Finished my new Driveway

Ron-P
Ron-P Posts: 8,520
edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Contractor just finished it a week ago ;)
If...
Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,775
    edited December 2003
    @_@ HFMOG! Pull out the hiking boots eh?
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited December 2003
    You forgot to install the Basketball hoop above the garage door! That should make for an interesting game;)

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  • Wardsweb
    Wardsweb Posts: 939
    edited December 2003
    :eek: No Way!
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited December 2003
    Just to clarify, this is not my house. My boss emailed the pics to me. F'ing insane. Here's a shot of another house...
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited December 2003
    Oops, guess the pic would help :o
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,775
    edited December 2003
    Well....the 30 footer would indeed be 30 foot high and 30 feet back......wow.....I wouldnt buy that house on the driveway alone! WTF!

    3001 post....
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited December 2003
    Look at the effin skid marks from the vehicle trying to get up the driveway!!!!

    NUTS

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  • MTXMAN
    MTXMAN Posts: 682
    edited December 2003
    I would not want to go up or down that in the winter... you'd never get up and just try to stop on the way down when it's iced over...
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited December 2003
    My driveway is the same length. The first half looks like the ones in the pic. The second half is level. Not as bad as you might think but what really sucks about the ones in the pics is that you would have to have a 4wd truck for front end height clearance. My camaro would be stuck with all 4 wheels off the ground! They could at least have left a little relief angle from the sidewalk to the driveway!
    madmax

    Edit: Oh yea, when it gets icy I have to leave a rope hanging down over it. Otherwise the only way to get up it is to take off your shoes and very carefully climb up. Do you know how freakin cold that gets! The rope idea came about after doing this 4 times the same night. Each time I would get most of the way and then slide back down into the street. Hilarious to the neighbors I'm sure...
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited December 2003
    how did it pass building code? :confused:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2003
    Is that Evil Knievel's driveway? My wife would drive right through our roof if that was our house.
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  • Steve@3dai
    Steve@3dai Posts: 983
    edited December 2003
    My 3" exhaust would prevent me from living there ;) hahaha


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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by madmax
    Each time I would get most of the way and then slide back down into the street. Hilarious to the neighbors I'm sure...

    ROFLMAO!!!

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited December 2003
    Just a thought here fellas....

    With front drives, there probably isn't an alleyway, right?

    How about rolling the FULL trashcan(s) down that effer once a week? Someone needs to get video of that. As soon as you take that first 'hump' out of the garage - nothing but asses and elbows. An avalanche of empty rum bottles, Swanson pot-pie boxes, and some dickhead going end over end to the bottom of the drive.

    Gotta be a hell of sight.

    Cheers,
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    nothing but asses and elbows. An avalanche of empty rum bottles, Swanson pot-pie boxes, and some dickhead going end over end to the bottom of the drive.

    Gotta be a hell of sight.

    Cheers,
    Russ

    That is what it's like. Are you calling me a dickhead? :D:D:D

    On mine,
    Passing buiding codes? They didn't have a problem with it. Many houses in my development has this problem. Imagine this one. The truck is in 4wd, 4th trip to the top, Put in park, slides down in the middle of the street again. I wanted to have it paved with asphalt but if I did I would never get the truck to stick to it...

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  • dave shepard
    dave shepard Posts: 1,334
    edited December 2003
    Why would anybody make the driveway with such a steep angle like that? The sudden angle change has to limit what can get up to the garage. My 98 Dakota ext cab 4x4 mabey if I was lucky, my 00 Ram 4x4 possibly without the plow or brackets, my wifes 02 Neon forget it!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited December 2003
    With all the architects out there, none of them could **** think of building a basement garage?!?!?!?!?! Idiots................
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  • -justin-
    -justin- Posts: 891
    edited December 2003
    Hope it doesn't snow there.

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited December 2003
    Should have good drainage...
    madmax
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    An avalanche of empty rum bottles, Swanson pot-pie boxes, and some dickhead going end over end to the bottom of the drive.

    Gotta be a hell of sight.

    Cheers,
    Russ

    Is his name HBomb by chance:confused:

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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited December 2003
    So I was taking a walk the other day, and I turned the corner........there in the distance........it was the most grand thing I've ever seen. "Mom" I said, "look at the effin Garage up on the hill"........she hit me. (see pic 2)
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited December 2003
    can you get a refund on that? LOL

    I'd need mountain climbing gear to scale that sucker. wow. it's amazing. i'm sending that pic to all my friends.. the'll love it.

    :p
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2003
    How about the lanscaping issue it poses as well??
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited December 2003
    The only landscaping I can think of, is to build stairs/steps on the side parallel to the driveway, and sell tickets in the winter time for a nice ride/slide down on a toboggan for the neighborhood kids :)
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited December 2003
    I know the guy who owns that house, this year I've sold him 3 front bumpers for his '92 camaro. ;)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited April 2005
    Funny old one. ;)
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,056
    edited April 2005
    Just be happy that drive way is not built in Canada, with all the snow and freezing rain !! might as well park on the street.

    As mentioned above good luck to the kids trying to play hockey in the drive-way.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited April 2005
    ROFL This thread is hilarious!! Imagine carrying the full trash can down that driveway.......when it's iced over!
    Originally posted by madmax:
    Oh yea, when it gets icy I have to leave a rope hanging down over it. Otherwise the only way to get up it is to take off your shoes and very carefully climb up. Do you know how freakin cold that gets! The rope idea came about after doing this 4 times the same night. Each time I would get most of the way and then slide back down into the street. Hilarious to the neighbors I'm sure...

    That's absolutely insane!! Four times in one night?! LOOOOL
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited April 2005
    That's crazy.... The builder should have leveled that site.

    And this goes out again that most people don't want to do the right thing, just the quick thing.....

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  • okiepolkie
    okiepolkie Posts: 2,258
    edited April 2005
    I emailed the pics to my architect today and asked if he could design my driveway like that.

    This was his response:
    please tell me that is photoshopped..."Mommy.. can I go ride my bike ....AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"....crash
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