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Originally Posted by Pete'sMH
So my community HOA prohibits keeping RVs at the house but of course I have it there before and after each trip for loading, cleanup and maintenance items. Usually I park it in the driveway when Its there to keep the street open for traffic. But a friend of mine who builds houses told me I shouldn’t because most modern residential driveways are not strong enough. Cars weigh maybe 4000 lbs but my motorhome is like 4 or 5 times that. I haven’t seen any damage or cracking but maybe my friend has a point. Any enlightened opinions from my friends here?
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Pete,
I recently retired after working 50 years in the concrete construction industry. Over half of that time specializing in concrete mix design and quality assurance. The building codes I am familiar with are designed to insure residential driveways will stand up to regular automobile traffic with occasional local delivery truck traffic. Assuming your builder complied with the codes, I would expect that occasional parking your RV on your driveway to load and unload would not cause problems. With that said, if I were going to construct an RV parking pad, I would use 6” thick concrete on well compacted base aggregate, not the 4” of concrete found in most driveways. I would also use rubber, wooden or plastic pads between the RV leveling jack’s steel feet and the concrete.
Tom
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