Browse Forums Paving & Concreting Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 2Feb 25, 2020 6:35 pm Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 4Feb 25, 2020 6:49 pm Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 6Feb 25, 2020 11:50 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 7Feb 26, 2020 8:25 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 9Mar 12, 2020 1:33 pm structuralBIMGuy chippy Thanks for the inputs guys. The builder did poured the concrete driveway again. Now there is another issue. When they lowered the soakwell to prevent rain/storm water flowing into garage and paved the area later, it has become a crater in front of garage. I have attached few pics as well. Kindly advice on this. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 10Mar 12, 2020 2:08 pm It looks like they have set the height of the drain a bit low, although it's impossible to tell exactly from the photos. With paving you are looking for around 20mm of fall per metre. Your garage floor and the porch level will normally be the same height @-1 course from slab height and you needed to fall from there to your drain. Your door is further from the drain than the garage so it may end up being slightly less fall back to the door or slightly steeper back to the garage but it shouldn't be overly noticeable. The other factor is then marrying that into the concrete driveway. It looks like the drain is a bit low and then the paving doesn't seem to grade evenly to the drain. It looks like it takes a dip down into the drain as it gets close. Maybe the pavers didn't want to remove all the dirt to get the grades right so have just worked with what is there. It certainly doesn't look that good although it's a little hard tell from the photos Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 11Mar 12, 2020 2:13 pm vikram3151981 Actually just looking at your plan the top of the drain should be 64mm below the height of the garage hardstand. If it's lower than this then they have installed it to low. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Cracks in concrete driveway 12Mar 12, 2020 2:27 pm Thanks for the reply Chippy I have already written to builder with the photographs but no reply yet. Can it be considered as a defect? Because it is quite low (even lower than it appears in photograph) so there are fair chances of damage to car going over it. It sounds like you have a crack in your garage where the wall meets the ceiling, along the shadow line on the… 0 17878 Do you have a scope of works? If have texture on wall now, the patch will show through The standard for repair of texture is to patch, re-texture corner to corner,… 5 7302 |