[TheForge] Foundations and shop design

[Jerry Frost]

I can't say much about hammer foundations but lots of 
guys here have plenty of experience there. I just 
thickened my slab to 8" and doubled the rebar where I 
thought I'd put mine. (when I get or build one)

The floor is another matter though. In floor radiant 
heat, you want it unless you live in one of those 
inhumane places where it gets hot in summer and stays 
unpleasantly warm in winter. <grin>

In addition to making grounding points, I set heavy 
wall 2 1/8" ID sq tubing flush with the floor on a 4' 
grid to be receiver tubes for jigs, equipment mounts, 
stops for hydraulic benders, etc. They're welded to the 
rebar so they're grounded independently from the 
building itself. The sockets are also connected to a 
sub floor exhaust system so my welding and cutting 
tables will be down draft and keep the smoke out of the 
air altogether. They'll also draw the cold air off the 
floor in winter instead of the warm air out of the 
eaves.

I'll send you a couple pics of it in the works if you'd 
like.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Ekaterina Harrison" <ekaterina at wildblue.net>



> Hi All,
>
> We are just getting ready to a pour a cement floor in 
> the new shop, we  are building. I have the 
> opportunity here to address and improve my  work 
> environment. I am very excited about this. One of the 
> things we  are doing is running steel under the 
> cement across the whole length of  the shop to to 
> provide more grounding points around the shop and 
> running pipe for airline hook ups and some conduit 
> for stringing some  wiring to the other side of the 
> shop.
>
>  Thanks,
> Ekaterina
>