Use Spancrete for Inexpensive Space Under Your Garage
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Thousands of residential garages have been built with Spancrete® floors, providing large and open spaces below for additional parking, storage, shop, and living spaces—even swimming pools and storm shelters.
Working With Spancrete is Easy
Spancrete produces precast, prestressed concrete Hollowcore® plank for floors and roofs, produced in a number widths, depending upon local manufacturing standards. Plank notches and/or openings required for your floor layout are cut prior to shipping or in the field, depending upon your local manufacturer's standard practice, although small openings are usually provided by others.
The erection process for a typical garage floor takes less than a day. A mobile crane and erection crew hoist the planks from a truck's flatbed trailer, place them directly on the supporting structure, and make all necessary plank-to-wall and/or beam connections. Plank-to-plank joints are leveled and grouted, which transforms the plank floor into a single unit.
A residential garage floor would be typically designed for a minimum one-hour fire rating but can be fire rated for up to four hours. Spancrete also is resistant to high levels of sound transmission and noise impact. It is durable as well as rot and termite proof.
