I am going to set up a 14×24 portable building that I bought for use as a cabin. I have leveled a pad and plan to pour concrete pillars that will support the beams that the building is built upon.
I am setting some anchors in the pillars that will be used for tie downs. Do you know how many pillars would be suitable? I would also like to put some type insulation under the building? Do you know what may be suitable for this?
Larry
Tom’s Answer:
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Tom: That’s – that’s a hard one to answer, because I don’t know enough about the project. Insulation under the building, yeah, I – I, building should be insulated underneath there. How many pilings he asking?
Charlie: I mean, is there a guestimate like per how many per foot or something?
Tom: No, what happens is you have pier and a beam, you hear that team all the time. The piers are the pilings, they’re the posts, and they go in the ground. Depending on the size of the beam, it could be a big span or it could be a very short span. So for me to design something like that on the air to do it this way, that would be impossible. There are span tables and there are – are …
Charlie: But he says the building is 14 by 24.
Tom: Yeah.
Charlie: Doesn’t do you …
Tom: Could it … Are they on two by sixes or two by eights, or two by tens, or two by twelve’s.
Charlie: Well hold on, let me, let me, divide the answer to this question.
Tom: Yes. Live …
Charlie: I’m sorry.
Tom: If it’s a two by twelve span, as opposed to a two by six. Well about double.
Charlie: All right. Tom, we get the point.
Tom: That’s people that ask me those questions. But it is, you got to think of it as posts and a beam, and a beam regulates how far away the posts are.
Charlie: Right.
Tom: That’s why a – a double garage door has a bigger header than a single garage door.
Charlie: You know what I might recommend to our buddy Larry here? He ought to bring his pans to you next Sunday …
Tom: He can do that.
Charlie: He could show up at Fan Fest and show them to you.
Tom: And you know what? I’ll bring my span tables and I’ll give him a copy.
Charlie: Tom will be sitting behind the span table.
Tom: Actually the span tables are on our, are on our latest issue, on our rod angle.
Charlie: Do you play cards on that? Is it wide enough? Is it wide enough to play cards on your span table? Does it have the fold out legs?
Tom: It’s two pieces of paper.
Charlie: Okay. Sure.
Tom: Now your irritating me. Okay, we got to fill time, huh? Irritate Tom for ten minutes.
Charlie: It’s time to poke the bear. Ladies and Gentleman.
Tom: Yeah. Span tables are the right angle section of Home Show Radio dot com, they’re there for everybody to look at, anytime.