Sloping garage floor !!!!
Discussion
Last year we bought a house, next to it is a double garage and barn. The barn cannot be used for workshop/car purposes. But the garage has scope.
Problem is the floor has a 20 degree slope internally. Which can make working on the cars difficult and precarious.
I've got plenty of head height, as the garage is double height. At the rear of the garage is a lean to workshop, the same width as the garage, but accessed through at opening the width of a car with a lintel overhead, but the little is low, which I currently duck under.
If I levelled the floor out, then I'd have to raise the lintle in the end of the wall, to gain access to the workshop.
Anyone got any clever ideas, or is there a scissor lift type piece of kit I can raise a car on, but could be installed on the slopped floor, but lifts the car flat?
Problem is the floor has a 20 degree slope internally. Which can make working on the cars difficult and precarious.
I've got plenty of head height, as the garage is double height. At the rear of the garage is a lean to workshop, the same width as the garage, but accessed through at opening the width of a car with a lintel overhead, but the little is low, which I currently duck under.
If I levelled the floor out, then I'd have to raise the lintle in the end of the wall, to gain access to the workshop.
Anyone got any clever ideas, or is there a scissor lift type piece of kit I can raise a car on, but could be installed on the slopped floor, but lifts the car flat?
That slope does not look like 20 degrees in the pics but that could be due to the angle of the camera. What length is the floor and how much is the fall end-to-end? As in the previous post, is the slope downwards from the door?
The first thought that occurs to me is that you could lower the floor at the high end and if that's at the door you could use short ramps to bring the cars in. However that may all go out the window when we get the details above.
Your garage seems to be a well-built structure so you should ask yourself is there a reason for the sloped floor. Are there any drainage or flooding problems in the area?
The first thought that occurs to me is that you could lower the floor at the high end and if that's at the door you could use short ramps to bring the cars in. However that may all go out the window when we get the details above.
Your garage seems to be a well-built structure so you should ask yourself is there a reason for the sloped floor. Are there any drainage or flooding problems in the area?
Ok, exaggeration, worked it out as between 8-10 degree slope.
There's a river behind the garage, the water from the drives goes into a surface drain that runs down the wall alongside the red junior. It then goes under the end wall between the garage and Worksop, then still in a surface drain, out of the back workshop wll, into a sub drain and into the river.
The building isn't great, lots of signs of subsidence, and the roof trusses haven't been tied into the walls, so the wall on the workshop is bowing under roof load. So it will need work.
There's a river behind the garage, the water from the drives goes into a surface drain that runs down the wall alongside the red junior. It then goes under the end wall between the garage and Worksop, then still in a surface drain, out of the back workshop wll, into a sub drain and into the river.
The building isn't great, lots of signs of subsidence, and the roof trusses haven't been tied into the walls, so the wall on the workshop is bowing under roof load. So it will need work.
Edited by jamieandthemagic on Wednesday 1st January 20:44
Barkychoc said:
Why not just level it apart from the last 2 feet or so - then you give yourself a little step down to the current level to go into the rear lean to workshop..
that seems the most logical - but probably the most expensive. As the garage is just the length of the cars & drops about 400mm. but the opening at the end is 5foot high - so I currently duck under to get into the workshop. If I levelled it without raising the lintle & increasing the height (expensive), then I would probably end up with a 3-3.5foot high gap to crawl through to get to the workshop.jamieandthemagic said:
that seems the most logical - but probably the most expensive. As the garage is just the length of the cars & drops about 400mm. but the opening at the end is 5foot high - so I currently duck under to get into the workshop. If I levelled it without raising the lintle & increasing the height (expensive), then I would probably end up with a 3-3.5foot high gap to crawl through to get to the workshop.
Then create two level concrete 'pads' for the cars to sit on and keep the bit behind the pillar toward the workshop as original. That will create a walkway to access your workshop whilst still keeping the cars level.Its not ideal - but it's cost effective. It creates a nice 'zone' for each car too
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