Re: Anyone want a 400F

Posted by shinyribs on May 28, 2017; 3:30pm
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Anyone-want-a-400F-tp4062308p4062324.html

Nothing fancy.

I'm building a 24 x 24 with just 8' walls. I don't need high ceilings and don't want them. The ground is bad in this spot so traditional footer + foundation wall would have been very expensive. There's 5' of slope from the front wall to the back wall. I'm building piers for footings. Four rows of four, 2'x2' concrete footings with stacked block. Solid red clay here and our frost line is 24". Digging it all by hand and having soooo much fun.

The building will have one 9'x7' garage door, one person door and a wood floor. Everyone says I'm crazy, but I guarantee that it will hold a passenger vehicle just fine. I've seen lofts in barns packed with rolls of hay that I know weigh more than a car, and they are 100 years old and built with less wood/bracing than these piers will give. With the pier spacing as it is there will be no lumber spanning over 6'. 2x10 yellow pine joists on 1' centers.  If everything goes according to my math I should be all done for under $6k. It's not the first thing I've built that people said wouldn't work! :)

So, are you coming to VA or what??