Add A Daylight Drain To Existing Garage Floor

When we build our new house i want to install a floor drain for the garage to handle snow melt from the vehicles.

Add a daylight drain to existing garage floor.

My dad had this feature in a garage he built and it sure was nice to not have standing puddles on. Add a drain cover. Attached garage addition ideas attached garage attached garage plans garage addition two car garage attached to existing house golf cart garage plans garage with shed attached garage beside main house designe ideas for singe car add on garage attaching a garage to existing home. When i park my car or truck in my garage water from rain or snow drips of the car and runs all over.

After the concrete has had time to set up remove the can from the new floor drain hole. I will heat our garage to about 45 degrees f and have 2 floor drains that run to daylight. Since i will also be using a heavy floor gasket under the garage doors as a weather seal water will pool to the inside if i don t drain it. No such a drain in the garage floor violates building codes.

The door seal works too well. Seems to me that this will be not only a drain for water but a drain for heat as well. I even asked if the floor drain could just go out the side and onto the grass. The concrete will be much lighter than the surrounding concrete floor.

Most garage floors are pitched toward the doors or a floor drain mine does not have any pitch to it so the water ends up running into my workshop in the front of the garage and also runs into the walls where it is wicked up by the sheetrock. I have this very problem in my current home. If you want to make everything a consistent color you can paint the floor or add interlocking flooring. Installing a floor drain in a garage.

Install the cover and trap to finish off your new system. 2200 sq ft single level slab on grade. I am thinking about cutting 1 2 wide by 1 4 deep. We are in minnesota zone 6a.