rbunch4468
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I own my first garage in thirty years... just bare walls for now. Subscribed!
New garage - Must haves?
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cdestuck
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Unless I'm too late on the garage floor, wondering about floor drains. Mine were simple. Just a couple of them tied together and drain through the wall into a shale pit. But if I were to even build another garage, into the concrete guys contract, I would put the all areas of the floor must be sloped and drain water into the drains or someone doesn't get paid. I had that problem and was pita to fix.
Concrete is done, u can see the 15' trench drain, sink goes in the corner by the walk door to the house. The septic pipe on the right is going to the 2nd floor addition, we are also building living space over the current garage. The current garage will be my motorbike garage. Sorry about the sideway pic.
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I have a deep garage and the plan was to have a workshop in the back so I had them pour that area level. The workshop quickly took over the whole garage and now the slope is actually a PITA because I have to level all cabinets, workbenches, tools, etc. and many of them don't have levelers.
If I were to do it again I'd just skip the drains. I've never spilled something so badly that it ever made it to the drain. I don't live where there's much snow and there's never enough rain dripping off of vehicles to form a stream that flows to the drain.
If you, or anyone, does pitch everything to the drain at least have them pitch the threshold toward the driveway. Mine falls to the drain and when it rains the water that collects outside the garage door flows under the seal and into the drain. I'm going to fix that soon but it would been a lot less work to have it done right the first time.