Dealing with pooling water on garage floor?

[SteveL]

I have a low spot right in between the two parked cars near the overhead door that collects water and seeing that my garage is heeted, I end up with all sorts of pooling during snowy winters. Only solution that I can come up with is to squeegy the water out to the driveway but if the temps are low enough, it just freezes right at the door opening.

Filling the low area is not an option at this time as the floor is painted and I can't afford to do the whole floor over. I've thought about a sump pump type system but the hose would be run over by one of the cars every day plus, there's really no good way to run the water out side.

Any thoughts?

 

[steel 35]

I heard of a guy that complained over and over to the contractor that did his floor and the contractor finally pulled out a drill and drilled a hole though to the fill below it and asked are there anymore? My attached garage has frozen shut, thats why I did put a grade to the floor in my shop but that ***** too good luck.

 

[bazzateer]

Drill a hiole for drainage and when you can afford to get it levelled/graded to drain out the door.

 

[Kevin54]

When I have the water pooling, I use a furnace blower that I use in the summer and just turn it on towards the puddle. The high wind will dry it up in no time.

I like to keep my vehicles clean even in the winter and am lucky enough to have a carwash down the road, but I still get large chunks of slush falling off. Quite a few times I have opened the garage door, got a few big shovels full of snow and tossed it in the garage, then squeegee'd everything out. The snow was enough to absorb the water but not bad enough to freeze outside of the door. That, along with it gets all of the road grit out too.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I also have a low spot in the house garage, where I was shorted concrete. I bought a squeegee but it still pisses me off every winter when the water pools.

 

[sgmccool]

How low is it? If it's not that bad you could just add a few extra layers of paint in that area and build it up so it flow to were you need it.

 

[kbs2244]

How big and how deep?
I park my cars on carpeting scraps in the winter because of slush.
They go into the trash, where I rescued them from, when too dirty or wet.

I do have a celing fan blowing down between the cars also.
24/7 on low.
It works wonders.