[TheForge] shop floor

[Andrew Vida]

PAvers for a shop floor?  Not likely.  They will not take any real 
weight stress, especially if you're on metallic wheels - the blocks will 
shift and break. Metal or other hard wheels won't roll well at all on 
such surfaces,  given the chamfering of the edges.  I think it would be 
a miserable material for such a floor.

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> 
> i was look over the to-do list for the morning and reading through
> several catalogs online before crawling off to bed when it dawned on me
> that the shop floor has another alternative to concrete, paver
> stone/brick. the advantqge of paver stone is that it may be removed
> without the need and expense of a concrete saw and it may be
> readily reused unlike concrete which must be crushed into stone
> before being reused. so does anyone have paver stone for their shop
> floor?
> 
> the paver stone catalog that i was reading is here.
> 
> Pavestone's Retail Product Catalogs
> http://www.pavestone.com/content/view/150/510/
> 
> 
> saturday, i found paver stone on sale for $0.39 usd per paver stone. so
> i purchased enough paver sone to cover 700 square feet. that is to build
> a backyard patio and replace the concrete sidewalk in the front of the
> home with a paver stone walkway. this is one purchase that i am letting
> them deliver. the paver stone weighs in at 6 lbs per stone. there are
> 4.5 stones to a square ft. there are roughly 450 stones per 100 square feet.
> 
> 700 square feet x 4.5 paver stones per square foot == 3,150 paver stones.
> 
> 3,150 paver stones x 6 lbs per paver stone == 18,900 lbs.
> 
> 3,150 paver stones x $0.39 usd per paver stone == $1,228.50 usd
> 
> i am not up to moving that just yet. i am still out of shape. ;-)
> 
> 
> just for grins. the shop is 28 ft by 40 ft. that is 1120 square feet.
> assuming for the moment that the entire shop floor is paver stone.
> 
> 1120 square feet x 4.5 paver stones per square foot == 5,040 paver
> stones.
> 
> 5,040 paver stones x 6 lbs per paver stone == 30,240 lbs
> 
> 5,040 paver stones x $0.39 usd per paver stone == $1,965.60 usd
> 

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     -Andy Vida

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