Anchors - Need Help
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#11  
You could use treated 2x6 as a "sill plate" and fasten your posts to it (like traditional frame construction) then bolt the 2x6 to the pad. Gives you a bottom nailer for the sheathing or siding too:eek:

Now that's an idea. If I don't run a sill plate all the way down the side I could run it a foot on either side of the 6x6 post. Lag screw the bottom sill plate to the bottom of the post, put some T brackets on each side, then fasten the 2x6 down with anchors. Got it. Sounds like a plan.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #13  
how about drilling normal pole building holes on the outside of the slab and then build your pole barn. You could always pour a finish 12'' strip around the edge. This would make for a more sturdy building. Thoughts All????
Hold on a minute jack.
Ya stole my idea!
That's what i was gonna suggest:
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #14  
Rent one of those cement cutting chainsaws with diamond teeth and cut the hole you need.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help
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#15  
How did you come to have that situation .
Why was the pad poured in the first place back then?


Just an RV pad. Did not have a tractor then or want to put a roof over the RV. Now I need a shop and a tractor house.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #16  
If I had a slab to build on I would build a stick built wall. I think the cost would be close to the same and maybe cheeper if you finsh the interior.....Larry
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #17  
Was this a monolithic pour that have support at the edges? The results wouldnt be too good if its just a slab with no support and the posts resting on a just a pad.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #18  
Just an RV pad. Did not have a tractor then or want to put a roof over the RV. Now I need a shop and a tractor house.
Boring holes to set the post in allows you to make the building any size you want it which could be a big advantage over going with the limited 16 x 40 pad.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #19  
The builder I used to haul materials for used an "L" shaped galvanized bracket to secure posts when the posts were not dug into the ground. On most of the job sights I observed, the anchor bolts were placed in specific locations, then a treated mud sill was laid down then the post was set with brackets on either side. The skirt board was then nailed to both the sill plate and the posts.

That was a few years ago and I have no idea what those brackets cost. I would spend some time searching on the net first.

As discussed here I believe and on other forums, ACQ treated wood is corrosive to fasteners. If you go with drilling and using expansion anchors, find something in stainless if you can (more bucks).

Perhaps you could either find some heavy angle or weld up some plate steel yourself or have a shop do it. Except for the reaction with the ACQ, as long as you eliminate dampness, fairly thick brackets with a good paint job should last fairly long.

There is a material available similar to ice dam for building decks with ACQ. Even with stainless or galvanized hardware, at least one builder that I read about puts a piece of that membrane between all of his fasteners and the wood, the idea to negate deterioration. Standard stick construction on the slab would maybe be more cost effective as someone suggested.

Setting the posts outside of the existing slab would cost you in wasted materials if the slab is laid out based on center to center dimensions. A lot of figuring would be required when ordering too. I agree that going larger may be the key to using the existing pad. That way, you can stay with center to center measurements.
 
   / Post Anchors - Need Help #20  
Was this a monolithic pour that have support at the edges? The results wouldnt be too good if its just a slab with no support and the posts resting on a just a pad.

All the more reason to use a sill and stick-built walls, to spread the load...
 

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