Garage Door Apron Repair

We then installed a diamond masonry cutting blade on a skilsaw and cut a deep cut along the chalk line.

Garage door apron repair.

Make sure it s out far enough to include all the settled asphalt. The apron of your driveway can sometimes sink causing a noticeable difference between your driveway and garage floor. Depending on the type of issue and progression different solutions are available. Cut out asphalt in a straight line across the full width of driveway approximately 2 3 feet out as needed from the garage door.

If your driveway apron is in bad shape presenting a danger to pedestrians the local code compliance officer may ask you to have it repaired which may include patching it to the city s. Thorough clean up of construction area. We snapped a line half the width of the garage door thickness. Snap a chalk line parallel to the garage door.

Install expansion strip along garage edge. It s attractive you can do it yourself and you can easily reset the pavers if the soil settles again. In this case the soil would need to be dug up and replaced. The aprons are 18 wide by the length of the door.

If sinkholes are present the entire apron may need to be removed foundation filled and base material raised. It could be that the soil compaction was not consistent. Our sunken apron repair service will bring the asphalt back to the level of the concrete garage floor. 1st class sunken apron repair.