Ideas for hillside sloped spot for garage
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inphx
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I had similar challenge with my house concept was to be sure house foundation was on firm load bearing land. And retaining walls. Technically the left footer should be drawn to the left under the load
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Dave, how steep is the slope?
A friend built his shop into a hill, as a 2 story.
Enter the top floor on one side, drive around, and down the hill to get in the other.
Double the shop space for a given footprint.
I have considered that. My drive in access would be on higher level though.
I considered finding steel runners to support vehicle from foundation walls.
John in OH
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Just a heads up ..... “To be forewarned is to be fore armed”
I don’t really know much about stem walls with backfill etc., but I do recall (but very sketchy on the details) that several years ago a guy here on GJ had a similar site where he built a garage on a slope. To get the front of the garage level with his driveway, he had to build a 6-7 foot or so high block foundation wall at the rear, with foundation side walls tapering up to driveway elevation …. not too unlike your apparent situation.
He had the block walls built, then back-filled and compacted the inside area of the foundation, poured the slab and built a very attractive garage. Then, somewhere in this process and before it was all done, the rear foundation wall buckled out, floor tilted, and it all went to hell.
Big ******* contest with builder, city, etc.,etc. All went on for months. I wish I had kept a link to the thread …. but it should be in the Garage Gallery section somewhere, IIRC.
Bottom line lesson to be learned …. If you go this route, make sure the foundation, foundation deadmen, and backfilling steps are designed and executed properly or you could have a disaster!!
I don’t really know much about stem walls with backfill etc., but I do recall (but very sketchy on the details) that several years ago a guy here on GJ had a similar site where he built a garage on a slope. To get the front of the garage level with his driveway, he had to build a 6-7 foot or so high block foundation wall at the rear, with foundation side walls tapering up to driveway elevation …. not too unlike your apparent situation.
He had the block walls built, then back-filled and compacted the inside area of the foundation, poured the slab and built a very attractive garage. Then, somewhere in this process and before it was all done, the rear foundation wall buckled out, floor tilted, and it all went to hell.
Big ******* contest with builder, city, etc.,etc. All went on for months. I wish I had kept a link to the thread …. but it should be in the Garage Gallery section somewhere, IIRC.
Bottom line lesson to be learned …. If you go this route, make sure the foundation, foundation deadmen, and backfilling steps are designed and executed properly or you could have a disaster!!
bczygan
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Before you examine the worst case scenario, let's look at what functions you want to accommodate.
What are they?
And what does your lot look like?
Bill (Designer)