[TheForge] shop floor

[wmullett at bright.net]

Andy,

Pavers will work but not those cheap, thin, concrete patio pavers.  Brick pavers were used for years in industrial areas because they will take abuse.  As with all building things, it starts with the foundation, which in the case of with pavers, is the base you lay them on.

And wheeled carts roll well over them as well ... just depends on the ratio of wheel diameter to the surface you are rolling over.  Big wheels work going over big cracks / stones... 

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>Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:24:05 -0400
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] shop floor  
>To: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>,Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>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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