pennsicdance: Status Reports for Flooring

[Bruce Davis]

Vanessa Layne wrote:

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> There's something you don't know about housing construction.
> 
> Houses built that way are on nice cement foundations.  There is no
> (well, minimal) risk of
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> when the four corners of the house are so well anchored relative to
> one another.
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> We, however, can't anchor the corners of our structure that well.
> This mode of failure is more of a possibility.  I don't know to what
> an extent.  I would expect significantly, due to post wobble.

Has anyone checked?  Can we pour concrete footings - like the
ones used for a deck?  It would be nice to leave them there
from year to year - but we could dig them out at the end of
Pennsic if worse came to worse.  Who would we ask about this?

Mind you, this would not be a permanent "structure" - just
permanent footings.

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> Also note that real floor joists (especially for big floors :) are big
> and expensive.  After all, they're supposed to last 100+ years without
> being replaced.  We might go with smaller cheaper lumber.  We should cost
> compare.

Agreed.  Most floor joist are at least 2x6 - as are most deck
joists.
 
> However, this begs the question in my mind if aluminum frame might be
> better than 2x4s.  I'm still rather unfamiliar with aluminum, but I
> understand it's quite popular; no idea on the cost.

Expensive.  I can work with wood fairly well.  Aluminum?  I
could bolt something together, but design, cut & construct -
that's beyond my experience.

Ayden Pathfinder
Barony of Carolingia, East Kingdom
ayden at carolingia.org

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