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How to design floor in shop
I will be building a garage/shop for the NH this summer.I do not want a concrete floor.My plan is to build the deck useing 4x6 posts on 8'centers,then frame the floor joist on top of 2x12s that are on each side of the posts.My delima is,what size and span on the joist,and do I deck it with 1"t&g,or 3/4" treated plywood.I will lay a double layer of plastic over the sand prior to framing to control ground moisture.Part of the object is toget the deck well above ground level,since we normally will acumulate 2 or 3 feet of snow.I want to park the TC35DA w/loader on it as well as a jeep wrangler. Help?
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There wont be any significant oil issues,but if there are,thats what the pressure washer is for.
Where this is, it would be close to impossible to get a mixer truck in, stone is not a consideration, and my other shop already has a wood floor, for both the above reasons.The existing shop is only used for the sleds [another good reason for wood], and the quads.Its a bunch warmer when I have to lay on it,and the dreded "damp concrete under the arthritic body syndrome" is non existant.The floor has to be at least 18" above grade because I dont want to be shoveling the doors out all the time in winter, nor do I want the snow drifted up against them and then getting crusty before I get there to remove it.This is not at home,It is at the place in northern mi.
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the 2x12 will run front to back,attached to the posts that are set on 8' centers.The floor joice will then run at 90* to the 2x12,on top of them, on 16" centers.The span of the floor joice will thus be 8'.The question is, what size floor joice.If I double deck it,would the sheets be staggered, with the span directions the same,or srt the sheets at 90* and stagger the joints?
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Wow!, This is getting more complicated by the minute.I think I'll go snoop around some barns this w/e, a lot of them have floors with basements under that they park equipment on.Cant hurt to look at what works !
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the lumber would be ground contact rated,which Ive always been told is "southern yellow pine".obviously,any existing barn floors I look at wont be built with that,probably a species of oak,which is a lot different strengthwise.
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