Doug_N
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Hi @Doug_N - you seem very knowledgeable, I'm in Aurora, ON.
I want to install a door from the interior landing to the garage, contractor cut out the drywall, but the door is about 18 inches higher then the current landing. I've attached a picture. I want the contractor to cut the foundation down to 1 inch at the door frame to reduce the amount of step down into the house. I don't like this at all, neither cutting the foundation or the big step into the house, to the landing. Do I just bail out and re-drywall, or go ahead and do this. If I bail out on it, it's $7 thousand out lost. Your thoughts and thanks in advance, Chris.
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I did see the picture. Is the garage floor at the level of the existing cut? Cutting the foundation wall down to about 5" of the landing level would make the step down within code (code allows 7.5" but that is a lot right out of the door.
If the garage floor is at the same level as the existing cut, then there will have to be a cut in the floor of the garage to construct steps up. There is no possibility of steps up from the landing. You may have to consult with the building inspector to make sure that you have come up with a code compliant solution (assuming that this is a permitted job, and it should be). Are you both the designer and the GC for this work?
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