Recent content by Leonard Skinnard

Rinny Tin Tin - Thanks again for your input. I was doing some further checking tonight and it appears that there is indeed a negative slope about 8 to 10" out from my garage door. The further I get into this it seems that the problem may be a combination of that slope allowing water to seep...

I'm almost certain that the water is not getting blown under the door - it's a fairly dead area as far as any wind or breezes go, especially toward the inside of the garage. As far as the garage being in a low area - with the naked eye it seems that the garage floor is on roughly the same plane...

The lawn is on roughly the same level as the garage floor. I'm going to sandbag the door area and either wait for more rain (more due this weekend) or just re-enact it with a hose to see if the source is strictly around the door area or if it's also coming inside from around the...

Thanks for the response. The two times the water has gotten in the garage it has been so wet both inside and outside that it's been difficult to really tell where the source is. I guess I'll have to test it out further to verify if the source is from the front door area, around the...

I bought a house 1-1/2 yrs ago with a detached 2-car garage. I've had intentions of turning the garage into my "man cave" for my occasional poker games, but that plan has stalled. A year ago during a heavy rainstorm I opened the garage to find that water had leaked into the garage and had...