As I posted before, we just bought a house. We’re in love with the place, which sits on a full acre, but it does need a few things. Such as a workshop/garage.
We’re hoping to break ground on a shop sometime around April. I’ve done my share of working on houses, but one thing I’ve never tackled is foundation work. Specifically, slab foundations. So, to get some experience with them I’m going to pour a small slab, large enough to park a car on. It’ll serve as a place to put a car to do suspension alignments. It’ll need to be perfectly level, but I figure that’ll be part of the learning process.
Over time I want to experiment with several suspension setups on my Protégé. I can do the suspension work myself, but one thing I can’t do yet is my own alignments. The level slab will enable me to do those, too. Once I have the shop built and I can do alignments indoors, we could turn the first slab into the foundation of a good-sized storage shed.
I want to pour the small slab for the experience and to see if we could do a larger foundation ourselves, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s one thing we have to have done professionally.
