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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
How about a 30x30 prefab garage?
Or you could just put up a pole barn? The bags would still stay dry.
Plus MMA mats would be folded up when not in use.
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Well, the 30x30 prefab garage or carport would be expen$ive. A pole barn would require trusses, decking for the roof plus a covering (shingles?) plus siding. Sheet metal could be used for the roof but that is where I discovered the outrageous price of barn tin. I've looked back and forth for over a year at the options, at the moment ferrocement seems the simplest and least expensive option. A barrel vault doesn't require separate roofing (the side walls are the roof etc), all it requires is a mesh and cement mix.
The prefab garage or carport (even without walls) would cost close to 5000 or more, and I'd still have to make walls and a floor. A soilcrete floor could work but I still have to elevate it above existing grade and provide some kind of drainage.
I don't trust myself to make wooden trusses and steel trusses would cost just as much as wooden ones (I'd use less but each would cost more). I'm not sure I could just do a slant roof (lean-to style) with 2x8 rafters for a 30ft span, I mean I've seen some sketchy carports but...
I thought about buying a big canopy tent off Amazon and just coating it with cement to make a sort of fabric-reinforced concrete shell. I know that has been done before with burlap, not sure if the cheap chinesium tent fabric would bond to it well enough.
I also thought about making a hoop house out of 1 inch PVC and putting construction netting over it all or maybe plastic window screen and then plastering that with latex cement. 1 inch pvc 10ft sticks are $1 cheaper than 10ft rebar rods... But I still have the issue of sealing where the walls meet the floor...
Now I see why engineers make the big bux.
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