Concrete slab work needed
Ok, I am a builder. Your building is 40x60. If you paid less than about $8.00 per foot " depending on the concrete price I your area " there is a reason you got it done so cheap. It should cost you around 19k for a proper slab. My builder cost for slabs is between 7.50 and up to 12.00 per foot depending on the area from my concrete guys. This is mostly dictated by concrete prices. Yours isn't done correctly. You should never go more than 15 feet between the beams. And 99% of the time the beams should be minimum of 24" deep, unless the soil test states otherwise. Too many people including builders do slabs that aren't engineered. Its cheaper for them. But it costs the homeowners later. Most of the time this leads to problems later. Yours has a high chance of big cracks down the road and most likely quite a bit of settling.
Your slab will likely be fine. Mine was for many years right on a river. Another member in here just had an engineered slab put in with a **** ton extra large beams added, heavier rebar, etc. and it only cost him $9 a foot. In my case, it made much more sense to build a non-engineered slab/shop. An engineered kit for wind storm with doors where I wanted would have doubled the cost of the kit. The slab would have been twice as much as well.
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That would be 21,600 for the slab. I wouldn't even be able to get the metal building this year if that was what it cost. I went with what I could afford. Mission accomplished.
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Ok, I am a builder. Your building is 40x60. If you paid less than about $8.00 per foot " depending on the concrete price I your area " there is a reason you got it done so cheap. It should cost you around 19k for a proper slab. My builder cost for slabs is between 7.50 and up to 12.00 per foot depending on the area from my concrete guys. This is mostly dictated by concrete prices. Yours isn't done correctly. You should never go more than 15 feet between the beams. And 99% of the time the beams should be minimum of 24" deep, unless the soil test states otherwise. Too many people including builders do slabs that aren't engineered. Its cheaper for them. But it costs the homeowners later. Most of the time this leads to problems later. Yours has a high chance of big cracks down the road and most likely quite a bit of settling.
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From: Central MN
Well with my wife's 100k in school debt and only making 40k per year it makes it very hard to go out and buy some land to put a building up on. It's going to be 3-4, maybe even 5 years before we look into getting a new house. (hopefully by then she'll be making enough money to actually help pay for some things)
The only thing I can say is at least I don't have kids to pay for lol
The only thing I can say is at least I don't have kids to pay for lol
