On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:38:25 GMT, "Eddie Kee"
wrote:

I am going to build a workshop this spring and move out of the basement. I
am planning a 30 x 40 building with 9 foot ceilings. My big concern is the
floor. I would like a wood floor and not concrete. I was thinking at first
of having an insulated slab pured and then placing placing wood 2x anchored
to the concrete and then plywood and oak on top. I have 1000's bf of
airdried oak that I will use for the final floor. Then the though accoured
to me to just pour colums and build a joist floor system out of treated
lumber. Filling between the joists with gravel, placing a vapor barrier
down and then plywood with the oak finish on tope. Any thoughts. I want to
make sure the critters have a hard time getting in since we live out in the
sticks and that is the reason for the gravel between the joists. The
building will be heated. Any thoughts or questions would be approciated.

I'd go with your wood over slab approach, but either would really work
ok. I think you climate will determine which is best to some extent,
since wood near the ground in wet climates isn't too great an idea,
but with the slab under it would be fine.

Also, I'd bump that ceiling up to 10', occasionally I even wish I had
gone 12' instead of 10.

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Tim Douglass

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