Garage Door Apron Repair
Our sunken apron repair service will bring the asphalt back to the level of the concrete garage floor.
Garage door apron repair. Make sure it s out far enough to include all the settled asphalt. The aprons are 18 wide by the length of the 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. We then installed a diamond masonry cutting blade on a skilsaw and cut a deep cut along the chalk line.
Depending on the type of issue and progression different solutions are available. It s attractive you can do it yourself and you can easily reset the pavers if the soil settles again. Snap a chalk line parallel to the garage door. It could be that the soil compaction was not consistent.
Thorough clean up of construction area. Another approach to fixing a sunken driveway is to make an apron from paving brick. The apron of your driveway can sometimes sink causing a noticeable difference between your driveway and garage floor. Install expansion strip along garage edge.
We decided that we could repair any of the aprons in the project that needed to be repaired using cerlon. If sinkholes are present the entire apron may need to be removed foundation filled and base material raised. In this case the soil would need to be dug up and replaced. We snapped a line half the width of the garage door thickness.