Driveway slopes down to garage -problem?

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Still dithering about this house. Went for second viewing last night. I like the house, but didn't clock how steep the slope on the drive was on first viewing. It's not vertical, but it's a proper hillstart to get off it.

Anyone got experience of living with a drive like this? Am bit concerned about winter tbh. Also irrational fear of car squashing DS

My friend has a drive like this and she did have big problems getting off it when it was icy. Also, she had problems with flooding as there was no drain at the bottom of the drive.

Thanks rusty, that's what's bothering me. I can't really see us getting up early to clear drive before work at 6am in winter, which i guess we would have to do.

Am also a bit concerned about cars moving on slope if handbrake slips.

I hate hate hate househunting....

My parents have lived in a house with a drive like this for the past 35-odd years. So far as I am aware they never had any serious problems in icy weather, or with drainage.

However, I do recall it being a bit of a nightmare when I was learning to drive and having to master the reverse-hill-start-round-corner manoeuvre

Yes distemper, I parked on the drive last night and had to master that pretty sharpish, with vendors watching

You can always bulk buy grit if the house is "the one". You might find flooding a problem though, it can sometimes be rectified by fitting a long drain (whose name escapes me - erco?) in front of the garage door. This needs to be tied into a land drain though and may will obviously involve digging so may damage whatever finish the drive is in.

Of course if the garage looks and smells dry this might not be an issue at all.

I also hate house hunting, we moved in September after a few months of looking earlier in the year and a huuuge wait for paper work. On the upside after 3 cold months in a 4 birth caravan with 3 children, wwe now have our dream home. I keep saying I'll put pictures up, but never seem to get round to it!

When we were looking we got errible rose tinted glasses through sheer panic, so found it useful to take an impartial friend with us. I dread to think where we would have ended up if it wasn't for his reality checks.

The ice problem might depend on what the surface is like - I've never seen my friend's drive but she was very late for work once because she couldn't get off her drive in the ice/snow and had to take a bus Now she parks on the road if snow is forecast...

We have a steep drive. The only time we have had problems is when there is a heavy snow fall and we can't get out. But we live at the top of a steep hill as well which soon becomes impossible to drive up so the car is better stuck on the drive.
Very rearly if the wind and very heavy rain are in the wrong direction some rain water gets under the garage door too.
Never have problems with car rolling with the handbrake on because we leave car in gear.

I used to live in a flat with the garage underneath and a steep driveway down to it. There was only one day in 5 years when I couldn't get up the drive. I could have gritted the drive but I went sledging instead.

Sheer panic pantaloons - yep, that just about sums up how I feel about it all....

Really wish I knew what to do!

Thanks to all who posted - we've decided against the house (not just because of the driveway - that was more of a final straw thing I think!).

So, back to Rightmove....