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heroman
Citizen
Username: Heroman
Post Number: 117
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 11:12 am: | 
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My garage (full of junk and no car) is now sinking, well about a couple inches to the right. The door is scraping and more difficult to open. The concrete slab is all cracked up from the neighbors tree roots. I know people around me have had their garages fixed (jacked up with new foundations, etc.) One company worked a month on a garage. So I was wondering if anyone would mind sharing what they had to put out to have such work done, and should I just wait until it totally leans and the door will not open or is an earlier fix less costly? I've seen Vin Pat signs and Morris/Essex contracting working on garages. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1854
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 1:26 pm: |
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I've heard great things about Bob Hume for garage repair - it would certainly be worth contacting him for an estimate. |
Richard Kessler
Citizen
Username: Richiekess
Post Number: 168
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 1:45 pm: |
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We had Bob Hume do our garage, which included hoisting it off the ground, repairing some of the cement blocks the garage sits on, replacing rotted wood, sistering support beams, etc. It took about four days and cost $7500, last summer. They did not do anything to the garage floor, which needs to be replaced. |
mimosa
Citizen
Username: Mimosa
Post Number: 225
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 2:30 pm: |
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People around my neighborhood have experienced sinking garages and sinkholes due to the underground pipe that takes water from Washington Park and puts it underground, under Ridgewood Rd., along St. Lawrence Ave and across Kendal;it comes out behind Jefferson. Do you know why a garage may sink? Strange, I know, but these things make me worry a bit.
Like late last summer, I noticed that the wooden post that comes up from a small set of outdoor stairs and attaches to a little overhang roof has gradually gotten lower and become detached from the little roof. I wonder if my house is sinking. Why would it itherwise become detached after ten years?
Sorry for hijacking your thread...sinking building stories just awaken this worry for me. |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 12250
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 3:37 pm: |
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Take a look at the bottom of the post. The most likely explanation is that it is rotted, like the sill plates in Heroman's garage. |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4259
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 5:05 pm: |
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All houses (and garages) settle over the years. It's a very slow, almost imperceptable process, until the day you notice it's effects, Mimosa. Considering most houses in Maplewood are in the neighborhood of 100 years old, and considering a great majority of them sit on hills where the earth is constantly, slowly, moving downhill, it's not surprising that you see these effects.
Bob Hume did the exact same thing to our garage that he did to Richards, for almost the exact price, but it was some 3 or 4 years ago. I'm impressed that his price doesn't seem to have increased.
We also got an estimate from Vinpat and it was almost 50% more. |
Richard Kessler
Citizen
Username: Richiekess
Post Number: 169
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 5:26 pm: |
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For our garage, it was an issue of it having a corner lifted up by the roots of an old white ash tree. It cracked the foundation, among other things... |
cwalk
Citizen
Username: Cwalk
Post Number: 92
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2006 - 1:07 pm: |
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Bob Hume did our garage too but had to put on a brand new roof and our garage was clapboard not vinyl. He did an amazing job but the price didn't include the door. Richard did your gargage get a new roof too? |
heroman
Citizen
Username: Heroman
Post Number: 119
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 11:02 am: |
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has anyone ever gotten rid of their garage for a carport? I really don't even want the garage! We can't park in it and if we did in the winter it would be too much to shovel the entire length of driveway to get out.
eeks, that's a lot of money. |
Richard Kessler
Citizen
Username: Richiekess
Post Number: 180
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 3:09 pm: |
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The price for us did not include the roof. Our garage is also clapboard--the roof was in good condition. I do still have an issue as to what to do with the floor, as the perimeter of it is broken up. Would love to have either a new concrete floor put in or new asphalt.
I don't think that you can demolish your garage without replacing it--as per some previous posts...you may not be able to completely demolish it either, regardless of replacement. |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4285
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 3:21 pm: |
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Our garage job included the roof but not the doors. I went for slightly more expensive than average doors because they are really beautiful, carriage-door type Clopay Reserve doors. I felt it was worth the investment because they went so well with the character of our house, and the garage looks spectacular--really did wonders for the "curb appeal!"
I don't believe Bob Hume does doors. He told me he prefers to leave that to the professionals who do it every day, and he referred us to Jaeger Overhead Door. They were (and continue to be) really great! |
MeAndTheBoys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 4286
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 3:24 pm: |
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As to the "carport" question, I'd definitely check with the town on that one. There's got to be some kind of "code" for that! |
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