Advice needed - costs on levelling a steep drive

bobhawke

27col wrote: »

How can you possibly level the drive. The top end at the garage and the lower end at the kerb will still be at the same levels. There is a slope because that is the only way the join the two levels together unless you use steps. Which are not very practical for a car.

That is only if you want to stick your car in the garage. Level the driveway, stick a retaining wall all round and put steps / ramp up to front door and a path leading to front of garage or have a door leading in to garage from the house and don't bother using the big door.

ormus

olias

bobhawke wrote: »

That is only if you want to stick your car in the garage. Level the driveway, stick a retaining wall all round and put steps / ramp up to front door

That's the only way to do it, but I would then convert the garage. It would look ridiculous to have a normal garage door which was unuseable by a car, and would be commented on by every prospective future buyer, and probably put most of them off.

Olias

vax2002

a few good downpours and the whole hill could go, it would not be the first

miss_sixties22

Thanks to those who posted helpful comments. No, it was not a windup - I genuinly wanted to know whether it was possible. It seems like it could be, but hard work and expensive! The garden is a problem, I agree, but my husband seems to think he could terrace it and put levels in (my parents have a similar steep garden and it never bothered us).

Think I'll just have to persuade him that I really don't think it's a good idea to put an offer in!
Thanks again.

samtheman1k

Surely steps are going to harder with a pram than a slope?

Cash-Cow_3

How is surface water from drive being collected?

Russe11

OP a women imo

27col

Well, speaking for myself, I certainly would not buy a house with a garage that had the drive modified so as to make it impossible to get a car in the garage. To do that is just being perverse.

bobhawke

Doesn't look like you could get a car in that garage and open the door to get out. Maybe park it there if you had a sun roof :rotfl: