Floor Drain Installation

Installing a floor drain in a garage.

Floor drain installation.

A trap will help to make cleaning your drain much easier and will keep larger debris out of the drain. Then install the membrane over the mortar bed and over the drain base and cut out a section over the drain hole in order to attach the center part of the drain on which the weep holes are located. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. In this video i am replacing a floor trap in a basement.

Smith manufactures a full line of floor drains and devices that are easy to install and cost effective including variations for heavy duty drains with adjustable strainer heads special purpose drains traffic drains planting area drains trap seal primers devices and more to suit any construction need. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. A garage can be a messy place and keeping it clean is much less complicated if you can simply wash down the floor and allow the water to run into a floor drain.

Check out our collection of commercial drains designed around functional practicality catering to residential commercial and heavy industrial use. If your laundry room floor slopes to a central point that is the logical place to place the drain. This trap is a standard three inc. They are very inexpensive and much faster easier to put in place.

Planning drainage for new flooring. A square garage floor drain these also come round is a simple very easy to install floor drain. If you are building a new floor then plan out where the drainage will go. If the floor is flat and level you may choose to locate the drain in a certain spot with the expectation that later on you will create a sloped floor.

We install twice as many of these concrete floor drains versus the trench drains. Lay out the pipes in place and install the drainage cover and trap.