(September 21, 2017 at 4:14 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 21, 2017 at 2:05 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Not if you're thinking "I need this part of the house to stand up to a flood." Concrete with rebar instead of blocks. You could have a two car enclosed garage and still have room for a glassed-in/screen-in area that opened directly onto the lawn by using pillars instead of a continuous wall.
Wouldn't there be waterproofing issues with the garage door?
The point is to get the house above the water. Think of stilts with a more ambitious plan. I know of a two story house built this way just outside St. Louis County. He has boats hung from the ceiling of the garage, they can be dropped by one person. The cars would be moved out if there's time, but he's read to write them off if the house comes through okay. (He survived a "hundred year flood" in '08, but the water got to the tops of his doors. That inspired the rebuild.)
