Stone garage wall failing, help!

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

Hello all, I have an old 3 sided stone garage (front is wood). The foundation has failed on the rear wall and subsequently the blocks are leaning outwards and will eventually collapse onto my neighbors property/rear porch. I need ideas for how to brace them as cheaply as possible, please. If I could afford to fix the issue Id have done it long ago. It would be nice to keep the garage. My thoughts are to build a new wooden wall on the inside where the concrete foundation is still good then remove the stone wall. Any other ideas?

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GN Builders L.L.C

3 years ago

There is one town I work in, there is a dime a dozen of this type of garage with rock face block and every 3d one has the same issues as you...Footing settlement during the early stage and the original owners never did anything.

Simple repair is to clean up existing mortar and fill the gap with a non-shrink mortar and call it a day, or if you want to sink money into it you can do a more extensive repair but that will cost you.

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millworkman
3 years ago
Pictures would help us help you.....................
Nancy Terry
Original Author
3 years ago
There you go and thank you. I cant get into the garage today to show you the crumbling foundation floor back in that corner but will try to do so tomorrow.
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millworkman
3 years ago
How about a pic from a bit further back so we can see what were looking at overall.
User
3 years ago
The liability of that collapsing will be far greater than the cost to rebuild it properly. If you cannot afford the risk, or the rebuild, then just tear it down.
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beesneeds
3 years ago
If you have a crumbling foundation and the wall looks like that.. you need to get in a pro to help you. Masonry. Maybe they can do something to fix the foundation and wall- maybe you might need to do a tear down. By the looks of the staining, moss, and gutter condition I am going to guess you have been having a water issue for a while and you have a lot to address there.
millworkman
3 years ago
That is just a block face or veneer for lack of a better term. @GN Builders L.L.C advice is correct.
3onthetree
3 years ago
Not sure how the condition of the footing is - if it even has one. But at the window all the wash down the wall looks like a gutter was not working there and you probably had some sinking of the ground over time. If you've fixed the water issue then it looks like it's not far enough out of whack to fall down, so do as GN says. If it's like many old garages it also has some framing for the roof that was removed/failed and the rafters could be pushing out on the wall too.