Now how would you fix this screw up??
Now how would you fix this screw up??
(OP)
I guess someone made a mistake on the elevation. This is pretty funny. I guess you can just sell the house and include a hummer with the house. This isn't my project btw.
















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"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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If the garage footings are deep enough (below frost depth), maybe repour the floor 3 feet lower, provide some stairs & redo driveway to match.
To avoid the problem shown, I recall some trilevel homes in Wisconsin having garages dug into the hillside. The driveways always drifted over with snow in winter.
COEngineeer please update on future developments.
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You'll need swimming pool specialists to finish the concrete.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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And here's the garage, fully accessorized with matching his & her winches..."
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Here ... it looks like the garages were built on several feet of fill.
I think I can hear an echo of some jackass braying "Just Do It!", and his long- suffering minions muttering "Yes-Sir!".
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Dik
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Elevation views were obviously missing... again.
BigInch
-born in the trenches.
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why, oh why, did anyone build it ???
it looks to me to be poured in situ ... that must have been interesting (or is the curved edge cut into pre-formed slabs ?)
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...because contractors do stupid things figuring no one will notice.
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There is no pride of workmanship in construction anymore.
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More likely in this case, the builders (and concrete truck driver and everyone else involved) did question the design- and got an "I'm the engineer do it my way" response or maybe a total lack of response somewhere back up the chain of command. Not everyone can be reasoned with.
When a construction crew runs into some kind of obvious goof, they have several options. They can get on the phone and try to get a quick clarification. With some engineers and some owners, this is simply impossible, nothing gets done except in writing and in two or three weeks time, maybe never. The crew can use their own judgment and fix it however they think it needs to be (and then get a "stupid contractor" thread going). Or, they can just delay work indefinitely while pending some kind of resolution, and then be charged liquidated damages for delaying the job, as well as incurring additional expenses themselves. It's not always a good situation.
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BigInch
-born in the trenches.
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JStephen - with all due respect, it was probably ""I'm the developer do it my way". After the site/civil plans are done, I doubt the engineer is ever called upon again.
Where I live, there is a lot of on-going residential construction; everything is done by subcontracting. Builders/developers don't do any actual construction; they're just brokers. The concrete guy probably asked the developer's foreman what to do and he was probably told "just put it in if you want to get paid."