>If you have a garage/shop that is not going to be used to park wet cars...
Since you mentioned it, I have a big problem with this. My garage floor seems
to be
"randomly" pitched. When I park a wet car in the garage, water runs toward the
sheetrock wall and door to the rest of the house. I end up with a nice puddle
at the
bottom of my stairs. This problem is more severe when it's snowy. I don't
pull the car in
the garage with a foot of snow on the roof, but the undercarriage can harbor an
amazing amount of ice and slush. I have considered either cutting a groove
into the
cement or adding a piece of something to act as a sort of dam or channel. Of
course, I
don't want to be tripping on something, and I like to be able to roll jacks and
such
around. Anyone have any ideas? Leaving the car outside when wet or snowy is,
as you
might expect, "spousally" impossible.
>In the past, I have used an even simpler solution; when I replace the
>carpet in the house I cut the old carpet into easily handled strips. I
>roll as much as I need out out in my working area in the garage.
>Eventually, it gets monumentally grungy, but in the meantime I am
>comfortable.
Be careful with this... Oil soaked... or even clean carpet can be a fire
hazard. This is
especially true when parking a catalytic converter equipped car over it. I've
heard
stories of these setting carpets on fire. Burns up your car, shop, house...
could ruin
your whole day.
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Steve Trovato
trovato@media.philips.com
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