Recent content by sonofagunk

thanks for your reply, but the question is about slope, not whether I should have a 7.5" garage or not. The very first line of my post says "let's assume we CAN'T change this" in regards to changing the height of the garage floor

yea, there is a picture 3 comments above your post and there is a post about it being a straight driveway is above that. Just too many comments off topic when all I cared about was slope and if people thought having an up then down slope was reasonable

No, the rest of the house is already there. Just changing the floor of the garage (and the driveway to match)

Currently the house has a driveway that would come up to about 2' BELOW the top of the garage door. So 5' down, puts me 4" below the side walk. Not as crazy as it sounds because there is a full basement under the rest of the house and just lowering the garage floor to be level with that. For...

basically, it is not this way yet, but it is going to be, and losing a foot off the height of the garage is not an option (4" below already and enough of a pitch to drain away from the house) As for draining to the side, I was thinking of having it pitched so it drained left to right, but not...

it is straight, but because of other work, it has to be totally torn up and I have a clean site. 45' x 22' x 2" would give me 165 cu ft heading towards the house in a heavy down poor

I cant upload images at work, but it is just a basic driveway from the street to an attached garage that is common all over the USA. It is straight, 45' long (22' wide) , and has 4" drop towards the house. Nothing special. Just want to not have 990 sqft of blacktop draining towards the house

Yes, I know what water does, but that is what drains are for. I am not sloping towards the house, the slope is already there and nothing can be done about it, the garage is attached. No diagram, but basically all that is needed is that the height of the sidewalk is 46' 4.7" above ground zero...

I am doing work on the house, and it looks like I have a 4" drop over 45' INTO my garage (let's assume we CAN'T change this). This is a less than a 1% drop and into the garage. So basically water will have trouble draining and when it does, it goes in the wrong direction. I am trying to find...

If you are worried about security, I would have the door removed too

I leave for work too early to open up the attached garage's door without waking the kids (their room is above it). Don't care how "quiet" a door opener claims to be, it will still wake my kids.

more news. Actually convinced the wife to do this and have been talking to architects and builders. Started with in town architects, but since we live in an expensive town, they had estimates of $125K-$200K+. Decided to talk to some builders since this is more of an engineering job than a...

Well I have a little more news. Just had someone measure and the floor of my current garage is 5 feet 3 inches above the current sidewalk. The garage has 12 feet 11 inches ceilings. So that puts the total above 18 feet (9 feet for the livingroom, 1 ft for floor joists, 8 ft for garage). So I...

I installed the surge protectors and the doors still do not work :p Ok, I got new ones since the insurance company was paying (and it was cheaper for them for me to get 2 new ones and install myself instead of calling someone to come and fix them). The units are VERY different. The rail on...

might end up replacing the entore thing, but I checked the power. Not yet, but the manual didn't seem to mention anything