I’ve posted here a few times about the garage I’m building–now I have another questions.
My original plan was to pour a monolithic slab and then stick construction–well now after I thinking that I will need to build cinder block walls up to a hieght of about 24″ and then back fill dirt–and then build the rest of the walls with 2 x 6 construction.
Is there anything wrong with building the cinderblock walls right on the monolithic slab–if I did it that way I would stub out rebar to help tie it all together.
Any advice?
cje
Take what you want, leave the rest
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would stub out rebar to help tie it all together
That works, so does doweling the bar to the poured slab.
Mark out all of your door openings first, and allow for the framing for same--it can be easy to get carried away putting the block in for a nice simple shape like a garage.
A slick, no hitches, got started then done, day of laying block sure is marred by "Hey, ain't there a door o'er here, some'ere?"
Good advice
I'll only be doing block on three sides and the forth is where all the door opening go--so it really should be pretty simple and the wall won't go high enough to worry about window openings.
cjeTake what you want, leave the rest
is where all the door opening go--so it really should be pretty simple
Yeah, having the openings (to floor level) on one side will be much simpler.
Oh, don't forget, if there's backfill on the block, you probably want waterproofing there, too (if only so the draintile below actually collects water). You're really building a short basement wall, but it can be easy to forget that in a garage.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
I'm not a contractor and far from an expert, but some questions that occur to me:
Don't you need a properly thick footing for cinderblock walls that are going to carry a the weight of a garage?
How thick is the slab?
Any weather issues like frost lines where you're building that might require footings?
I'm guess'n you are building intoa hill and chances are that hill keeps going up past the back of your building... so water/run off will run toward your rear wall? which way will the water shed from your roof?... like others have said make sure you waterproof the back side well before you backfill... as for the weight of the blocks u really aren't talk'n about much but you still need a footing for your area... depending on your skill/labor costs I'm not sure you couldn't form and pour this cheaper than block'n it...
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