New garage being built......

[Charlie McCready]

It's almost done, gutters will be installed Friday, concrete and doors next week. It's 40 X 60 X 10......should have room in there for a Valk.

[Jess from VA]

What a beauty.   

I have given serious thought to making one of those my retirement home, just that size.

Regular homes own you, I want the most maintenance free single story available.

[..]

Why is the concrete floor done after the building is up?

[PAVALKER]

Why is the concrete floor done after the building is up?

That is a metal building it appears.... and I wondered the same thing. 

[hairyteeth]

That's the way mine was poured... worst part was digging the rat wall all the way around by hand.
Might I suggest some under floor conduit stubbed up for outlets on walls not near your electrical panel. Saves alot of expense going under vs up and over and down.
Looks nice!
HT

[..]

That's the way mine was poured... worst part was digging the rat wall all the way around by hand.
Might I suggest some under floor conduit stubbed up for outlets on walls not near your electrical panel. Saves alot of expense going under vs up and over and down.
Looks nice!
HT

OK

But WHY is it done that way? Trying to understand.

[hairyteeth]

Mine was a pole barn type, so the posts are dug, installed then the frame siding ect. You can't pour concrete against an imaginary post. Even when I looked at an all steel building they just poured the piers for the legs to set on then the floor after it was built.
HT

[R J]

Only reason I ever got was it is a pole barn.    You wouldn't be able to pour and keep the poles level, up & down if ya poured concrete 1st.     Pole barn does not have a floor plate in it to build walls off of.

The contractor I talked to when I built my man cave talked me out of the pole barn due to pouring concrete afterward.    Neighbor has one and before he piled about 4 ton of dirt up against it and tapered out into the yard, there was a lot of ugly concrete exposed on the outside.

My retainer wall is straight up and down concrete.

I know that does not answer your question, but I was just passing on what I was told.

[POPS 57]

Cures better not being in the hot sun. You can pour in the rain. No need to cover later for rain or sun. Concrete goes around poles. And last but not least because that's how we have always done it.         I have two pole sheds one 36x80x10 with a cabin in the front 22 ft. And the other shed is 40x64x14 first 32 ft. will be heated shop. Back half will be cold storage I live in northern M.N. can't heat it all. I have a car lift that's the reason for 14 ft. side walls. Now that I have retired I'm going to sell my house in the cities and add on to the front of the cabin with a basement.

[R J]

Thanks Pops for telling us how it is,  I'm serious on the thanks.

[Daniel Meyer]

*Room* for a Valk? Heck you should be able to do figure 8's on a Valk! 

[Charlie McCready]

Britman, other than the reasons given here I have no idea why they do it that way. One builder I talked with last fall said they could do the concrete inside during the winter after the bldg was erected.