Hmm … our driveway is slightly sloped up from the street into our garage. I’d have to tear up the garage floor and driveway slabs and excavate more than two feet down to fit our HR Transit in our garage, but that might be cheaper than raising the garage. Oh, never mind; I think the Transit is also too long to fit. So far I’m getting away with street parking though technically the van is too tall for legal residential parking, and the City was happy to sell me the permit which is required in my neighborhood.
But narrower than the H1 Hummer. Even for parking on the street, I had to do some fairly major tree trimming so I could park by my house. Otherwise I knew my roof would end up looking like every Amazon high-roof Transit I see, with arboreal damage, often front and rear.
That’s interesting about lowering the driveway. A friend of mine bought a Jeep Commander and it didn’t fit in the old one care garage. So she ended up jacking up the garage so she could park inside. It was done in haste and looks quite bad. What caught my eye is the external roll up window shutter. Here in the states usually they are reserved for businesses in rough parts of town. Are they used for environmental reasons like hurricanes and such?
I’m of two thoughts. One, what I think of as a Sprinter van here in the US, is a large van. Quite large really, and it doesn’t fit in the carport because it’s too big, not because the carport is too small. On the other hand, I like to see where people just make things work. Tip of my hat to that, even if I do think it’s too big. I’m also curious as to what happens when it rains, but so be it.
Somewhat OT. I see similar often in the small burg I live in. But on the sidewalk, trees have grown up and displaced the concrete, so rather than redo the poured concrete sidewalk, only to have the same thing happen again in a couple of years, people remove the concrete and put in pavers. Which flex and move as the tree grows. Yeah, it might not meet ADA, but it’s a damned lot better than broken concrete with a 6 inch unmarked step.
There’s still enough incline from the top of the driveway to the street in the background. Just to be sure, there’s an extra water drain right behind the camper van. Everything laser-measured. Both the height of the van (before the job) and during the driveway reconstruction. After all, to measure is to know.
This is a common problem, and a clever solution since the “pavement” is made of blocks set in sand, and not poured concrete like most in the US.
Yes, brick pavers are the norm for a driveway beside a private house. Poured concrete is only used for bigger lots, like farm yards.
Hmm … our driveway is slightly sloped up from the street into our garage. I’d have to tear up the garage floor and driveway slabs and excavate more than two feet down to fit our HR Transit in our garage, but that might be cheaper than raising the garage. Oh, never mind; I think the Transit is also too long to fit. So far I’m getting away with street parking though technically the van is too tall for legal residential parking, and the City was happy to sell me the permit which is required in my neighborhood.
Indeed, it’s quite a beast for any garage….height- and length-wise.
But narrower than the H1 Hummer. Even for parking on the street, I had to do some fairly major tree trimming so I could park by my house. Otherwise I knew my roof would end up looking like every Amazon high-roof Transit I see, with arboreal damage, often front and rear.
That’s interesting about lowering the driveway. A friend of mine bought a Jeep Commander and it didn’t fit in the old one care garage. So she ended up jacking up the garage so she could park inside. It was done in haste and looks quite bad. What caught my eye is the external roll up window shutter. Here in the states usually they are reserved for businesses in rough parts of town. Are they used for environmental reasons like hurricanes and such?
External roll up window shutters on private houses are highly common.
I’m of two thoughts. One, what I think of as a Sprinter van here in the US, is a large van. Quite large really, and it doesn’t fit in the carport because it’s too big, not because the carport is too small. On the other hand, I like to see where people just make things work. Tip of my hat to that, even if I do think it’s too big. I’m also curious as to what happens when it rains, but so be it.
Somewhat OT. I see similar often in the small burg I live in. But on the sidewalk, trees have grown up and displaced the concrete, so rather than redo the poured concrete sidewalk, only to have the same thing happen again in a couple of years, people remove the concrete and put in pavers. Which flex and move as the tree grows. Yeah, it might not meet ADA, but it’s a damned lot better than broken concrete with a 6 inch unmarked step.
There’s still enough incline from the top of the driveway to the street in the background. Just to be sure, there’s an extra water drain right behind the camper van. Everything laser-measured. Both the height of the van (before the job) and during the driveway reconstruction. After all, to measure is to know.