Basement Under Garage Floor

Looking to build a 24 40 detached garage with a basement under the garage in about 6 months.

Basement under garage floor.

The garage will be on a hill so the back side on the bottom will be about level with the ground and have a 8 garage door. I am looking for concrete manufactures in my area who manufacture prestressed floor panals for the load bearing garage floor. How does the more common floor garage compete against a basement garage. Carrara sons inc from middlebury vt.

For one a traditional garage is much simpler structurally. There s a reason you rarely see basement space under a garage even on new construction. They require a great deal of support underneath and that s best provided by undisturbed earth. In order to put a space underneath.

How to have a full basement under your garage. Basement under garage i ve done a couple houses with rooms under the garage generally the engineer has called for 12 thick steel reinforced foundation walls on all four sides and flexicore pre engineered concrete slabs for the garage floor with the flexicore bolted directly to the foundation. The advantages that a floor garage has over its competition are immediately obvious as they are the opposite of the underground variant. When the foundation was installed a special cut out or shelf was poured for the garage walls.

The floor planks are installed on the shelf with no support. The garage floor planks were specifically engineered and manufactured for the home by j. If you are just in the planning stage it would be best to avoid any basement area under the garage.