Nothing beats smooth concrete. Now is the time also to think about
stringing wires or pipe under the concrete for in-floor heating.
There is nothing nicer than to work on a warm floor. I assume that
if you are trying to get out of the weather, it gets cold there too.
Bruce K
57 3200
Mt. Iron, MN
At Monday, 30 December 2002, you wrote:
>> Any good ideas for workshop flooring material?
>>
>> I've got a former greenhouse (20' x 30') that I've covered with a
>> weatherproof fabric especially designed for buildings. But the
ground is
>> hard-packed dirt. I had one guy estimate $4000 to put rebar and
a concrete
>> floor in. He said he had to pump the concrete in because the building
was
>> already constructed.
>>
>> Does that price sound right? Ouch.
>
>Concrete has gone up since I built my shop 10 yrs ago...but that price
>doesn't sound tooooo far out of line.
>
>> Any other ideas for cost-effective over-dirt flooring? Is concrete
to only
>> way to go, or could there be a less expensive but happy alternative?
>
>I got to visit the closed down Chevy factory in Kansas City, where
my 55
>Belair was built. It had brick flooring in part of the downstairs
>area. I suppose a brick floor would work, but using a floor jack and
>jackstands on it would be iffy.
>
>A solid, well built and well supported wood floor would also work, but
>would probably be as expensive as concrete.
>
>But I did my first ole truck work in the dirt (when I was a teenager),
>so you might be able to manage also. It's a nuisance, but if you only
>have enough money to either buy the parts for the truck, or build a
>place to work on the truck, then working on dirt may be the only
>solution :)
>
>> I wanna get to work on my '49 3100!
>
>I'll bet you do!
>
>Jim
>59s in AZ
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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