The park break won’t hold on that drive way, wait until its wet or covered with ice. You will need a four wheel drive just to get in to the garage if you don’t high center half way in. What bone head architect thought this was a good idea? Some little kid will get killed there.
ronthewolfman
not just the architects issue, it’s the site engineer and site superintendents job to relay bad designs before construction begins. But as is all to typical in the construction game it’s just hurray for me and fuck you, seems to be the main reasoning for these kinds of decisions being made again and again.
Valinor
This is where you need to excavate a basement garage.
Biff
I was looking at this wondering how anybody could be so dumb as to do this, however, I do think Valinor has the perfect solution. Dig out under the garage and create a new basement level garage with the above current garage being converted to more first floor living space.
ronthewolfman
Nice try Biff, but you make those kind of course corrections before you build, not after. That kind of stem wall-footer is not designed to be after market retro fitted, not that it can’t be done, it is just way out consideration considering the costs and time lines involved.
Biff
Of course you should plan for that before the fact ronthewolfman, however, at this point it’s the best solution to end up with a working garage. Only other solutions would be to convert the garage to living space and then end up with no garage, or rip down the garage and end up with no garage. Both of which would lower the home value and cost more in the end then the first solution.
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The park break won’t hold on that drive way, wait until its wet or covered with ice. You will need a four wheel drive just to get in to the garage if you don’t high center half way in. What bone head architect thought this was a good idea? Some little kid will get killed there.
not just the architects issue, it’s the site engineer and site superintendents job to relay bad designs before construction begins. But as is all to typical in the construction game it’s just hurray for me and fuck you, seems to be the main reasoning for these kinds of decisions being made again and again.
This is where you need to excavate a basement garage.
I was looking at this wondering how anybody could be so dumb as to do this, however, I do think Valinor has the perfect solution. Dig out under the garage and create a new basement level garage with the above current garage being converted to more first floor living space.
Nice try Biff, but you make those kind of course corrections before you build, not after. That kind of stem wall-footer is not designed to be after market retro fitted, not that it can’t be done, it is just way out consideration considering the costs and time lines involved.
Of course you should plan for that before the fact ronthewolfman, however, at this point it’s the best solution to end up with a working garage. Only other solutions would be to convert the garage to living space and then end up with no garage, or rip down the garage and end up with no garage. Both of which would lower the home value and cost more in the end then the first solution.
i have seen many crazy things do to someones greed, but this takes the prize. the lucky guy will be mad for a long time…
Look closely and you’ll see that it’s Photoshopped even to the unaided eye.