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I'm designing and building a 161ft2 media blast room to be built on a friend's rural property so we will be able to media blast large equipment...
The first requirement is that it not require a permit. So it had to have a 15M footprint maximum within the exterior boundary.
The second requirement is that the space needs to be constructed very quickly, by the end of the building season.
The third requirement is for the space to be inexpensive to construct yet also durable.
The fourth requirement is that the space be large enough to store a Kubota tractor with attached loader to free up some garage space.
Based on the Kubota tractor dimensions and the desire to use a standard 8x7 garage door the space needed to be 105" x 194"
My friend has left over steel siding and left over steel roofing which is to our advantage. He was able to purchase a pallet of 2x4 dimensions grade 2 lumber at half price. So the framing will be 2x4. The roof will have 2x4 trusses that span 9.5'
The base will be 6" reinforced floating slab of 32 MPa concrete on a 6" base of compacted crushed granular material. There will be a 7.5" high curb of concrete masonry units with the cores filled with concrete. Rebars sections will anchor the curb to the slab and bolts set in the block cores anchor the walls to the curb.
I raised the heel height and eliminated an integrated footing after a couple of calculations proved the footing was overkill and the increased heel cost no more but improved the design in a couple of ways.
I was thinking of the beam install at the green point, next to the truss set. I have a couple of steel posts I can install to transfer the load to the foundation. Then I could hinge a panel at the ceiling so that it can be sloped out to direct errant media into the media hopper
The shed will have OSB siding on both the exterior and interior (not shown), but it has yet to be determined how to treat the interior walls. Is there a need/benefit for rubber coated walls, and if so what product will work but not cost too much.
Next question is should I build a beam at the mid-point of the shed that can support 750lb so as to avoid needing to use a gantry crane when blasting equipment?
I want to make a 8' x 2' wide media hopper that can sit on the floor, with the parts to be blasted suspended above so that much of the media is collected by the hopper. When not in use the media hopper can be hoisted up to the ceiling level. A back board can also be lowered so that it sits at an angle to direct media towards the hopper.
The first requirement is that it not require a permit. So it had to have a 15M footprint maximum within the exterior boundary.
The second requirement is that the space needs to be constructed very quickly, by the end of the building season.
The third requirement is for the space to be inexpensive to construct yet also durable.
The fourth requirement is that the space be large enough to store a Kubota tractor with attached loader to free up some garage space.
Based on the Kubota tractor dimensions and the desire to use a standard 8x7 garage door the space needed to be 105" x 194"
My friend has left over steel siding and left over steel roofing which is to our advantage. He was able to purchase a pallet of 2x4 dimensions grade 2 lumber at half price. So the framing will be 2x4. The roof will have 2x4 trusses that span 9.5'
The base will be 6" reinforced floating slab of 32 MPa concrete on a 6" base of compacted crushed granular material. There will be a 7.5" high curb of concrete masonry units with the cores filled with concrete. Rebars sections will anchor the curb to the slab and bolts set in the block cores anchor the walls to the curb.
I raised the heel height and eliminated an integrated footing after a couple of calculations proved the footing was overkill and the increased heel cost no more but improved the design in a couple of ways.
I was thinking of the beam install at the green point, next to the truss set. I have a couple of steel posts I can install to transfer the load to the foundation. Then I could hinge a panel at the ceiling so that it can be sloped out to direct errant media into the media hopper
The shed will have OSB siding on both the exterior and interior (not shown), but it has yet to be determined how to treat the interior walls. Is there a need/benefit for rubber coated walls, and if so what product will work but not cost too much.
Next question is should I build a beam at the mid-point of the shed that can support 750lb so as to avoid needing to use a gantry crane when blasting equipment?
I want to make a 8' x 2' wide media hopper that can sit on the floor, with the parts to be blasted suspended above so that much of the media is collected by the hopper. When not in use the media hopper can be hoisted up to the ceiling level. A back board can also be lowered so that it sits at an angle to direct media towards the hopper.