The garage build.

**Rich Z** · 08-17-2009, 01:42 AM

Figured I would start a separate thread about my garage being built.

Here's a video of the first step: clearing the land and prepping the area for the slab to be poured. This was done by Welch Construction.

vett boy · 08-17-2009, 06:58 AM

Intreasting

9T8Vette · 08-17-2009, 12:34 PM

Cool Rich

**Rich Z** · 08-17-2009, 04:42 PM

Friday a friend of mine (Ricky) and I went to the permit office to check on the permit for this garage. The guy in charge of this stuff wasn't there, but one of the girls said she was 99.9 percent sure that we would need to have a soil bore test done on the site. Sheesh, for a garage? Anyone heard of something like this? Ricky said the most headache of this whole thing would be dealing with the permit office, so I'm expecting the worst....

85vette · 08-17-2009, 09:36 PM

Yeah, and they're not known for getting in a hurry either! They'll get to it when they get to it.....

**Rich Z** · 08-30-2009, 04:27 PM

Had soil borings done on Friday. There is pipe clay at three corners of the area where the garage will go, but down between 8.5 and 9 feet. The engineer for the building doing the foundation drawings says that won't be a problem. So hopefully I'll have the drawings this week.

Had the concrete guy (Mike Smith - Custom Concrete Services) come by today and look over the site. He'll be back on Wednesday to put in the forms for the slab. He's going to do the slab first, then the 20 ft. apron afterwards. I told him the important criteria is that the slope from the apron into the garage cannot be too sharp that I can't get my cars over the lip without scraping the undercarriage. After that, he really can't do anything until I have the permit.

I will be going to the permitting office on Monday to get that started. Evidently they have it arranged that you need to get a permit to get a permit, if that makes any sense. Pretty much just a way to make an additional $30 out of everyone who wants to get a permit.

But hopefully there won't be any major headaches with this. From what some people are saying, as long as the engineer doing the foundation drawings states that the pipe clay will not be an issue with the foundation and states such in the documents, then there won't be any problems. But we'll see....