(new garage & pouring floor) need concrete specs for 2 post lift?
04-21-2009, 10:20 PM
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Garage Here is some pics of my garage I finished middle of last year. I found a Rotary lift, 9000 lb for $2200.00 installed. It is 23x40. I added it on the side of the house and attached it to the old garage. So it gives me about 6 car spaces, seven if one is on the lift. We went 8 inch down on 4 ft pads and reinforced with rebar.
Good luck with your garage. If you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
Good luck with your garage. If you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
04-22-2009, 07:56 AM
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Here is some pics of my garage I finished middle of last year. I found a Rotary lift, 9000 lb for $2200.00 installed. It is 23x40. I added it on the side of the house and attached it to the old garage. So it gives me about 6 car spaces, seven if one is on the lift. We went 8 inch down on 4 ft pads and reinforced with rebar.
Good luck with your garage. If you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
Good luck with your garage. If you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
04-22-2009, 11:46 AM
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On your slab, make sure you can a mixer truck to the foundation. If not you will have to have it "pumped" by a concrete pump. If this is the case, you need to make sure that you tell the concrete plant that you are pumping the concrete and that you will need a 2.5-3in. line pump mix. Depends on the size of the concrete hose the pumper will be using. Most likely 2.5in. It's a little easier to move around.
04-22-2009, 12:11 PM
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On your slab, make sure you can a mixer truck to the foundation. If not you will have to have it "pumped" by a concrete pump. If this is the case, you need to make sure that you tell the concrete plant that you are pumping the concrete and that you will need a 2.5-3in. line pump mix. Depends on the size of the concrete hose the pumper will be using. Most likely 2.5in. It's a little easier to move around.
04-22-2009, 03:45 PM
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If the truck can't reach the site, you will have to pump the cement to the site from an offsite location that is accessable.
04-25-2009, 01:52 PM
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You could also locate someone with a conveyor truck, instead of a pump. A lot of the time if you pump it you have to have it pretty thin (slump >6") and some people will just add more water and increase the w/c ratio which in turn ruins the compressive strength, instead of adding a superplastcizer. With a conveyor truck you can easily go 4"-6" slump. The other thing you want to look into is the amount of air entrained in the mixture as this greatly increases durability when subjected to freeze and thaw cycles. If you have any questions shoot me a PM.
