A deliberately separated model. Floor kind (dirt, gravel, slab) is what fills the inside of the shell and the three are mutually exclusive. A frost footer is a separate toggle that can sit with any floor. Approaches are measured per garage door; porch pads are per porch.
Also called: concrete slab · gravel floor · dirt floor · frost footer · concrete approach · apron
- 1The walk-on floor is inset inside the skirt so dirt or gravel never leaks outside the walls; a poured slab may still grow an apron when asked.
- 2A slab's top sits its thickness ABOVE grade, so a 4in slab reads as 4in of finish floor rather than being buried.
- 3Thickness is parsed from the catalogue row's own name (a 6in pad vs a 4in pad).
- 4Approach measures each garage door's width plus two feet by a 12ft depth, and falls back to a default 16x12 pad on the front when no door exists yet.
- 5Porch pads target the additions that have a slab flag, with the catalogue line kept in lockstep with the per-porch toggles.
- 6A catalogue slab wins over the legacy package slab so the pad is poured once and priced from the catalogue.
In a post-frame building the posts carry the load either way, so what you walk on is a separate decision from what holds the building down — but treating them as one thing meant a builder could not sell a gravel-floor machine shed with a frost ring, or price a slab without implying a different foundation. Floor and foundation are now chosen and priced independently, and the combinations shops actually sell stop being special cases somebody has to work around.
- Floor, foundation and footer conflated into one option.
- Approach and porch concrete quoted by hand.
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