Concrete Wall Building (Question)

[Hawklore]

Allright, the parents have decided against moving...

Well, we still don't have enough space, but we do have half a 2 car garage that is being used for, well holding crap.

My mom has made a suggestion of putting a room in the garage.

So I made up a slight drawing of how to split the garage so we could fit a room into the other half.

Well, with living in FL and being prone to flooding, we occasionaly flood from underneath the garage door, so I want to put a concrete block wall where the door is, I figured it's simple enough.



My questions are,

Do building codes require the living spaces to be so many more inches off the ground to prevent flooding? Or is that our decision?

What is the formula to figure out how many concrete blocks you would need for said area to be walled off?


Here's the drawing.

Green=Existing Wall
Yellow=Concrete Block Wall
Brown/Baby ****=Drywall



Dimensions of the garage door gap area after wood panneling is removed would/should be.

195" L
8.5" W
85" H

PS:

One more question,

What would I need to be able to put a concrete floater down to raise the height of the room up.

[Suave]

Crap is wasting your space.

Know what I do with crap? Dispose of it.

You don't have to be monastic but simplify man.

You're not sexually active, at least not in your folk's house, so what do you need a bed for? Get rid of it, it's bad for your back anyway. Heck your room is probably carpeted so you don't even need a sleeping pad.

Entertainment center? Sell it. What use is a TV, you have VHS that you don't have on cd rom or dvd ? Besides, anything worth watching that comes on TV is on the intardnet.

Stereo? Why? Your parents let you have parties at the house? No. Sell it. MP3 player and your pc are all the entertainment electronics you need.

Man if it's not something you've used in the last year and it's not something you may need in an emergency then convert it into money.
Sell it.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Hawklore
Well, we still don't have enough space, but we do have half a 2 car garage that is being used for, well holding crap.

A garage is for cars. If it's being used for "storage", it's time to get rid of a lot of stuff.

[Skuzzy]

Before you even think of converting a garage into a room, check the local ordnances.  In most cases, you need a permit and various inspections.  Once completed, your parents taxes will go up (depending on the state/local tax code) due to increase in living space.

If you do this buildout without going through the proper channels, your parents will pay dearly when they try to sell the house.

[nirvana]

Suave


Garage sale time Hawklore, make it a weekend affair and try to make $5 off the junk sitting around.

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Before you even think of converting a garage into a room, check the local ordnances.  In most cases, you need a permit and various inspections.  Once completed, your parents taxes will go up (depending on the state/local tax code) due to increase in living space.

If you do this buildout without going through the proper channels, your parents will pay dearly when they try to sell the house.

Thanks Skuzz..

I'll be asking around about that aswell.

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by Suave

You're not sexually active, at least not in your folk's house, so what do you need a bed for? Get rid of it, it's bad for your back anyway. Heck your room is probably carpeted so you don't even need a sleeping pad.

( I have a twin bed, I barely fit on that as is, it's used so I can atleast have room to sleep without shoving stuff onto the area I sleep.)

Entertainment center? (Don't Have One, unless you count where the TV and bookshelves all come together for watching of local news or DVD's.)

Stereo? (Don't have one of those either.)

[mora]

Why do you have the doors opening to inside?

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by mora
Why do you have the doors opening to inside?

Incase of intruder it allows one to pin themselves against the door, not allowing someone to gain acess.

Or to baracade the door.

It makes more sense to have them go out, for room inside, but I prefer safety.

[storch]

welcome to the world of the new florida building code, by far the most stringent that i know of.  you may thank the dade county building department for that.  be prepared to dish out big bucks.  then be prepared to dish out big bucks for the work too.  around here you can no longer obtain owner/builder permits for anything!!!

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by storch
welcome to the world of the new florida building code, by far the most stringent that i know of.  you may thank the dade county building department for that.  be prepared to dish out big bucks.  then be prepared to dish out big bucks for the work too.  around here you can no longer obtain owner/builder permits for anything!!!

What?

That's bull****.

One should be allowed to build onto their house as they see fit!

Ugh, well atleast I got my eletrical contractor coverd, now for the masonry.

There are mexicans down the road..

[BlueJ1]

You dont fit on a twin size bed?  

Nobody mess with the hulk.

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by BlueJ1
You dont fit on a twin size bed?  

Nobody mess with the hulk.

I sleep curled up so it's not that big of a deal,

I guess I do fit on it, just I do alot of floppin around!

[Bodhi]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Before you even think of converting a garage into a room, check the local ordnances.  In most cases, you need a permit and various inspections.  Once completed, your parents taxes will go up (depending on the state/local tax code) due to increase in living space.

If you do this buildout without going through the proper channels, your parents will pay dearly when they try to sell the house.

What Skuzzy said... you screw around in Florida without a permit, and you might as well just bend over... because it is going right up the old arse whether you fight or not.

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by Hawklore
Incase of intruder it allows one to pin themselves against the door, not allowing someone to gain acess.

Or to baracade the door.

It makes more sense to have them go out, for room inside, but I prefer safety.

you know up here we make the doors on a garage swing OUT because someone can not kick in an outsing door and rob it.