CHEAP! Building Materials. BIG SUPRIZE. 24' x 28' Slab.

I am always looking for a deal on building materials. Everyday I LOOK!!! This is my DEAL OF THE WEEK. ENJOY!

[michaelcarter]

Glad to see you are making some progress on a building. Your weather has been crazy and so has ours. Snow rain ice getting ready for spring weather that's for sure. Cheap lumber for concrete forms is great! Your always going to find a use for them when you get done pouring the slab. Hopefully you can get a slab poured sooner than later so it can cure up nice and slow. Take it easy buddy.

[mandeladams]

Why not #3 or #4 rebar 18" or 24" ? In your area would you have to use a double mat or lawyer of the hog wire to be able to to put any structure on it safely ( not code) ? Broom finish with relief cut or expansion joints. About 12 yards of concrete about $200 / yard two finishers at about 400/ day each. (34 )20' #5 rebar 13.00 ea. about 450.00 w/o tax from Lowe's. 1.5 times the cost of a single roll of hog wire for the whole slab. About 4k is the rough estimate of slab from what.

[zach]

What about a monolithic pour if you decide on a slab? Would cut out blocks and time/labor for laying blocks. Couple more lumber pulls like that and you could form it yourself.

[KirkAllmond]

Tractor Supply is like half the price of Lowes for concrete reinforcement wire. You can also use cattle fencing, it's even cheaper for the same wire.

[dDayye]

Be sure to put a layer of #5 gravel with no dust in it under your slab so any water will drain from underneath it, also cover the area you going to pour with polyethylene under your wire mesh so your concrete floor won't be sweating on humid days, good luck.

[fastsetinthewest]

I put a shop building up on my property. Well, I ain't got no building permits. I got a shade tree general purpose dude to help. I poured the concrete. I called up a metal building company and told them what I needed. The 12 foot high steel building was put up in 1 day. Building has been up 10 years and nobody the wiser. Hahahaha. Eaglegards ...

[lakebum]

Tom,
2 YouTube channels I'd recommend before jumping into this project. RR Buildings and Concrete with the Hauses. Both are excellent at what they do.

[leoc]

Big fan Tom! Love the chanel. Pay someone to pour the foundation! Yes it's 5, 000.00 Call American carport or someone else to put in a metal building! I have done this! My friend you are spinning in a circle with this. Either pull the trigger and just move forward or stop wasting your time! Please don't take this as an insult!

[Junkyard_Dog]

A steel supplier should be able to get the reinforcement wire cheaper than Lowes or a box store. If not I've poured with hog panels before and have no cracks at all. Thicker gauge metal also. #3 rebar should be on the cheaper side and you can tie Mats.

[amossnowdaharleyman]

you can make a dead nuts on accurate level with flexible clear plastic tubing: get 75 feet or so and lay it out from the high point to the low point. Put a stake at each point. Bend the tubing up at 90 degrees and tie to the stakes. Fill tubing with water. Once you get a level at each end the level of the water seen at each end will be perfectly level. From the respective meniscuses' measure and mark your elevations.Accurate to the thickness of the measuring marks on what you use.
First shop building I had built at my farm was 30 x 40 with 10' side walls, 2 10 foot wide overhead doors and 1 man door on a 5" slab. No electric and no plumbing (I did that later).$10, 950.00 built on site. 6 x 8 pole barn type, with trusses on 5' centers and galvalume 26ga metal. That was 13ish years ago.Company still in business and same barn today with 29ga metal is just under 30 grand. Your budget of $20.00 a square foot is doable but will take some smart shopping and lots of labor on your part. Slab is going to chew up a lot of the budget. Go with re-bar and avoid the wire mesh.Mesh is a waste of money. They do offer fiber re-enforced concrete: never used it so I have no opinion on it.Some folks love it (it's cheaper) and some hate it because they had cracking issues.

[oldtimejunkhauling]

A clear hose with water will find the level 100% Two shipping containers on 8 forms then build trusses and two doors on each end. That way you can build a little at a time as you find materials on the cheap.

[yeslatesla]

Tom, "I don't want 4inches, I want 5inches" lol... nuff said brother.

[fredmax]

Wire mesh 66 10 10 was 200 dollars per roll back in 1989. Just goes to show you how little money is worth today.

[corey]

Just put 1/2 inch rebar on a 2ft grid pattern with a 6 mil plastic and have fiber put in the concrete much cheaper

[natephillips]

A long board and a level would have saved you some time and labor

[HANDYMANHEADQUARTERS]

Just pour a slab with a thickened edge and be done. Then build the rest yourself!

[jamesmarquis]

Let's here about the garage space you traded for Labor

[chris]

Great deal on the wood Tom! Crazy price on the steel though. It's your building Tom, build it the way you want even if you change your ideas a lot.. You are the one that is going to be using it not us out here commenting.

[ckstd]

You can rent a laser level or transit at any rental center. No excuse.

[jamesboyer]

if ur not in a hurry, u can and will find deals, fact,