Recent content by Stucco

Thank you all, I truly appreciate your help! Any thoughts on if I need to open it back up to dry everything out before putting goop on it, or is that water okay?

The black is underneath. The nails were all exposed along that top edge, so good to know that I should cover them.

Yes, I think it is, but I'm pretty clueless about roofing/materials. It came in big rolls when some guys put it on.

What can I do until a longer-term solution is available, please? The roofing material blew up last night, and it's going to get very gusty for the next few days. I flipped it back down nailed down the perimeter. Wondering if some kind of goop would make sense to put on this...

Thanks all that is all helpful. It is just for the gate opener pad - the posts and gate are separate and already done. I've been opening it by hand but it's a little heavy and not practical for my wife to do very often. Maybe I should also say, by "form" I mean a 2x6 square that sits around...

Now... with something like that do I need to put re-bar in there? I wouldn't know how to do that, but maybe it's not too hard. And if it's unnecessary, even better. Again, it's a sliding gate opener that's pulling a (maybe) 850lb gate.

Thanks all. I'm about 100 miles north of Readhead. You'd know the town with "rose" at the end of the name... (maybe that ought to just be "western" CO). I'm trying to be search-unfriendly. I just found something for frost depth, not that I really know what it means: 26 INCHES FOOTER/STEMWALL...

This isn't exactly the garage, but I'm putting in a sliding gate opener and wonder if you all have suggestions on the concrete base. The base needs to be 12" x 28" x 28". I'll probably go 32" deep - which is the part I'm wondering about: Do I need to do anything special to make sure there...

I had not seen that thread - thank you. Didn't realize you could use turnbuckles, and that's a good discussion about maybe "pulling" safely. But it still scares me... I'm partly tempted to just brace it and deal with any straightening later (if that ever happens)

Good thing I covered her up in a modest dress... Main reasons for not wanting to pull are: Since the garage is partly attached to the house, I can't get around the edges on the outside like I've seen others do (and I'm not sure how strong I can rig it up inside the garage) I don't have...

So I'm wondering if this picture is more or less the idea: I bend the boards and somebody (that's my wife in this picture) secures the 2x4 so it pushes on the garage? I'm guessing 2 or 3 2x4's might do for a garage that's 10 feet across.

Good question - I'm in Southwest Colorado (very small town so I'm hesitant to put that specifically in the profile because I'm weird about the internet... but I'll PM anybody who wants to know). Relatively dry climate, but the ground is clay and there's lots of heaving and settling around here...

Hi, my new-to-me garage is leaning a bit, and I assume it's better to fix this sooner than later. You'll see that it's moved only slightly, but I think it's still moving and I want to stop any progress. If I get it back to square before bracing, I'd like to start by "pushing" it back (as...