Do-it-yourself budget garage in two weeks. Part 1 - foundation

Filling a slab for a frame garage on a base from used hollow spaces

Winter is a great time to plan the next season and get started without wasting time. And the best help is real experience. It is necessary to "master" the garage, the budget, as usual, is modest, but you want a decent result - you are welcome. FORUMHOUSE has a story for this case from Vovka_s. He tells how he built a budget garage and what he saved on.

How to save on concrete

It all started with the fact that I decided to build a garage in the country in order to permanently store the NIVU in it on which I go to pick mushrooms, go fishing, etc. Since the construction was unplanned, the budget for the garage was minimal.

I thought about how I can inexpensively make a foundation for a future garage.. The decision came by itself.. A neighbor offered to give me 4 floor slabs that had been lying idle with him for a long time. Resolved! The foundation will be monolithic.

I cleared the area, leveled it and placed the slabs using the manipulator. The result was a base, measuring 4.16x6 m. Then, I dug even in front of the garage under the entrance area, 1.5 m long, and made a filling with bricks and rubble. I put the formwork from the old inch board, put the reinforcing mesh. To raise the mesh above the base, instead of supports, I used cuttings of a sewer pipe cut by 50 mm.

Then a mixer was called and 3.5 m³ of concrete was poured onto this base. A few hours after pouring, I covered the stove with a film and for a week I opened it every day and spilled it with water. The floor slabs were used as filler because the difference between the front and rear of the garage was about 40 cm and I wanted to save on concrete.

Budget turned out 18 thousand rubles: materials, manipulator, concrete delivery.

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Do-it-yourself budget garage in two weeks. Part 1 - foundation

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