On Feb 9, 6:25*pm, Actor123 wrote:
Hi all:

Our driveway is in need of complete replacement and as part of our
discussions we are considering moving the driveway entirely to
possible free up room for a later addition to the house. *This would
involve keeping the same garage, but having the cars enter the garage
from what is now one of the "sides" of the garage. *So basically it
would mean moving the garage door to an adjacent (perpendicular) wall
from where it is now, and then pouring a new driveway to a new
opening. *I assume this can be accomplished by framing a brand new
opening on the side of the garage and just closing the existing hole
up. *Are there any major issues I am not aware of with this? *The only
thing I can possibly see is that the garage floor, which is now sloped
towards the existing opening for drainage, wouldn't be sloped
correctly for drainage anymore. *Is this a code issue? Because if not
I don't think this is something that would cause me great concern (the
house itself is up a foot from the base of the garage, so it'd be
protected from any major water issues.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

The wall that you are going to move it to is going to be a load
bearing wall. Any time you put a hole that big in a load bearing wall
there is going to be issues. At one time I wanted to do that to my
present home until I found out how major a job that would be. I also
found that my garage formed a big box that pretty much kept my house
from collapsing and that any messing about with it could be dangerous.
Vaulted greatroom and master bedroom get lateral support from the
garage on one side and two unvaulted bedrooms on the other side. Per
this example you can see that your problem may be much more complex
than you realize.


Jimmie