How To Make A Garage Floor Drain

Depending on what brand you buy the length of it also varies.

How to make a garage floor drain.

The concrete contractor needs to create large shallow funnels. One possibility is to raise the level of the garage over the existing floor. You can install one section in the middle or since it comes with sections you can connect it up till the length of your garage. Step 1 choose a drain type.

There are two ways to go about the garage drain system. I show you how we pour a 3 bay garage concrete floor that has 3 trench drains one for each bay. As we pour the concrete we pitch each bay to the trench dra. Trench drains come in sections that can be connected with each other.

The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. This is easier to do but you will need to make a special ramp to enter the garage. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. Installing this kind of drain after you build the garage involves cutting through the concrete slab digging the trench installing the drain channel and pouring new concrete to refinish the slab.

It s very important to make sure the tops of the floor drains are about 2 inches below the primary level surface of the garage slab. A concrete floor drain is really quite simple to install your first step is to decide what kind of floor drain you want. Alternatively you can dig the existing floor with a power drill. There are two basic types of garage floor drain which are trench and square drains.

Mix the concrete according the the mixing directions and smooth out with a trowel.