Garage Cinder Blocks shifted

[welder4956]

We didn’t know it was like that until AFTER we had the garage epoxyed. We had the back of garage loaded with cabinets etc, covered with tarps while the garage was being finished. So concrete was completed as well as the epoxy. You couldn’t tell from the inside of garage that this even happened.

No doubt the contractor saw it before the new concrete was poured. It would have been obvious.

 

[ATC]

Ten dollars to a donut says the wall was pushed during the removal of the old floor.Who did that?

Yup. If they removed the old concrete with a skid steer or mini-skid....that's what did it.

 

[acer66]

That *****

Yup. If they removed the old concrete with a skid steer or mini-skid....that's what did it.

Parts of my house has similar walls, unfilled cinderblocks on a thin layer of mud which sits most of the time on grade.

Onetime I wanted to move some framing and used the cinderblock wall as a lever for my crow bar and instead of the framing moving the cinderblocks did.

 

[firebirdparts]

Is this sarcasm?

Martin

Not at all. This is one situation where you simply can't go back without destroying everything in that offending area, which is obviously under the building. it's not terrible, it's a light structure, and of course concrete is hard, so it's really not a big deal to make the structure "work". I just meant it's going to be unusually constrained to do so.

I like the suggestion of getting 4" blocks in there. That is clever. I might prefer to get a concrete stem wall in there somehow, lot of sledgehammering. Maybe the building has to be temporarily supported. Pouring that with the floor inplace would require you to leave a ledge outboard, but you can flash over it. That seems easiest to me.

Main thing is fix it and enjoy life. It's ugly but you'll prevail.

 

[4 FN 27]

Yup. If they removed the old concrete with a skid steer or mini-skid....that's what did it.

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This!!!

 

[brownbagg]

why wasnt the cmu filled with concrete

its common to fill the cmu with concrete to sill plate elevation for anchor bolts

 

[acer66]

why wasnt the cmu filled with concrete

At least around here that was standard practice for a long time.