Concrete Driveway Higher Than Garage Floor

Normally the garage floor is a 1 2 or so higher than the driveway.

Concrete driveway higher than garage floor.

Is it feasible to cut out a 1 or so of the driveway next to the garage and redo it so it s lower. To make it worse the. Almost every garage 2 car width in our neighborhood has its cement pad at a level that s significantly higher than the asphalt of the driveway. Use 16mm 3 4 round bar and drill 300mm 12 into existing garage slab at 900mm 3 intervals 100mm 4 down from top of concrete cut the round bars into 600mm 2 lengths grease with any kind of grease half the length of rod and then whooops beer time have a coldy then clean out holes and push greasy end into holes.

For example if your garage floor is 100 away from the street for water to flow to the street the garage floor must be at least 10 higher than the edge of the road or street that you are paving to. Increasing the thickness from 4 inches to 5 inches will add approximately 20 to your concrete cost but will also boost your driveway s load carrying capacity nearly 50. The dip is located very close to the garage entrance. The driveway slopes down from my garage to the street.

The straight line gaps between the slabs has enlarged and some cracks are as wide as 2 inches. Our garage floor is also lower than the approaching driveway. My concrete driveway has eight large slabs. I guess rainwater hasn t been an issue or you would have noticed it sooner.

Place concrete at a minimum thickness of 4 inches. Probably the most important aspect of any asphalt paver or concrete driveway. Thickness is the major factor even more than the strength of the concrete in determining a driveway s structural capacity. How to fix a gap between the driveway garage.

I want to fill it in because it catches leaves dirt etc any suggestions of what to use to fill gap. Your garage floor is usually part of. In our case the asphalt runs up to the garage pad but aims at a level at least 3 shy of the floor surface of the cement pad. It works for us but there is no guarantee if a really hard rain occurs.

Between my garage floor my driveway there is a gap of almost an inch wide probably an inch deep. When we went from a gravel to a concrete driveway to divert rainwater we added a dip about 2 deep for the width of the driveway and about 10 long.