all growed up

[quadnostart]

very excited, brought my very first home yesterday and am finally moving back out of the city. :cheers: Nothing against Winnipeg just need more space. Got 2.25 acres in St Genevieve that has a good sized mobile home on it and lots of trees. Can't wait to get the new quad and get to know the area. Any members in the area ? :scooter:

Any ways I do have 1 Question tho, Got a quote on a garage. 24 x 28 and they said the cement floor should be 6 inches, does that sound thick enough ?

[Maxter]

Congrats on buying your first home.

[mailman]

Yup, congrats. From here on in, your parents will get alot smarter.

[dodgecat]

Welcome to the neighborhood, I live in the bay in Ste-G. Did you buy the house that was for sale in the bay? I'm sure you will love your new home here as we are.

[manitoba450es]

6 inches in the middle, should be 18 or so at the outside edges. I think but am not 100% sure, that any pad over 24x24 is suppose to be an engineered slab.
or it might be anything over 30x30.

Something like that.

Hope that helps

Mike

[quadnostart]

Thanks mike ,, and yes we got the lot on the bay thx for the welcome we move in june 1st

[Loudelectronics]

Congrats man! Going through the same thing right now. Definatly a learing process. These realators like to take you for all your worth.

[quadnostart]

yup the one we had was really good, so we thought :action-smiley-070:

[Sasquatch]

My shop is 44x30. We moved it in 6 years ago and put it on a new pad. The floor is 5 inches thick with a thickened edge. That means they dug down about 6 more inches about a foot wide all around the perimeter which gives you close to a 1'x1' edge to act as a foundation. The rebar is more important than thickness. Ours is in at 18" on centre. I've had a 10,000 pound tractor in the centre of the shop with no problems. Before you pour the floor think about things like anchor points and pedestal mounts for future use. We put four 2.5" square tubes in the floor. They are 5 inches deep with the bottom end welded to a plate that sat on the sand and then the tube was welded to rebar. The floor was poured to the top of the tube so nothing sticks out above the floor. A 2x2 square tube slips right in so now I have my tire changer and my metal bender on short pieces of tube so when not in use they pull out and get moved aside. Just some idea's you might want to use. Brad

[SwampCat]

6" should do just fine if the job isn't done to sloppy. I have a 60' x 140' commercial shop with a 6" to 8" floor (8" where we put our Shear and 187ton Brake) we stack pallets of sheet metal up to 100,000lb on one stack with no problems so any small misc. use garage would have no problem with a 6" floor.

[Wolf]

Congrats on the new house.
6" is plenty for a garage. The "standard" pad is less than that with a well packed gravel base under it. Although a nice feature to have, a grade beam is not necessary for a garage.

[muddyguy]

Congrats on the new house,BTW whens the party....lol

[bwery]

I'm close to the area. Here is a heads up. further east on the 501 is a gravel pit on the south side. Good for swimming and I threw some jack fish in there to. Not sure if they made it because the water really dropped last year. That pit is about 6 feet dow from the previous year. also, head north on monimento and when you see a barb wire fence on the east side that has white shopping bags tied all down it turn west. This leads to some really nice gravel pits. The water is an awsome colour and it is beautiful for swimming. I'll also point out the obvious that pits also make for good ridding! if you head east down 501 and south on the 302, on the east side their is a metal pole beside a road. their are pits to the east and west of this point (the west has jack fish, also known as richer pits) and the east is called ross pits. Crap loads of trails running through ross pits. If you go south of ross pits through the new roseau river aquired land, their is the BEST mud trail ever! runs just off ennis pits! if you continure down 501 through ross you can make your way to reynolds ponds area which is also awsome for ridding and is stocked with fish. Have fun and welcome to the area!

[quadnostart]

:cheers: thanks alot can't wait to try that out, move in June 1st but may need to go early to do some riding

[GD6 Dave]

If you are really concerned about the floor, spend the $150 for a load of 3/4 minus road base. Once you have spread the road base, use a 1000lb. plate tamper and compact it. You will never have any problems with the floor. As for a thickened edge, I would rather dig in a 2 ft. frost wall with an eight inch foundation, then pour the floor to the edge. This will stop the frost from getting under the floor and causing it to heave. The pads we pour are usually 4" thick.

Edit: I have done about fifteen this way since January and it is the only way an engineer will sign off on it.

[hounddog]

I live less than a mile east of St Genevieve. Bwery, is that really muddy trail by ennis pits the one that runs south at the far end? If so, that trail gets super muddy in the peat-boggy area! How far does it go?? By the way, if you turn east at the farm at the south end of St Genevieve and go up a half mile, then turn through the gate and stick to the left, you will ride on a really nice little trail that'll take you right to the pits with pike in them on th 302.

[bwery]

Bwery, is that really muddy trail by ennis pits the one that runs south at the far end? If so, that trail gets super muddy in the peat-boggy area! How far does it go??

Sounds like the same one. That trail will go all the way to the #1 highway close to Double S. Tricky part is comming from the #1 to Ennis. The trail splits and goes in two directions half way down. one side is dryer and the other is, the awsome muddy one. The problem with the dryer one is it goes into a trail with very low hanging thorn brush, hwthorne or buffalo berry or whatever. Nopt so much fun when your ducking all the way! Just across the road from ennis is another trail that dips into a ditch and runs north to Ross pits. That trail I find ver senic, especially if you turn west when you see the beer can. nice trails. See you out their some time. Not sure if you know or have met mike grawburger in ross yet but if you hook up with him he knows the ross trails really well.