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Favorite Comment: Fixer Anna Rexia says, “1) That will make for a very interesting Easter egg hunt for the kids.
2) Unless you’re in top-top shape, you’re going to need a ski resort style chair lift.
3) Have fun carrying groceries to the door.
4) Have it in writing and signed by someone of authority before having that 50-inch screen, stove, refrigerator, etc, delivered.
5) Forget any parties that involve alcohol.”
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Whoa! That’s incredible.
There’s no way that’s real. I hesitate to say (the obnoxious standard) “photoshop”….but what else could it be?
No, it’s real. There’s a series of houses down the street with driveways as steep and longer than this.
This is the reason automatic vehicles have that “1″ and “2″ that hardly any of us ever use.
If you really knew anything Iggy,you’d know that you do use the 1 and 2 but just don’t stick the lil lever do hicky (LMAO) in it.
When you pull out it starts in 1 then goes to 2 then to D then usually to OD (LOL but not all are made with overdrive (OD)).Some will even pull out in 2 if the lil lever sticky do hicky (LMAO) is in 2 (helps on snowy,icy roads).When you put your sticky do hicky in say 1 thats the only gear it’ll be in,if stuck in 2 it will go from 1 to 2 and thats it (unless it’s a tranny(no not tranny like your life mate) that 2 allows it to pullout in say those snowy,icy conditions.
Ah the memories that will be made learning to ride the bike in that driveway.
It should be called (future) Soldier St.
Ilearned to ride a bike living in a house like that . it wasn’t as interesting as learning to ride my skateboard there . i only had 1 brain surgery (seriously)
Don’t forget the memories made learning how to drivea stick on that driveway
Great. Now, in addition to homeowner’s association dues, I have to buy lift tickets.
Comment win! LOL!
Now THAT was funny!
This picture makes me want to kick a developer in the teeth.
I’ll help you. I’ll put on my steel toed work boots.
I’m in too. I’ve got some pointy high heels just gimme a target.
Let’s hope he is not standing on top of the driveway. I don’t think you’ll be able to climb that in heels.
We’ll kick the stupid bastard down it. Then Lady J can FINISH HIM!!!
and bingo was his name-o
Honestly! Why didn’t someone get in touch with the developer when they saw the site?? That is ridiculous!!
I wonder how fast you will be going when backing out
of the garage ?
How fast will you have to go to get up the driveway?
That’s ridiculous!
They better have reinforced back walls in case the driver comes in at 60mph. BRAAAKEE!!! Woops. Can you imagine the ”fun” with a learner driver?
This is going to lead to some scraped tailpipes.
Heck… Can you imagine a learner with a stick shift!
Slow, and in first gear, or better yet reverse.
The real issue is that your vehicle needs a few extra inches of clearance to avoid scraping various parts of the front, back, and underside on various parts of the pavement. The kind of vehicle that can drive in eighteen inches of wet snow and not get stuck should be fine.
If you try to get up this driveway by going fast, you just might win an award, of the Darwin variety.
In this case, make that feet instead of inches.
With a 30deg slope and an abrupt edge like this, if you have a 10′ wheelbase you’ll need about 3′ of ground clearance midway between the axles, and for every foot your vehicle extends past the front or rear axle, the fender needs to be about 8″ off the ground.
I don’t think it’ll matter, once you get to the bottom, you’re back end will grind you to a hault before the front tires touch down…
I don’t think it will make it. It will get high-centered on the summit
Does the builder offer a cog railway driveway upgrade?
Those double wide garage doors make it alot easier to back in the boat.
The worst part will be how the neighborhood skaters will never forgive you for messing up their fun on the quarter pipe.
the kids will just use the driveway as a quarterpipe.
and for his next feat, Evil Knievel will park in his new garage…
Front and back bumpers will drag on the sidewalk at these driveways. Really poor planning, and if these are spec houses, I predict that they sit empty for a long time.
I’d imagine the car bottoming-out and getting stuck on the attempt to back out of the garage… that’s if someone can make it up the ramp in the first place!
That incline makes the 3 car garage worthless! My Honda Fit scrapes on my little incline driveway. You’ll need a hovercraft to get up there.
wow…just wow…
Seriously, how the hell does a thing like this make it through the process of permits and inspections?
Money and\or booze. Most likely booze.
Yeah, I’m afraid that’s a total loss. Maggie’s right. I’ve seen that happen on drives less steep than this. Only way to fix this mess would be to excavate under the garage, and put in the new garage one floor down. On the bright side, what is now the garage would be 600 feet of new finished living space.
Stuff like this keeps me awake when planning projects… Did I forget somethign? Did I make a design choice that wiill show up later to bite me? The builder really screwed up on this one, but I guess it looked fine on the plan views. Shoud have paid more attention to the elevations….
Stuff like this happens when you give plans to cheap untrained monkeys and tell them to just do everything according to plan. And when you have made it absolutely clear to the monkeys they aren’t allowed to question things.
Darn straight – First, you ring the garage with permanent sheet piling. Call a house mover, jack up the garage about a foot and put the supports outside the pilings. Dig a big hole, pour footers and waterproofed walls, new slab, and a new framed floor. Drop the garage Bonus Room on it’s new foundation. Fill in the upper garage door.
Oh, and make the new garage with a 12′ – 14′ ceiling, so you can install a two-post lift. If you’re going to go through all that trouble…
put in the lift and a strong floor.
with some dollys you could slide cars off the lift
instant 2 level parking garage
Why not just leave the current garage, and build the new one underneath? The upper one is at the right level for when you have 10′ of snow/rain (depending on climate conditions), to park your Sno-Cat/jet-ski in.
Bruce just told you what you need to do to “build a garage underneath”. What do you think will happen if you remove the soil from below the current garage? Do you expect it to float?
“Call a house mover, jack up the garage about a foot and put the supports outside the pilings.” This means the garage will be on jacks while you excavate beneath it. No floating necessary.
I agree with your suggestion. And, unfortunately, probably the cheapest fix is to tear off the existing garage, excavate, lower the drive slope, and make this house split level (add a second floor over the garage in the process–maybe they can move it forward a little and leave the surrounding walls and roof, but breaking all of the concrete–oy). Whatever the solution, it is going to price these houses out of the marketplace where they were built and the extra square footage probably won’t be attractive enough to bring in buyers. This was a silly and expensive mistake. I like the “Evil Kneivel will park in his new garage” remark.
They couldn’t just move the sidewalk out about 4 feet, dump in some fill, and repour the driveway?
Um … don’t you mean move the sidewalk out about fifty feet?
If you think it looks fun now, just wait ’till winter! Mother Nature will not be kind to her car-driving children.
These are not garages. These are boat sheds, and it’s an area where 10′ floods occur on a regular basis.
Look at the slope- how are you even going to get the boat up there? A car’s going to get stuck at that angle.
Reading comprehension FAIL.
Not really, since you’d need to use a car to get the boat up there. Congratulations.
No… really.
You put the boat in the garage during a flood.
*sigh*.
It was sarcastic, anyhow, not literal.
That’s not sigh, that’s *facepalm*
Wow. Any idea where this is so we can make fun of them?
We Kludgers don’t worry about such trivialities.
I hope that’s in the deep deep south where ice is rare…
Unfortunately when you get as deep, deep as it would need to be to not freeze, there are no slopes this steep.
I’d imagine pulling out of that garage in the ice and snow would be a terrifying proposition. I wonder if there’s a ditch on the other side? On the other hand, it would make a great excuse not to come to work. “Sorry boss. I can’t get out of my driveway.”
This is actually quite common in and around Gotham city, it is a cleverly concealed secret garage. When the homeowner arrives home, he simply hits the garage door opener and, like a draw-bridge, the entire driveway lifts up out of the way on giant hinges concealed under the faux garage, powered by huge hydraulic cylinders. It is modeled after the Bat Cave. Once inside there is a dazzling array of useless, brightly-lit electronic devices, a set of bat poles and best of all a scantily-clad Julie Newmar dressed in a seductive skin-tight cat woman outfit.
74 year old Julie Newmar in a skin-tight outfit? Please leave the drawbridge closed.
Granted… nowadays “skin tight” isn’t what it used to be.
While we’re voting, same goes for any pre-1980s versions of Batman. Holy Spare Tire…
Luckily, it’s real dark in a bat cave.
Holy latex Batman! That was the Catwoman’s 2010 calander I saw Alfred hide next to the Bat Lubricants!
Why would you want to lubricate bats? Wait. Maybe that’s a secret you should keep to yourself.
Ask Alfred.
There’s no shame in only reporting what you’ve seen, waldo.
*snicker*
It looks like the economy has been especially tough on Bruce Wayne in this episode. Or maybe it just fits really well with the part of an animated TV show from the 70s I recently saw, in which the Batmobile has become equipped with a so-called “tracking-bleeper.” Should anyone try to steal it, a receiver in the Batcave will pinpoint the exact location of the vehicle. And I thought to myself, “That crazy Batman! How can we even imagine living in such a world?!” But if this is the new Batcave… *sigh.*
This obviously was not designed by an engineer.
I wouldn’t count on that.
Gurantee it was designed by an engineer, not a bright one, but eh they just make sure it works, its the designer who should be drawn and quartered, or made to live in one of these driving a prius (faulty brake kind)
Mmm. Julie Newmar.
Has no one here lived in a mountainous area? I’m sorry – this is not an abnormally steep driveway. I will admit that there is going to be a problem since there is no gradient curve from flat to grade and there will probably be some scratched bumpers but this is not an insurmountable climb. In addition the perspective of the picture was clearly chosen to enhance the effect.
Is it a brilliant design move? No – but the house value lost from people not wanting to scratch their bumpers was probably less than the cost it would have been to grade the area (if it was even practical given that a lot of zoning regulations limit grading in certain developmental districts). Grading is expensive and zoning regulations are fun.
You must be the designer – or perhaps related to the designer.
There will be *no* house value when no one will buy this mess. Spending the extra $20 grand on grading is much less of a loss than losing $200 grand and being stuck with the holding costs yourself on a house which will never sell.
No way zoning would disallow grading in favor of this monstrosity.
And I have lived in mountains all my life and worked in the construction industry 10+ years. Never seen any driveway this stupid.
not necessarily true. reduce the asking by 50%, and you’ll be buried under buyers. 1st, many people don’t drive cars. but even more people rarely park in the garage.
Is this even LEGAL? Home owners insurance is going be thru the roof!
Pull into that driveway too fast and so will your car.
You killed Ceiling Cat! You bastard!
This is America, where everyone parks their $100,000 cars on the street and pile their garages with trash.
Does this driveway come with it’s own Sherpa guide?
That is part of the optional package. Your choice of pack animal comes standard, though, for hauling up groceries and other supplies. If you check the floor plans for the house, you’ll note that there is a feeding trough in the garage.
Sleeding right to the street, that will be interesting…
Is that Fayetteville, NC? I saw a neighborhood just like this, everyone with those driveways had to park in the street.
That’s one way to keep the kids’ toys out of the driveway!
I guess we won’t be seeing a basketball hoop over the garage door either.
The skateboarders will adore this, though. I had to chase the big kids with boards out of my shared drive when my kids were little. Toddlers on straddled plastic push-cars and skate boards are incompatible, but the toddlers wouldn’t go near this drive.
Skateboarders won’t love this. There is no transition from vert. You’ll go down it once, do a face plant, and knock out all your teeth.
This give new meaning as to why they call them Zombie developments.
It won’t be long until those slabs of cement will be in the road!
This is terrible – but it’s no kludge, in fact it’s the opposite. A kludge is someone seeing a problem, and using some THOUGHT to fix it in an expedient and cheap, yet objectively dreadful, way.
This, by contrast, shows that nobody thought about it all. Probably the designer didn’t even realise there was a problem.
Than that means we need to think of a fix!
You are right. It’s no kludge. It’s a nightmare. The angle is so steep that the front bumper will get hung up with the tires off the ground if they try to drive up it, and the reverse if driving down it. Only my 4WD tractor, with a few feet of clearance underneath, could make it up that drive. But with the cab on top, it wouldn’t fit in the garage.
You might need the bumper winch too…
It may not be a kludge, but it is a great opportunity to come up with one to fix the problem. I propose a longer ramp duct-taped together from old ladders and planks, that you can fold up.
“Chutes & ladders” gone wild?
Probably the designers owned a red Dodge Charger that played the first twelve notes of Dixie.
win.
Possible names for the subdivision:
Rolling Hills, Dizzying Heights, Something’s Broken Slopes, and Concrete Falls.
Welcome to the exciting new community:
Elevation Overlook
Or, Plummet Summit
Or, Litigation Acres
Real-Estate-is-Not-Always-a-Good-Investment Farms
Big Turnover Meadows
The Flood Will Never Reach These Heights
Wait ‘Til the Ground Settles
Mudslide Manor
Nosebleed Heights
Halfpipe Drive
Liability Landing… Spillsville… Steepy Hollow… Noskates Estates… Vertical Village… Slippin Falls… Darenot Park… Fallaway Farms… Parkingbrake Peak… Stoppand Pointe… Runningstart Ridge
Please don’t even bring in the landscapers—no one will want to get the lawnmower out of the garage, let alone try to cut the grass.
*** PHOTOSHOP ***
This can’t be real…
I have seen a good many of places sort of like this,you just have to leave the house once in a while and do a lil traveling.
I think they should call it Sudden Valley.
I want to know what building inspector is going to sign off on it.
An inspector probably pointed out that driveways must be almost level from the curb to the far side of the sidewalk. So the developer called in the heavy equipment, and made that part level. You can see the evidence that they took out a chunk of hill to make that happen. It must have cost extra to put in a concrete driveway at that angle. What idiot authorized that?
Note that the driveway would have been too steep even if it went straight from the garage floor to the road, but a lot more vehicles could have made that climb.
There is the possibility that the road commission re-engineered the road after the houses were mostly complete. If the road was closer to the garage floor level at the start of construction, then it makes a little more sense.
Or this is construction from the last year or two of the housing bubble. Many houses were built then for which there were no potential owners, but the builders got financing anyway. The appraisers made up prices for the homes that were also wildly unrealistic.
Don’t forget the inspectors that were scurring around picking up errant envelopes.
My previous house had a fairly steep driveway, right after we moved in the city rebuilt the road, which used to bank away from the house; our side of the road was then about 2 ft lower. They took out the bottom half of the cement drive, and replaced it with a steeper one, almost as steep as this but with a nicer join to the flat. The angle at the bottom was such that some cars would scrape, esp if you went up too fast and didn’t give time for the springs to rise. Crossing the line at an angle helps. Trucks with long overhang behind the rear wheels would scrape their hitch backing up. Overall the road rebuild was a big improvement, but the steep drive was a pain.
With the house illustrated, the drive is really wide, so many cars could handle it just by crossing both bends at as large an angle as possible. The slope is not too sleep to climb, unless icy. Building up the floor just inside the garage, to smooth that transition, would help too. Still, not what you want see in something that was presumably ‘designed’. I agree it was probably a late change to get the sidewalk grade to code.
I’ve driven up a public road in San Diego which I’m pretty sure was steeper than this (rent a car at the airport, follow directions to go north) but without the sharp transitions. It’s a short road below an overpass, as I recall.
Doesn’t look like AZ so I doubt they go by AZ building codes…..oh I seen the .az.gov and didn’t even bother to look at the link.
Its not too steep, the real problem is that it doesnt gracefully change from flat to steep. Its all at one point, so only a car with a lot of ground clearance will make the change without scraping.
the little prius that could
I want my paper up by the garage door!
I want my car up by the garage door.
It’s going to be a lot easier to bring the garage door down to the car.
Sure, we’ll have the door right down at street level in five minutes.
Oh, you wanted the entire garage?
No problem. I’ve ordered a mobile crane to come and lift your car, and once it’s up there we’ll put a couple dozen lag bolts through it to keep it from sliding down again.
Go go gadget car elevator springs!!!
great… almost epic…
It’s quite a consolation. He thought he had signed for a 35% mortgage entry rate said the very fine prints but realized that it was instead a 35˚ garage entry grade…
Don’t really need flood protection after all!
Imagine the kids trying to play basketball with the obligatory backboard-on-a-pole by the drive!
Nothing short of a rock-crawler would even make it up that first approach angle!
Here in San Antonio a developer did this exact same thing. It too him six years to sell those houses, a deep discount. He lost money. Your right, I would have put the garage at street level and a bonus room above, then sold it as ‘Built in Stair Climbers.’
Interesting concept buttt…
Looks Photoshopped to me. If you enlarge the image you’ll see a difference in the artifacts in the “driveway” and other cement surfaces. The light looks wonky too.
yawn.
Doubly Yawn, especially when one has physically walked on such constructions.
Hope you didn’t trip over any artifacts.
I find it is very easy to trip over artifacts, if the light is sufficiently wonky. So, two more entries on the lists of ‘cons’ for this property: artifacts strewn about, wonky light. Also, street seems kind of low.
Not ‘shopped: http://leenks.com/gallery499.htm
Not photoshopped. You can google and find this development, along with other angles and shots of the house, one with a SUV climbing the driveway – barely.
This really exists. I haven’t been able to find out WHERE the development is, though.
As a matter of fact, if you google “Steep driveway”, the first results will be links to these pictures, including alternate views – and a snopes article.
It takes just a couple of seconds before you post to check to make sure you’re not going to put your foot in your mouth.
Nope. Real.
Another angle: http://www.nachi.org/forum/attachments/f16/15761d1194038126-max-driveway-slope-driveway_steep2.jpg
Rather worryingly I’ve seen as steep or steeper drives down the road from my parents old house but the other way around, the garage was about five feet below the road. Most people parked in the street.
I suppose that as reverse gear is somewhat lower, if you park the right way around you might be able to get in/out of your garage maybe? Will burn out the clutch of a manual car in about a week though.
No risk of burning out the clutch. Once the car is out of ground clearance on the start of the slope, the drive wheels will spin freely.
Photoshopped. This photo has been around for at least six or seven years, and it’s well-known to be a PhotoShop job.
Nevermind the links to actual pictures & news articles. Or were those also ‘shopped?
Wow that seems totally unusable. Somebody is gonna get sued over that one.
I *knew* I’ve seen this photo before, on the Naval Safety Center website, which if you’ve never seen before, you should definitely head over there now and waste the next few days going through the archives. This photo was from 2004.
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/archive/archive_101-150/photo128.htm
Seems like it would have been easier just to build a semi-underground garage at street-level than to have to fool with all that grading and (hopefully) reinforcing so the darn driveway doesn’t collapse when the soil underneath washes away.
Whoa, I swear I’ve personally seen that.
Dad: “I’m so glad you decided to let me help you learn to ride your bike, Little Susie. Now, I saw this on TV, so trust me okay? First, we go to the top of the driveway, and then I run with you for a moment, and then I let go of you! Hang on tight, okay? One, two, three…”
On the plus side, they’re above the flood plain. Aaaand it’ll really slow the zombies’ frontal approach.
Just sell the house with its own complementary 4×4 vehicles. Done!
I’m not sure a truck with a lift kit could get up there without scraping the bumpers. I see a lot of street parking in the future of whatever idiot buys that house.
There would be much profanity if I hit the top of that thing after some freezing rain and wound up at the street curb in about 2 seconds.
A bunch of house in West Salem have driveways like that.
Useless.
1) That will make for a very interesting Easter egg hunt for the kids.
2) Unless you’re in top-top shape, you’re going to need a ski resort style chair lift.
3) Have fun carrying groceries to the door.
4) Have it in writing and signed by someone of authority before having that 50-inch screen, stove, refrigerator, etc, delivered.
5) Forget any parties that involve alcohol.
I object to #5. Just make sure you have a camera ready and are still sober enough to operate it by the end of the party. Or use CCTV
This was made so americans could pretend to have “reason” for owning a big SUV (ok, most things called “SUV” can’t do such stuff…)
The average SUVs fray into “off-roading” is hitting the dirt parking lot of the local flea market.
My ’68 Bronco says it will do it (stock) these things today called SUV’s are just over priced P.O.S. meant for soccer mom to think she can do 65mph in 6in of snow or 85 through 2in of rain,hey after all it’s a SUV and usually has the god almighty all wheel drive.
Oh wtf is the station wagons anymore?No not these little P.O.S….I mean real one’s like the the Ford Country Squire or the Chevy Impala you could haul 2 ball teams of kids in those on 3 bench seats.
Looks like the driveway was drastically shortened after they placed a sidewalk. The street may have also been set in after the house was built. Either way this is a surveying failure.
I’ve seen townhouse garages like that in London, except that the garage was one level underground and the driveway was a 45 degree slope upwards. I never understood how anyone would be able to accelerate fast enough to get out without ending up halfway on the road.
Hooray for Photoshop!
This is fake!
Here’s another one, that you could launch ships from:
http://www.natresnet.org/ratings/overview/resources/photos/photos/driveway.jpg
Poor planning lead to poor results. Incredible.
Visualize, people. You live in a pretty subdivision usually full of chirping birds and flowers, except that it’s winter right now. In fact, you are at home this morning because of an ice storm. You take your coffee into the living room, stand in your picture window, and are looking directly across the street as your neighbor noses his ginormous SUV out of his garage and onto his…
…skate ramp of a driveway, and you are so relieved to know that you have an even higher quarter pipe drive on your own side of the street. “Whew! He’ll never quite hit my house now!” you exclaim. “And I have free entertainment watching people try to navigate the neighborhood, even in good weather!” So thank goodness for developers who can see the big picture…
Hee hee! Good one. I like the SUV trapped in a little perpetual motion canyon. Back and forth, back and forth. Visualization is so restful.
That’s much better than a continuous downhill grade, goes airborne, sails through the picture window, last thought in this life is “Aw no, I’m goin’ to Heaven on the grill of a…” Much better.
Growing up my friend had a driveway like that in Littleton. Getting up to their front door in the winter, with the ice and snow, was always a) done across the equally steep lawn where there was at least some traction and b) generally done with the biggest stick we could find and stab into the frozen lawn to help haul ourselves up.
On the bright side of things it was not a busy street so you could sled down it almost constantly.
On the not bright side my sisters took me up on a bike when I was learning to ride and then -pushed me down it-.
Scroll down to the 3-22-09 post.
http://www.contractortalk.com/f83/steep-slope-pour-55760/
Thats why you need a 4-wheeler SUV in the city.
during winter the car needs the rope to reach the street safetly.
Hey that’s my house! Ok, no not really…but pretty darn close! The driveway has more curviness than this one, and we don’t have sidewalks (but the land is flattened at the bottom to accept them) but it’s pretty much what my front yard & driveway look like.
My son’s 2nd birthday, he decided to ride his new toddler bike thingie down the hill while no one was looking. He ended up on the middle of the street, on his side…biggest grin you ever saw on his face. And this winter’s record snowfall has been great, the kids sled right from the front door, and then over the plow-bank into the street.
OMG….I hope this is not in the Midwest! Snow & ice–I can see it now…OMG….Hope the house across the street has good insurance! LOL
Remember; Location, Location, Location!
Just not this location.
how is this a fix?
The driveway is actually a red herring for robbers. The real entrance is via crane that is being installed in the backyard.
If so then the moat is missing.
When house-hunting, I specifically told my real estate guy no houses like this. Like the London guy said, I saw the same reverse-incline, but only 12 feet long, requiring some serious horsepower to get out.
And behold, the only houses in the neighborhood to include luxury incline railways.
“See honey, that’s the reason why we need a SUV.”
I pity the poor movers. I am sure that they were told we have an easy access through double garage doors. Moving the piano out to be a snap.
They will never sell that house.
I can only assume that this is some sort of PhotoShop altered pictue. You couldn’t pour concrete at that angle without special forms which would be much more expensive than a normal driveway. Also, no automobile could make that abrubt a transition from level to incline. Not being familiar with this web site, perhaps its understood that their postings aren’t “real”.
Not faked. See thread on this contractors’ forum.
http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25606
This is what happens when your developers play too much Sim City 2000.
Forget anythin but a 4WD. No hot cars with skirts here!!! Thated totally suck!
“…with breath-taking views & Zombie resistant driveway, is sure to please even the most discriminating post-apocalyptic home owner”
At last we know where International Rescue *really* hides Thunderbird 2.
I think I’ve got a fix that might work.
ok, we don’t fix the driveway angle. We fix how the car gets to the garage. You know those motorized electric stair climbing chairs that people who can’t climb stairs use? Imagine a very LARGE one with a flat surface instead of a seat.
Drive up to your house. Use a remote to lower the platform to street level. Drive onto the platform. Ride the lift up. Open your garage and drive in!
Built by a contract with a manual transmission and a dead battery on his truck…
“At least it keeps the Black Knight at bay.”
How am I gonna get my 911 out of the garage?
Actually, how am I gonna get my 911 IN the garage?
Anyone have a number for Mike Holmes?
I got news for you: pretty soon you’ll be calling 911.
Dang, the fall was supposed to be 10″ not 10′ – what happened to the extra ‘…?
Every time I see a driveway like this I wonder why someone would build a house that had a driveway like this. Then I wonder why someone would buy a house that had a driveway like this.
To easily answer that with 1 answer to both questions. IDIOTS
Well, it might not be finished yet. Perhaps they will install a car escalator.
That’s how steep my driveway is
When I get in the car it feels like I’m about to launch to the moon. If you drop a can of soup or anything else that rolls as you unload the groceries from the car, forget it. It’s gone.
Also, I rent
I wouldn’t build or buy a house with this ridiculous of a driveway. All the neighbors have normal driveways. *sigh*
No matter how the day starts, yours always goes downhill when you leave the house
I wonder if they come with cable winches in the back of the garages to tow your car in ??
OK the drive ways and sidewalk are ‘shopped’ in but there is still a huge elevation issue over a relatively short distance — better hope this is snow & ice free country
There is no way, in any place that this building is to code!! It is way too steep at such a short span. Do I hear pay off to the local inspector? This just can not be legit even in the boonies for new or old construction. Think this is a Photoshop fake!!
buildings are code – driveway’s aren’t – they’re shopped (take out the 7ft between street and sidewalk – even it and its manageable.
PS – I actually worked at a house with a driveway like these – only way to go with my truck was backwards (forwards – no traction) , full gas and ready to slam the brakes when you hit the flats
wow i would love to see a follow up pic to know if they actually sold any or had to modify them ifrst
this is where kristi plans to fly
Oh, it’s real all right:
http://tinyurl.com/35fgt95
photoshop….the driveway isn’t that steep. You can tell in the link above.
Use Google Maps and Street View and go to the 5100 block of New Bridge Road, between N. Cannondale Drive and Balsford Drive, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. You’ll see that they rebuilt the driveway after moving the sidewalk closer to the street, only in front of the three affected houses. All the posted photos are real, as they are before and after. Not Photoshopped. Looks like the one house was still for sale when Google drove down the street.
Someone please call the producers of “Holmes on Homes,” either that or the one’s for “Jackass.”
I think what happened was the person just shrunk the image, making it look steeper than it is. Heres a screenshot straight from Google Maps (above link) I spent less than 10 seconds in paint with, side by side
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa149/wyzer1/steepdriveway.jpg
The right being the original, left having shrunk it a little. Because of the perspective doesn’t make anything look odd, but the driveway looks really steep
hang glider launch.
crossridge the paving. drive a tractor (or trials bike).
redo the easements, then angle the drives parallel to each other (like angled parking slots). unfortunately, that covers everything with paving.