Don't build your driveway like this.

[bobforman]

Hope this photo displays. Supposedly this isn't Photoshopped.

 

[MartyO]

Lawdy!

 

[koditten]

How can that even be leagal? Insurence would be a killer. Do you think there is a chance someone could injure themselves by tripping and slipping. I have seen this photo before and always considered it BS.

 

[ElectroLight]

A friend of mine rented a room in a house around here that had the same F'ed up driveway issue, damn thing was hard to walk up!. My buddy was surveying at the time and swore up and down that it was a builder screw up. The lot grade was like 8' too high. He found out that the house sat un-finished for years in the late 70's because the builder went **** up. I guess this is another case of the inspector getting paid to look the other way?

 

[Test Tech]

Looks like a good arrangement for a guy with a Jeep Especially if you want to avoid the in laws!

 

[cowboy73]

The kids could go sledding in the driveway!!!

 

[Professur]

A friend of mine in Atlanta has about that angle, but with a bend near the top. Most people visiting him just park in the street.

 

[tatra]

this has been on here before and had a better explanation than i can remember at the moment............

 

[1320stang]

Shoulda went with a basement garage...

 

[rockchucker]

Edit: Beat me to it! ^


Should have just put a Basement Garage in. What the hell is wrong with people? lol

 

[ptschram]

Looks like a good arrangement for a guy with a Jeep Especially if you want to avoid the in laws!

A really, really, really short wheelbase Jeep!

 

[Jagmandave]

My brother's fairly new house (1-2 years old?) in Colorado Springs is just like that.

 

[skeletonizer]

A really, really, really short wheelbase Jeep!

No kidding. I have a ZJ and I think approach and center would be OK but it would drag like a ***** on departure.

I would have a legit pitch to the wife for going with bigger tires though.

 

[Zrexxer]

That would be a ***** backing my trailer up that to unload my compressor!

 

[Skysurfer]

The odd thing is that any vehicle with enough ground clearance to get over the crest would be too tall to fit in the garage.

 

[930dreamer]

Bring in the bulldozer, that's crazy stuff.

 

[rickairmedic]

That has to be photo shopped . Even if you could manage to get a normal car into the driveway you would never get it into the garage . You would bottom out going into the garage at about mid door if you got that far .


Rick

 

[gabedad]

sorry - I call photoshopped

 

[Stuart in MN]

That photo first went around the internet probably 8 or 10 years ago; a person on another forum said he had seen it in person, if I remember correctly he was an engineer or construction manager for the housing development. He said the angle of the photo made it look worse than it really was, but the driveways were still way too steep. They ended up tearing it all out and regrading the street higher so the driveways would work.

 

[jamesemery728]

You would need a safety harness to go down and get the mail.

 

[Krash Kadillak]

Funny...
I saw the thread title and knew exactly what driveway you were talking about. Saw the photo not too long ago somewhere else.....

 

[Falcon67]

Google is your spy friend
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...oid=6BZb_FJ-9YHO4oELh1jOuw&cbp=12,358.77,,0,5

This is apparently real:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ask3y/2684673761/

 

[p_mori7]

the pic has been doctored. actual pic from streetview below. driveways are steep, but not that steep.

EDIT: Falcon beat me to it !

 

[Jason641]

A few miles from my house there are about 6 houses that were built like that a couple years ago. I have a lifted F-250 and my hitch scraped the ground when I tried going up the driveway. They sat empty for a while, then someone finally came in and tore out the driveways and built a retaining wall along the edge of the road in front of the houses. They built a shared driveway for all the houses that goes through the back yards then around to the front of each house where the garage is. Look up the address on google maps and go to the satellite view to see what I am talking about: 722 Spring St villa rica, ga 30180 you can kind of make out the retaining wall from the shadow it is casting between the front of the house and the street.

I can't believe someone in their right mind would even pour something like that

 

[Notwerk]

The kids could go sledding in the driveway!!!

Straight into traffic!

 

[2manytoyz]

sorry - I call photoshopped

X2 Ain't buying it.

 

[Big Gus]

I work with a guy who bought a spec home with a driveway exactly like that. His driveway is quite steep.

I've yet to figure out why anyone looking to buy new construction would buy a spec home, as opposed to getting what you really want, plus most likely higher quality craftsmanship, but that topic is for another thread.

 

[JasonTX]

I saw some driveways almost as steep in Camp Verde AZ. Made no sense.

 

[Zeke]

Looking at the mound of dirt in the foreground as a reference, it looks real enough.

BUT, consider that the concrete would have to have been shotcrete or gunite. No one I have ever seen got wet concrete to stay on a slope like that.

So, altered.

 

[rwhite692]

P_mori7 has it right....The photo has been compressed horizontally to make it appear much steeper than actual.

 

[kv501]

Can't believe it's even being debated as to whether or not this is real. *facepalm*

 

[eldirector]

Googled up another thread with a good explanation:
http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?25606-Maximum-residential-driveway-slope

Seems that the sidewalk was eventually moved closer to the street, and the front yards (and driveways) regraded.

Here is the address if you want to do a Google Street View:
5028 New Bridge Road, Fayetteville, AR 72704

Compare the sidewalks between the picture and Google, and you can see how it was regraded.

 

[Zrexxer]

BUT, consider that the concrete would have to have been shotcrete or gunite. No one I have ever seen got wet concrete to stay on a slope like that.

So, altered.

Regardless of whether the pic is fake, we've done rip-rap under and adjacent to bridge abutments with slopes that were way steeper than even the 'shopped picture. Regular Portland cement concrete, low slump, wire mesh reinforced.

 

[GarageXXI]

I would bet that the residential lots and the road were not designed by the same people. You can see in the first picture that the road has not been paved so my guess would be that this was built during the boom years of residential construction, where the streets were playing catch up with the development.

Also you can't see many tire marks on the google street view picture, so you can tell they don't park in the driveway.

 

[Air_Cooled_Nut]

Part of my requirements for a house include NO SLOPED DRIVEWAY! I have lowered vehicles...

 

[Zeke]

Regardless of whether the pic is fake, we've done rip-rap under and adjacent to bridge abutments with slopes that were way steeper than even the 'shopped picture. Regular Portland cement concrete, low slump, wire mesh reinforced.

What is rip rap and how did you trowel it? How did you place it? Most pumpers don't like low slope.

 

[Orangestang]

I can bet parking on that driveway would be hell on an automatic trans/park pawl, it would be a real ***** getting out of park. Just imagine a manual trans car getting away from you. Oops forgot to leave it in gear and set the brake.

 

[slickgt1]

holy ****. i would **** myself every time it rained.

 

[gatewaysysop]

the pic has been doctored. actual pic from streetview below. driveways are steep, but not that steep.

EDIT: Falcon beat me to it !

Am I the only person that finds it funny that it looks like it says "Newb" road in the streetview pic?

 

[purpony]

LMAO.... i could beleive it.. you should see some of the houses they build around ct up on hills with a driveway straight up.

There is NO WAY my car would ever make it up that angle... way to low