Pouring Garage Floor With Drain

Have new residential construction with attached garage.

Pouring garage floor with drain.

The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. Remember you ll need to dig beneath the wall to reach the trenches you dug out earlier to connect the two. Concretefloor garagefloor howtopourconcretefloors in this video i m pouring a concrete floor for a new garage. Garage floors are usually poured 4 to 6 inches thick.

Have read codes that garage floor must slope out or to a drain. I drained the livewell from my boat in garage floor. Installing a floor drain in a garage s concrete slab floor is best done when pouring the slab. The dimensions of the garage are 16 x 22.

Once the drain is installed in the garage then pouring the concrete can be targeted towards creating the proper slope or pitch for moisture to have a clear path to the drain. Floor is completely flat without any slope to drain or towards door. Pour the new concrete over your garage floor to fill the trench you dug but ensure that none will seep into your new drain hole you can place a coffee canister over. Needing some info on garage floor drain.

If you are pouring. Rebar may be used for slabs requiring more support. If the concrete is already set in your garage the garage floor most likely slopes towards the driveway. For the drain to function optimally the slab must slope toward the drain to direct water to the.

Shower floors laundry areas entryways garage floors and patios are all areas where the floor may have a drain built in to help the floor drain water to a specific point. The builder installed what he identifies as floor drain. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. Dig up the concrete garage floor to make way for the new floor drain.

In the case shown wire was used as reinforcement. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. Installing a garage floor drain is a convenient way of controlling any water that drips off your car and onto the concrete floor. Garage floor drains can be trench drains.