wawajake
Veteran Member
Has anyone had any luck making a floor drain in a existing concrete garage floor that was not designed with one ?
Now that I have a Kubota and a ATV melting the leftover snow on the floor , it is running all over with no place to go.
I live in the cold north , the garage has a floating slab with probably 4 or 5 inch concrete floor . The insultated garage is heated every few days with woodstove.
I figure at least if I had a floor drain , I could squeegee the water to it. Now I sweep it out the garage door , where it freezes in not the best place.
I figure bust up the floor in a 2ft circle at most , hopefully don't hit too much rebar. Then remove a couple feet of dirt put in some good draining gravel with a 4 inch ABS pipe to level of floor , fix the concrete floor with 4 inches of Concrete mix sloped to pipe . Done
but will I have frost problems ? Should go deeper , not at all ?
jake
Now that I have a Kubota and a ATV melting the leftover snow on the floor , it is running all over with no place to go.
I live in the cold north , the garage has a floating slab with probably 4 or 5 inch concrete floor . The insultated garage is heated every few days with woodstove.
I figure at least if I had a floor drain , I could squeegee the water to it. Now I sweep it out the garage door , where it freezes in not the best place.
I figure bust up the floor in a 2ft circle at most , hopefully don't hit too much rebar. Then remove a couple feet of dirt put in some good draining gravel with a 4 inch ABS pipe to level of floor , fix the concrete floor with 4 inches of Concrete mix sloped to pipe . Done
but will I have frost problems ? Should go deeper , not at all ?
jake