On 14 Apr 2005 09:06:30 -0700, someone wrote:

No apron, no asphalt here. He wants to pour the concrete so where it
meets the driveway there is a 1.5-2.5 inch DROP. The water will pool
at that point clear across the garage door. A 1/2 inch drop after an
apron that's even with the floor is a differerent thing. Imagine
stepping down 2 inches from the garage to the driveway

The apron needs to slope away from the garage no matter what.

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with the driveway being from
zero to slightly (say an inch or two) lower than the garage floor.
But the next few feet of the driveway must still slope away from the
garage.

I wouldn't want a wife who asked anonymous strangers for info to use
against me. Maybe WE (out here on usenet) are just chock full 'o ****.
You expect him to do something, because you CLAIM an anonymous person
that he doesn't even know, said it????

I had a now EX wife like that once. If I said something and she
wanted to contradict me, she would always invoke what she claimed
somebody ELSE said. Never had an opinion that she 'fessed up to being
her own. It was always because somebody else (supposedly) said it.

There is more going on here than home repairs.


Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file.

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:55:48 GMT, (v) wrote:

I wouldn't want a wife who asked anonymous strangers for info to use
against me. Maybe WE (out here on usenet) are just chock full 'o ****.
You expect him to do something, because you CLAIM an anonymous person
that he doesn't even know, said it????

Did you somehow miss the litany of construction ****ups the husband
has already achieved, viz. mis-installed windows and the like? Not
that you have an invalid point, but, as you said:

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There is more going on here than home repairs.

Very true, but regardless, the woman is trying to clarify an expensive
situation before she gets stuck with a massive bill for yet another
****up. I don't blame her one bit, and I don't give a **** about the
rest of her marital problems. I'm only interested in the situation
she presented, which clearly is wrong (a 2-inch difference in the
levels of a driveway and a garage), and that should be the focus of
all of our responses.

Or were you about to say that she should solve her problem by
divorcing this man who is proposing a clearly wrong approach to the
driveway/garage threshold?

LOL

Thanks KLS. Yes the years of re-repair have cost big bucks

V no wonder you are divorced. Someone dares point out you may be
falible and you bail. Great partner.

I myself have been married to this sweet man that can't fix **** for 27
years. He does other things quite well indeed (maybe the other thing
was actually your "short" coming) He actually told me not to water my
newly planted tomato plants for 2 weeks because they would grow stonger
by forming a better root system looking for moisture. they died.
next year I watered them when he wasn't looking. saves on arguements

In the past I would give my opinion on one of his far out procedures,
he would do it his way anyway, then apologize later when it fell apart.
I've found that finding proof for him mkes it easier for him to skip
the screw up step. I found info here and several other professional
masonery sites that agree with Mr Weeks the first responder to my
question. Besides, experts do sometimes respond on this site.

But V maybe someday you will find a deaf mute with no brains that
agrees to your every thought