The approved building permit site plan topo shows the elevation of the garage floor to be level with the centerline of the street. And the street to be level, but it??s a 13% grade. Maybe an architect??s ??office topo?. The driveway will have to be 25% grade. Try getting a low clearance sports car or tall SUV into that.?ÿ
Somebody should have a chat with the inspector on that job...
...or maybe they did, and it involved a transfer of funds.
@jim-frame Eugene OR. It??s a very tight hillside development. The street is an easement owned by the HOA. The first potential owner bailed during its construction because he saw the garage floor grade was f??d up. It stood for a year 1/4 complete and the walls a joists were soaked in Oregon rain.?ÿ
All you have to do is back it in.?ÿ Sort of like this.
the crazy driveway will have to be a ??feature?? not a bug.?ÿ
The obvious answer is to cut down the street as needed.?ÿ The result would be a roller coaster banked to the left and then to the right as needed.?ÿ As long as ice never forms, it would be an entertaining drive with built in speed-bumps.?ÿ Ice would make it insanely fun.................until.......................someone's bedroom has your car in it.
@holy-cow that's a cross between a Ron Beer and a Citroen, I think. Those French rednecks keeping it fancy
The driveway will have to be 25% grade.
Another term for that driveway is "funnel."
@jim-frame Any vertical curve in that tiny distance would be sharp enough to cut slice paper?ÿ
Obviously more than one person dropped the ball! ?ÿI hope whoever was responsible for the topographical information has good E.O. Insurance.
....even the piping connected to the gutter downspout is going up hill according to the photo of the finished garage.
You've never drank Falstaff?
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Griesadieck Malt Liquor will do the same thing, only faster:
Log flume!!!
For 17 years I lived in a house that had a driveway with no observable slope -- it was pretty much dead flat from the garage to the curb.?ÿ Any significant rain event caused water to back up halfway across the garage floor.?ÿ It was a real nuisance, but nothing like what the owner of the pictured house is going to experience.
