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you have any experience growing rice?
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(10-25-2016, 09:03 PM)Bob10 Wrote: you have any experience growing rust?
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I will build the yard up a little, but so far problems water sitting up lately.
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(10-25-2016, 04:20 AM)CJIII Wrote: Will use rebar, and wire mesh. The slab will be 4'' thick.
You should make a sketch for the reinforcement, made part of the contract, so they don't cheat.
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I recently got three bids myself to widen the driveway and pour some additional pad on side of house for garbage cans. I decided to go with the cheapest guy, also 1200....problem was he never showed up to do the job. Promised to be here next day...nothing, more promises, but never showed up.. So went with the middle quote, 1450, guy was great, came on time, cleaned everything up, very happy with job.
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(10-24-2016, 09:19 PM)CJIII Wrote: I live in Central Alabama.
I will say I live in tx and it's quite a bit hotter here than Alabama but here I would insulate the slab. You would be surprised how much heat is transferred from the ground to the slab. My slab will easily get up to 100* in the summer. Also if I were building a shop from scratch here I'd put pex in for in floor cooling and run the irrigation well water through the slab to cool it. Not cold water like up north but would still remove heat for free while watering.
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Your concrete slab in an enclosed building gets to 100*? That's some kind of hot dirt you got there.
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But piles 2' above grade might be a consideration?
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I think the suggestion is build it like a dock and add stairs or a floating ramp
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