Building A Garage Floor Slab

Step by step pictures of me building a 24x24 garage.

Building a garage floor slab. Type of use how thick you pour your concrete floor can be determined by how the floor is going to be used. Use some boots to keep your feet clean while stepping in the concrete. If you re interested in building one yourself check it out. The standard concrete garage floor is six inches thick and with use of proper control joints should be thick enough to withstand normal use.

Unless ventilation is specifically required for some other reason the void beneath a garage floor which is suspended precast concrete may be unventilated if. Old habits die hard. Connecting slab and aprons tying rebar in the slab to sidewalls may not be necessary or even advisable but at least one post suggests that connecting the main floor slab to the aprons at door entrances is a good idea. As a detached garage i was able to do a slab on grade foundation rather than having to dig footings below the frost line as would be required for an attached garage.

The ground beneath is well drained and. There is unlikely to be a build up of soil gases. Building codes used to stipulate that the floor of an attached garage be four inches lower than the floor level of the house. Clip shows steps involving how to pour foot.

Pouring a slab atop of soft fill can lead to serious slab settlement settlement cracking. Use a rebar to check the thickness of the concrete slab and add more if necessarily. As we can testify from our first construction job raking fill dirt level inside of foundation walls in dam neck virginia in 1963 the builder often fails to compact the fill soil. The type 1 foundation shown at the left is usually suitable for a one story garage design that your building official can be certain will never be used for human habitation.

We brought more gravel and sand next to the garage using the dump truck. Today s residential building code does not include this requirement. We used a wheelbarrow to pour the concrete to the other side of the garage floor. Conditions leading to garage or building interior floor slab collapse.

It is an inexpensive approach to a combination floor footing system that can even be used in deep frost country if the soils drain well so as to prevent frost heave damage to any part of the garage foundation and. However i lacked the drive and expertise required for digging a 440 sqaure foot hole and pouring a good foundation. Pinning the apron to the slab is just doweling some 4 rebar into the garage slab at each door writes dave richeson.