Posted by paul on September 04, 2018 at 15:49:29 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Pole barn poles rotted posted by FarmerBlair on September 04, 2018 at 14:05:40:
Best is to dig through the dirt beside the old post to below frost or 4 feet, put in a stub pole, and use long bolts (rebar) to sister the new post to the old post.
Since you want to do a concrete floor, you can pour, make a fatter (deeper) foundation piece along the edge, and then use big angle iron type brackets to bolt to the floor and to the remaining old post. This effectively turns your pole building, anchored into the ground, into a floating slab building, so doing a few posts one way and leaving others the old way can be a problem if you live where there is frost and winter and such. Just remember the wall needs sideways and upward stability with wind, and so you need the concrete and the brackets strong enough to hold both the downward weight of the building, as well as the side pressure of the wind and the lifting pressure of the wind. If this is a car shed size or a 60x84 size shed with tall sidewalls will make a difference here!
What I would not do is try to encase a pole in the poured concrete floor. No! The poles are anchored to the subsoil, the floor slab floats on the clay and frost. The two will move several inches to each other over the year, you do not want them both ways fixed to each other. Put slip plastic around the poles to keep a sliding seam between the poles and the concrete. Bad things happen over the years if you try to go both ways in most climates.
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