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Closing up Garage Door - Do I Need a Footing?

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#1 ·
Hi All,
I live in Rhode Island and have an attached garage. I'm closing up the garage door and putting in a window and normal exterior door instead. My question is regarding the area where the new wall will sit. Currently its pavement from the driveway. I'd like to cut out the pavement and poor a small footer of concrete the but up against the slab floor and act as a surface for the wall to sit on.

How deep do I need to make this go down? It's an existing structure and is also a gable end, so does it need to be the typical 48" a foundation or other footing would need to? Hope not!
 
#5 ·
Agreed, the foundation wall should already carry through underneath the driveway. It's not typical to have the driveway extend into the garage that far, but it is done at times for various reasons. If you remove that small section of driveway, you should find foundation underneath, and then you can pour a concrete patch over that. An elevated curb, up to the height of the existing concrete/block curb (assuming it has one) would be a good idea as well........
 
#7 · (Edited)
I have a one car attached garage on my house. I turned it into a den. I just hired a carpenter and had him install a entry door with flanking transom(i don't think this is what there called.) An entry door with thin windows on both sides. Custom ordered. No digging necessary. Just bolted down to concrete. Not before he did a few things here and there for proper install. This was several years ago.
 
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