Recent content by mx842

Yeah, I hear what you are saying. I have been fooling with concrete for a long time and I get what you are saying. I had the plant come out here to look at what this pad is doing, and they basically said it was the fault of the finisher. They had the record of this pour and told me the batches...

The guy that put the building up did use that on that back wall, but it still did not seal. The problem is now trying to find something that will stick to that. I put several different sellers on there but it just peels off. I'll probably have to take a grinder with a diamond wheel to go in...

If it was just one low spot, that would be one thing but there are a bunch of high and low spots all over the floor.

I have 2.5" of spray foam on the walls and 3" under the roof. The whole building is sealed tight accept under that piece of 5X3 galvanized angle plate that the metal is screwed to. They put those foam pads under the bottom and top between the siding and those angle plates. Those foam pieces do a...

Well, if I did that, I would still have the same problem I have with the other two big doors in the shop and that rear wall as well. The whole problem is that the concrete was finished poorly. There are dips, high spots and places where the concrete had just about gotten away from them...

I had thought about that but decided against it because in the first place this 5" slab is poured over top of the original 6" slab and if I did drill holes, they would stop up in a very short while and I would have holes full of water all over the floor. This low area covers close to 1/3 of the...

I've thought about grinding the outside edge on a slope starting as close to the building as possible. I have a guy coming out to look at it and see if that is a workable solution. I'm going to have to get him to also cut out/grind out the areas at the big doors and put in a proper apron that...

I don't have a drainage problem as far as water not draining away from the building. There is plenty of slope away from the building once it gets off the concrete. Water hits the concrete then runs to the center of the pad. If you look at the two pics where there is no building you can see how...

An operation called Creative Mud in New Kent County Va. I like to advertise for them every time I get a chance.

Yeah, the first building was a pole barn design and all of the outside 6x6 post sit on piers. I also had that poured after the building was up. I didn't use wire on that one I used #4 rebar on 1' centers or squares because I put pex in the floor that time. This one had to be put on a monolithic...

Yeah, I put 2 runs of #5 rebar and 2 runs of #4 rebar on 6" centers, one run 1' from the bottom and the next run 6" above that one in the footer plus 7 rolls of the heavy duty roll mesh wire tied into the rebar. If he had come out the next day like he should and cut his lines, there would have...

Well, the doors are just a small problem compared to the river I have coming in under the metal from the side. If he had of put the aprons in like he should have that part would be ok. All concrete will crack if you don't put in some form of relief to allow the concrete to do its thing. The...

I don't have any pics of the back wall that can tell you anything, but these may give you an idea of what I'm working with. That middle section in pic #3 is where the water trails from.

Well, I already have gutters on the open side shed part. It's the rain that falls and hit's the concrete then in that one area. To fix the thing right I would have to take down the whole building tear out the floor and get someone that knows what they are doing and repour the whole floor. The...

I just had a 60X60' metal building put up and Everything is wonderful accept the lousy concrete pour. Aside from having a bunch of cracks everywhere there is a low place in the center of the floor where water will hit the concrete out in my covered side shed and end up piling up on the wall and...