How To Make A Garage Floor Drain

There are two basic types of garage floor drain which are trench and square drains.

How to make a garage floor drain.

Mix the concrete according the the mixing directions and smooth out with a trowel. 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. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology.

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. This is easier to do but you will need to make a special ramp to enter the garage. There are two ways to go about the garage drain system. As we pour the concrete we pitch each bay to the trench dra.

Pitching or sloping the entire garage floor from back to front so water runs out the door and onto the driveway is your other option. At the end of the pipe where you want the actual floor drain to be located place a can a coffee can will work over the drain hole and pour new concrete to fill in the trench you dug. One possibility is to raise the level of the garage over the existing floor. Step 1 choose a drain type.

I show you how we pour a 3 bay garage concrete floor that has 3 trench drains one for each bay. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. Depending on what brand you buy the length of it also varies. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain.

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.