All this garage talk has reminded me of our current garage saga: We noticed some time ago that the bottom of one of the walls was bowing out and the siding boards popping off. I dug in there and found punky, water damaged wood, including the 2x4 studs for a certain distance up the wall. Oy. I just put it back and thought about what to do.
Aslo noticed that fine granules of dirt were getting pushed up into the interior of the garage along that same area of that wall. A rodent's digging? Ants digging? Or the wall/foundation sinking and displacing dirt? Noticed eventually (we tend to put things off) that the concrete floor along that edge had somehow cracked and broken away, allowing the wall to kick out and down with it. The whole side of the garage is sinking. Also, the whole garage floor is badly cracked. We have since found out how the "handyman" trade works: They are happy to show up and take a look, they may even offer to fix it, but you generally don't hear from them again, or maybe they call and leave a message three months later saying they've gotten ahold of a concrete guy, for example. We've had three different fix-it-guys (all referred to us by friends or acquaintences) act this way. They've lost a lot of money, and we need to put our house up for sale as soon as spring. Brian Curt wrote: The floor in my garage is wavy pavement because somebody (the previous owner built the house so I think I know who "somebody" was) was to lazy to compact or put good fill under the floor.
