Home is where the car is.

[WickedWild]

Here is my plight. I recently purchased a house and with this house came a 40 x 72 barn. The barn is awesome, about 150 years old and still very solid. It’s all hand plane native timber wooden peg (no nails) construction. There are 4 levels, the bottom level it like a walk out basement where the cows stayed (concrete floor). The second floor is half pored concrete over wood (about a 2â€-4†cap) and the other half needs a new floor. The floor joist are 2’x 2’ x 40’ trees about 4’ on center. This is where I want my main shop area and where I’m going to turn a school bus into a car/Jeep hauler. I need to put a floor in this room that is inexpensive, strong, non-conductive, non-flammable, impact resistant, and non-pores (sp?). It needs to hold the weight of a school bus, not absorb the gas and oil I spill, not burn when I weld/cut, and still not break my wallet. I know that there have been many posts about garages in the past, but how many of them were for a second story one? I need ideas for this.

[BillZ260]

i would definatly suggest you make friends with an engineer, specifically a structual. ANY ON THIS BOARD?? My neighbor is one, I'll see if he is any help next time i see him...

[spdsk8r]

Many new houses around here are using this for garage floors, so they can also have garage storage on the walkout level, under the main level garage. http://www.spancrete.com

[WickedWild]

Many new houses around here are using this for garage floors, so they can also have garage storage on the walkout level, under the main level garage. [url']www.spancrete.com[/url]

I'll check that out as soon as they get the sight back up.

Thanks, anyone else?