Leveled

It's still home improvement season around here, lots of projects in the pipe!

When we bought our house one of the things that cropped up on our inspection was a seriously out of kilter garage floor.  Anytime our cars were wet we'd end up with lakes at the wrong end of the garage since the floor tilted toward the house instead of toward the driveway.

We've been saving up to get it fixed, thinking that 2 of the 4 slabs in the garage would need to be replaced.  It turned out that even though two slabs were cracked they did not need to be replaced.  Because of that the bids came in much lower than we expected, whoo hoo!  That NEVER happens with home repairs!

Giant cracked, tilted slab #1, AKA Lake Superior most of the winter.

If you've got sharp eyes you'll be able to make out a thin line in the foundation on L side of photo under the wood boards, that's where the slab should be.

Dramatic before and after of the other corner.

 The slab should be sitting right about where the drywall stops, about 8" from where it is now.  That spot in the middle where all the slabs meet was a mess, we'd always stub our toe on the slab on the right (where the tiller is parked in the photo) which was the only slab that was at the level it was supposed to be.

TA DA!  Level floor (tilting slightly toward the garage door as it should).

Previous owners had also misrouted a downspout so we had a washout under some sidewalk and our front stoop, also fixed up during this project.  Labor on our part?  Paying the bill and cleaning out the garage.  Much easier than laying sod.