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I am needing extra garage space. I have been thinking of building a pole barn type garage across form my attached garage. The problem is money right now. I can only afford a gravel floor. I would like to complete this project myself with maybe some help lifting and things from my brother. My thinking is 24 feet wide by 32 feet long. (I can get pre made trusses at 24 feet.)
Is it ok to have a gravel floor? Right now, the lot where the building would go is about 10 inches different from the highest point to the lowest point.
Also, I read somewhere of a construction method I had never heard of before. You would gig holes just like for poles in a pole barn but you would put posts in there that only stuck out a foot or two. You would put purlins similar to what you put on the top of pole barn posts around these lower posts. Then, conventional stick framing similar to a house was used on top of this. I dont know of anyone around here that builds that way but it seemed interesting and easier for a man to do himself because htere were no tall poles to deal with and fiddle with getting perfectly square and the walls could be built in sections.
I live out in farm country and codes I dont believe will be an issue.