How To Make 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.

How to make a garage floor drain. Trench drains come in sections that can be connected with each other. 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. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. Step 1 choose a drain type.

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. Mix the concrete according the the mixing directions and smooth out with a trowel. 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. Depending on what brand you buy the length of it also varies.

Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. 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. One possibility is to raise the level of the garage over the existing floor. I show you how we pour a 3 bay garage concrete floor that has 3 trench drains one for each bay.

There are two ways to go about the garage drain system. There are two basic types of garage floor drain which are trench and square drains. A concrete floor drain is really quite simple to install your first step is to decide what kind of floor drain you want. The concrete contractor needs to create large shallow funnels.

As we pour the concrete we pitch each bay to the trench dra.