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    Default SPLIT: Garage studs, slabs, and sealing

    whatever you do, don't do like mine and build without a pony wall. Studs are right on the slab. Gross and causes a lot of issues.
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    whatever you do, don't do like mine and build without a pony wall. Studs are right on the slab. Gross and causes a lot of issues.
    x2, pony wall is a must. Studs on slab are a pain in the dick. I need a lift kit for my garage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    whatever you do, don't do like mine and build without a pony wall. Studs are right on the slab. Gross and causes a lot of issues.
    Yup, plus you can use a 8 foot garage package but get a 10 foot garage height. 100% Worth it.

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    got it thanks! which contractor to pick?

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    x2, pony wall is a must. Studs on slab are a pain in the dick. I need a lift kit for my garage.
    No word of a lie, if this was a thing, I would totally do it. My garage is fuxxored from the stud-on-slab bullshit. Not to mention the odyssey tailgate nearly hits the top of the door.
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    If you guys have studs on the slab that are getting gross, try coating them in this near the floor:

    https://liquidrubber.ca/products/liq...ant=4274483140

    Mine has the proper graded concrete "tub" but I do have 2 wooden studs alongside the garage door and I coated them in that to stop them from getting wet & salty in the winter. It's also just a cool product to have on hand for various DIY things.

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    WtF?! The bottom plate of the walls is supposed to be pressure treated, by code, isn't it? Why are you guys having so many problems?
    While I agree the pony wall is way better, my old garage was fine for more than a decade before I moved.

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    It being pressure treated helps only a little. you should come hang out in my garage and check it out. I'll play a little phil collins, dim the lights . . . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThePenIsMightier View Post
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    WtF?! The bottom plate of the walls is supposed to be pressure treated, by code, isn't it? Why are you guys having so many problems?
    While I agree the pony wall is way better, my old garage was fine for more than a decade before I moved.
    Maybe it is, but it still gets gross & wet if it's just bare wood sitting in water and salt all day in the winter. Most pressure treated wood is brown these days too, maybe some people only associate it with the old green stuff. I helped my parents re-do some of their planter boxes originally made with pressure-treated wood a long time ago and they were so rotten you could pull he wood apart with your hands.

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    I drilled a few holes in the pad where I had water pooling near the wall. Problem fixed.
    I like neat cars.

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    I guess mine was sloped adequately away from the walls that mine never soaked in water.
    Seems easy enough to design for, still.

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    I'm sure if you pick the right garage builder, this is less of an issue, and hey you know what? that's what the OP was asking before some asshole derailed this thread with discussions of stud-on-slab construction.

    I don't even know who built mine, so I can't tell you who to avoid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    It being pressure treated helps only a little. you should come hang out in my garage and check it out. I'll play a little phil collins, dim the lights . . . .
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    No word of a lie, if this was a thing, I would totally do it. My garage is fuxxored from the stud-on-slab bullshit. Not to mention the odyssey tailgate nearly hits the top of the door.
    It's technically possible, I've seen it done in Calgary. You jack up the whole garage and add a course or two of block wall where the pony wall would usually go. You end up reframing your doors and extending utilities so there's some complications but it's doable.

    https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/...8011&showall=1

    Imagine that, but with a cinderblock wall instead of the wooden knee wall.

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    You can move entire garages, at least in some capacity. My friends did it in Kelowna to make room for a pool and it cost them about $5K, so I don't see why you couldn't also raise it once it's on the move. I suspect theirs was a more simple operation than a typical Calgary home though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BerserkerCatSplat View Post
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    It's technically possible, I've seen it done in Calgary. You jack up the whole garage and add a course or two of block wall where the pony wall would usually go. You end up reframing your doors and extending utilities so there's some complications but it's doable.

    https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/...8011&showall=1

    Imagine that, but with a cinderblock wall instead of the wooden knee wall.
    Yeah guy by me just off 10st NW by the Queens Park cemetary did this last summer and poured a knee wall. I didn't get to see much of the pour but it turned out great.

    There's also a video series I've seen of this type of thing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UrPr7avsY

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    Be a little bigger hassle since my garage is a duplex with my neighbour. Damned inner-city infills. I only talk to that dude about twice a year too. Maybe I'd have to increase the communication to make that work, lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Be a little bigger hassle since my garage is a duplex with my neighbour. Damned inner-city infills. I only talk to that dude about twice a year too. Maybe I'd have to increase the communication to make that work, lol.
    This is the way

    In other news anyone have advise for refinishing a near destroyed 70 year old garage floor? Cracked and chipping near every inch.

    A levelish solid slab would be such a novel concept....
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Be a little bigger hassle since my garage is a duplex with my neighbour. Damned inner-city infills. I only talk to that dude about twice a year too. Maybe I'd have to increase the communication to make that work, lol.
    ah. Interesting point- i'd always thought of those garages as a "bonus" rather than a liability but I see why in this scenario that is not true.

    Here's a crazy idea- what if you replaced the bottom two feet of wallboard (or if you dont have drywall, even better, zero demo needed) with a cement board (ie. durock or similar) and just threw up a bricklay pattern of the cheapest, nearly-cement-coloured tiles you could find? Similar benefits to a stem/pony wall but none of the crazy structural changes needed.

    If you're finding the sheathing and the framing are wicking up water from surrounding landscape, then that's a different problem of course, my frou frou tile-your-garage-idea will not help a lick.

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    Cut it out and repour. I've seen that topping shit not last a year.
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