Leveling Concrete Under Garage Door

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Leveling concrete under garage door. Help with a garage door where concrete is not level. However an out of kilter garage floor may require leveling when two critical scenarios happen. The first step in leveling a garage floor is to determine the high point of the floor. This is a common issue we run into especially with older garages.

Now some years have passed and your garage floor is less than perfect. Second and far more critical is when the garage floor has begun to tilt backward toward the house. The concrete floor was very crooked so after installation there is about a 1 2 gap at one end under the sill plate that was attached to the door. However there still exist a 3 4 and a 1 3 4 gap on each corner due to the tilting of the concrete because of a large crack.

See the following figures that clearly explain how to do it. Are you building a new garage and wondering how to get the concrete door threshold ready. Leveling out a garage floor can make it much easier to install any type of cabinetry or workbenches. The process of leveling a garage floor doesn t need to be handled by a professional concrete contractor.

And i now get a perfect seal without any daylight showing under the door at all. 09 02 2011 9 49 pm 9. Mother nature plays a large role in helping continued. View profile view forum posts view blog entries view articles op contributor join date dec 2005.

First the floor may be so out of level that the garage floor does not meet the bottom edge of the door. When your house was built and the garage floor was poured assuming it s concrete of course it was level new and gorgeous. I recently installed a new metal exterior door between my garage and basement.