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    Another option, just don't visit the in laws.
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    Yeah, that'd be nice =)

    A board+plank ramp may be a solution... Thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by nermal View Post
    Yeah, that'd be nice =)

    A board+plank ramp may be a solution... Thanks
    Or take the 125TDI when going to the out-laws instead?

    My neighbour across the road has an interesting solution - he had the dip filled in with a line of ashphalt about a foot wide, with a channel about 2 inches square cut out so the stormwater can still get past the driveway. THere's nothing over the groove, so it sort of tends to fill up with leaves, but it seems to have solved the problem.

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    Ok, there are a few things.

    First, approach your local council as they are required to provide a kerb crossing to specific dimensions regarding approach and departure angles. If it does not meet their requirements, they have to do something.

    If it is within their requirements (and make sure they provide you with the relevant construction drawings), then there are a couple of things you can do.

    You could have some steel plates made up that are bolted on your side of the kerb and sit over the kerb channel.

    You can place a length of treated timber in the kerb channel itself and possibly bolt it at one or both ends.

    You can buy some lengths of speed humps and bolt them to the kerb channel.

    You can buy a length of heavy steel pipe (galvanised of course), and bolt it to the kerb channel.

    The reason you have the problem is that the wheel drops into the kerb and what these pieces do is stop that.

    I make these suggestions as my brother's partner's son was in a similar situation in the ACT. Despite the kerbing not meeting the ACT government's requirements, they refused to do anything, but hinted they'd turn a blind eye if one of these solutions were implemented and the gutters kept clear so that water did not flood elsewhere.
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