channeling water

[purpony]

Looking for some ideas....

I have a heated attached 2 car garage that i park my daily driven vehicles in. Im in CT so the cars get snow covered all winter long. I try my best to get as much snow off them as possible but that not always the case. The when the snow melts i get water everywhere. Most times i back the cars out and use a large squeegee to get the water out but I always have to make sure there is nothing on the floor so i doesnt get wet.

I ended up buying one of those park smart pads that works pretty well but its a pain in the to take apart and store in the summer and i can use a jack or anything during the winter.

I was wondering if anyone has cut some type of channel around their parking spots in their garage to direct channel water out and not allow it to puddle....

 

[RaceDeck1]

We have had many customers channel their concrete floor to help drain water from deep low spots within their floor, then cover with RaceDeck and you never see it

 

[Dan_inthewind]

HEY! purpony stop parking in my garage

I have the very same problem. I live in Ontario Canada.

Have to squeegee all the time as I like my floor clean.

Thinking of a tiled floor but wishing for a RaceDeck.

 

[Freefall_Doug]

Fellow CT poster here. I have the same issue myself!

My garage is a mess with all the snow melt in the winter. It seems to stick around for a long time too.

If I was starting from scratch I would have designed some sort of a drainage system in to the garage.

It will be interesting if any one has any retrofit suggestions.

 

[slickgt1]

NYCer here. Had massive issues with rain and snow. Puddles were not even under the car, but everywhere else, and no where near to the exit. Was a massive pain in the ***. Corrected pitch while setting tile. No more issues. I now hose down my floor just for the heck of it.

 

[Flooring For Garage]

I still believe it should be code to have a 2" pitch back-to-front on newly poured floors in northern climates... It would certainly help with puddling snow-melt and still be subtle enough a pitch that it would not cause other problems.

Unfortunately, short of resurfacing your floor, I don't know that you could do much more than you already are...

 

[Freefall_Doug]

Slick,

What was involved with reseting the pitch of the floor during the tile job?

 

[holland_patrick]

I did a cheep fix when i had a garage at my ex's house.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=370

I would use racedeck now as I do work in my new garage and know i would not have been able to use a jack on that stuck but it kept everything above the puddles and dry.

In my new on racedeack will be going down once i can afford it

 

[slickgt1]

Slick,

What was involved with reseting the pitch of the floor during the tile job?

Check out post 2. You can see what I did. Post after show as it progressed.

Yea there are a lot of pics. So wait till they load.

 

[cbr1000]

I've got the same problem during the winter in Missouri... puddles under the rear of the cars. Drives me crazy, lot's of winter squeegy use.

 

[66HertzClone]

I had this problem until I put the Racedeck tiles down. I used the Freeflow tiles under both of the daily drivers and have never looked back. I did use the shop vac this spring to pull up the sand/grit that had accululated in the slots of the tiles. Sorry for the crappy cell hpone picture.