On 1/23/26 6:13 PM, gblake58tr3--- via Fot wrote:
>
> Build as big as you can from the get go, it will never be enough space,
> and it will never be cheaper
Shortly after we got our house in 1986, we had the old garage replaced.
Went about as big as we could given the lot size. I wake up one morning
to the sounds of a crew getting the forms finished for the pouring of
the slab. I amble out there, take a look and start yelling "Stop! Stop!"
The foreman comes over to chat, and I tell him the slab is too small, it
is supposed to be 20 feet wide and 24 feet deep. He huffs and puffs and
says he is following the blueprints, he is right, the crew built the
form exactly as they should have, and so on. He says "Let's go look at
the plans and I'll show you." We walk to his truck, he gets out the
plans, looks at them a moment, quickly rolls them up and says "Let's go
take another look."
Turns out the specs did NOT say "20 feet by 24 feet" but something like
the depth of the old garage by the depth plus 4 feet, something weird
like that. By this time the truck is there pouring cement. He then has
his crew build more forms, adding 2 feet per side and 4 feet to the
rear, making it 20 x 24. So another truck came by the next day and
poured the outside extensions.
So if you are ever in my garage and look at the seams in the floor, you
will know why they are the way they are.
mjb.
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