04-23-2025, 03:14 PM
BTW, because the project manager for the general contractor said the tuck-under garage floor must be slab on grade, yesterday I went out and dug up the dirt in the middle of the area to be filled in the diagram above, right next to the edge of “the slab” that was sticking above ground, just to see how thick this slab was.
I got down over 12” and was still seeing a vertical wall or edge of intact, crack-free concrete. At that point, I ran into a horizontal layer of concrete (a sunken part of the old driveway into the garage? Or a concrete apron?) that stuck out perpendicular to the slab edge and prevented me from digging deeper.
12+ inches (and who knows who much more) in thickness is a hell of a “slab” for 1940s. But the project manager doesn’t care.
This kind of house reno is just pissing me off.
I got down over 12” and was still seeing a vertical wall or edge of intact, crack-free concrete. At that point, I ran into a horizontal layer of concrete (a sunken part of the old driveway into the garage? Or a concrete apron?) that stuck out perpendicular to the slab edge and prevented me from digging deeper.
12+ inches (and who knows who much more) in thickness is a hell of a “slab” for 1940s. But the project manager doesn’t care.
This kind of house reno is just pissing me off.