Haus
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I recently bought a house with a detached 2-car garage 18' wide x 19' deep. I need to use it as a shop but the floor is REALLY tilted. I knew it was bad, but I just put a laser level to it and found that it was sloping 9.25" from one side of the 16' garage door opening to the other! And it is sloping 7" front to rear.
I believe some previous owner poured a slab just for parking and sloped it to shed water really well. In addition, I guess the soil was not compacted enough and there was been a little subsidence. Then another owner built a garage on the slab and actually tilted the entire building about 5" over 8 foot of height to make the garage door fit squarely to the sloping slab.
Just what the heck do I do?
Pour more concrete to level and stop it short of the door and step up?
Build a wood floor over the slab with long wedge shaped joists?
This would allow me to run power to the middle of the room and it maybe a lot easier on the feet. And warmer. But it means no one could use it to park a car inside.
It's just nuts, I can't even stand in there. I can't start over from the ground up, because the current setback would make me move it 4' farther away from the property line.
I believe some previous owner poured a slab just for parking and sloped it to shed water really well. In addition, I guess the soil was not compacted enough and there was been a little subsidence. Then another owner built a garage on the slab and actually tilted the entire building about 5" over 8 foot of height to make the garage door fit squarely to the sloping slab.
Just what the heck do I do?
Pour more concrete to level and stop it short of the door and step up?
Build a wood floor over the slab with long wedge shaped joists?
This would allow me to run power to the middle of the room and it maybe a lot easier on the feet. And warmer. But it means no one could use it to park a car inside.
It's just nuts, I can't even stand in there. I can't start over from the ground up, because the current setback would make me move it 4' farther away from the property line.