[TheForge] Shop stuff

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Andy,

I have one of these arched buildings.  It is made of galvinized steel.  And 
they do not give it a very high load rating. They warn of too much snow, so 
concrete would be out of the question.

On a side note, while the building was fast to put up, I regret not having 
straight walls and you loose a lot of space on the edges. So my 40' x 60' 
shop works more like a 30' x 60'.  You can overcome this by pouring a 4' 
retaining wall to put the hoops on, but that's a lot of additional cost.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net


> Anyone familiar in practical terms with those
> buildings whose
> construction is one of a series of modular arches
> made of scrunched up
> metal?  I don't know whether they are aluminum or
> stainless, though I
> doubt they are the latter.
>
> Anyhow, I was wondering whether such a building would
> be strong enough
> to serve as a form for poured concrete construction.
> Put up the
> building and, say, spray gunite all over it to
> perhaps a 12" depth,
> perhaps even with a rebar mesh halfway in.
>
> I am inclined to think it would not be strong enough
> to hold up the wet
> concrete, but I don't really know.  Any ideas?  It
> would make for one
> hell of a strong building.  Spray insulation onto the
> inner surfaces and
>  it would be pretty much nicer in the cold weather.
> I could even
> envision an earth sheltering scheme for such
> construction.
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