Our carport and driveway are located on a slope, which meant that our driveway was kind of steep. We decided that the new garage should be recessed below grade a few feet to make the driveway closer to street level. This required removal of the slab for the carport. And this is where we ran into our first big obstacle.
When our carport was built in 1995 it was required to have beefed up footings. There was also some concrete underground from when the house was originally built. This turned out to be a massive amount of concrete. No one can figure out why there was so much concrete buried there, but it doesn't matter why. It just has to get jackhammered and hauled away. Miguel Gomez and his crew did the majority of the work, but Mark Stanfield and others took turns on the jackhammers.
It took 3 days to get it all out. Jackhammering is incredibly noisy and dusty. I'm sure my neighbors hated it, but we had not choice. We just had to get it done as quickly as we could.
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