In-Floor Scissor Lift DIY
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It's not a huge consideration but, since we're in an earthquake zone, I also feel a little safer having the "wider" support of the scissor lift ... though that does come at the price of some obstruction of outside underneath areas. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. $;-))
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I am mechanical eng. not civil but your work is perfection with absolute attention to detail. You even used some rebar in the concrete. Was your original concrete pad barely 4”? I forget that I have been blessed with 27’X24’ garage, I have 3 cars in it most of the time. A few years back I was able to fit 4 when there was a warning hurricane.
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I am mechanical eng. not civil but your work is perfection with absolute attention to detail. You even used some rebar in the concrete. Was your original concrete pad barely 4”? I forget that I have been blessed with 27’X24’ garage, I have 3 cars in it most of the time. A few years back I was able to fit 4 when there was a warning hurricane.
The garage-floor slab is nominally 4" thick and, after aging for 60+ years, is _extremely_ hard (and brittle, of course). I tend to over-engineer things so, yes, there's rebar (set on "chunks of concrete block" stand-ups so it's properly embedded) and I ordered a high-MPA mix, just for good measure.
I'm a "home body" and a "creature of habit" so my normal strategy is to figure out my _real_ requirements, focus on quality then keep it for a long time (adjusting as required). Other people have other strategies that work for them, but that's always been mine.
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I went with a similar setup in my garage and stability was my biggest concern too. I poured new pads with thicker Concrete around the lift points and added some reinforced mesh. Haven’t had a single issue since, even with my heavier coupe. If your floor isn’t super level, you might want to grind it down a bit or use leveling compound before setting things up.
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