Sloping a wooden floor to a drain

[keelan]

So I may have worked out a compromise with my wife that allows to add a second floor to my garage. My property is sloped and my garage is built into the hillside, so that I would have ground level access to the first floor (my current garage) at the front, and ground level access to the second floor (the proposed addition) from the back.

I have a quad that I use for plowing snow that I'd like to park in the second floor. For a variety of reasons I don't want to park it on the concrete first floor, the main reason being that it's already just about full of very heavy antique printing equipment (13,000 pounds or so) that can't go on the second floor.

I'm worried that when I park the quad in the winter, it's going to be covered in snow that's going to melt. Sloping a concrete floor to a drain is easy-peasy, but what can I do to slope a wooden floor towards a drain? Am I looking at using thin-set and building up the floor? I don't want to add a lot of thickness to the floor, that I then have to build up to keep the rest of the second floor level... ideas?

 

[Norcal]

So I may have worked out a compromise with my wife that allows to add a second floor to my garage. My property is sloped and my garage is built into the hillside, so that I would have ground level access to the first floor (my current garage) at the front, and ground level access to the second floor (the proposed addition) from the back.

I have a quad that I use for plowing snow that I'd like to park in the second floor. For a variety of reasons I don't want to park it on the concrete first floor, the main reason being that it's already just about full of very heavy antique printing equipment (13,000 pounds or so) that can't go on the second floor.

I'm worried that when I park the quad in the winter, it's going to be covered in snow that's going to melt. Sloping a concrete floor to a drain is easy-peasy, but what can I do to slope a wooden floor towards a drain? Am I looking at using thin-set and building up the floor? I don't want to add a lot of thickness to the floor, that I then have to build up to keep the rest of the second floor level... ideas?

Pour a lightweight concrete floor over the wood floor, done in upper floor apartments for noise control. Not sure how well it will work when driving equipment on it though.

 

[matt_i]

Two choices: powerful ceiling fan...or

get an EPDM sheet (pond liner) and place it on as much wood as possible, so the wood won't get wet. Lap it into the floor drain if possible, trying not to pierce it with the grate.