Garage floor drain

[CentralIL]

I need a solution for my garage floor drain. Right now the drain (3”pvc pipe) extends out from the foundation about 3 foot into the yard. It is about 6” below where the grade of the yard will be when I am finished.

I am trying to decide whether to construct some sort of a dry well for the floor drain or tie the floor drain into the underground tile that I will be installing to drain off my gutter downspouts. There is a ditch about 50 feet from the garage that I will be running to with underground tile for the gutters.

This floor drain will see very little use. There are no issues with “code” in the area where I am building.

If I construct a dry well, how do you keep it from backing up in a large rain storm?

 

[Junkman]

The best thing to do is to have the drain go to daylight. That way, any future purchaser of the land can clearly see that there is no contamination problems. I have my footing drains connected to daylight as well as the cellar floor drains. Since my cellar is 10' below the surface of the surrounding land, and the point where it exits to daylight is another 10 or 15 feet lower than the cellar floor, it would take a flood of Katrina proportions before there would be any water backing up into my cellar. You can't guess on this, you must shoot elevation grades to know exactly what is where, so when you finish up, you will know with certainty that it was done correctly. If you are in a no freeze area, hooking the gutters to a drain is OK, but generally speaking, if you drop the water on the ground, and have everything pitched properly away from the foundation, it isn't necessary. One problem with buried gutter drains is that they clog, and clearing the clogs is a royal pain, unless you have the right type of equipment to do this. Most of us don't...

 

[kbs2244]

I agree with junkman here.
If you are draining to a ditch for the downspouts anyway, and can get the slope from the floor drain to that pipe, tie them together.
Besides the practical side, there is the avoiding of the “out of sight, out of mind“ you or others might get with a drywell.
When you can see it come out the other end of the pipe people tend to not dump oil, antifreeze, etc down the drain..

 

[Wardster]

I installed a trench drain in both bays of my garage and tied them to the same drian my downspouts are connected to. I ran them to daylight in a ditch that eventually makes its way to our pond. I make sure that nothing hazardous gets poured in the drain as it is mainly used to get rid of snow melt on our cars and to collect water anytime I wash something inside.

-Wardster

 

[CentralIL]

I installed a trench drain in both bays of my garage and tied them to the same drian my downspouts are connected to. I ran them to daylight in a ditch that eventually makes its way to our pond. I make sure that nothing hazardous gets poured in the drain as it is mainly used to get rid of snow melt on our cars and to collect water anytime I wash something inside.

-Wardster

This sounds like a good plan. Can you explain, in more detail, what you mean by a trench drain?

Thanks

 

[Wardster]

http://www.ndspro.com/cms/files/ChannelDrains_1.pdf

Sending you to the website above is the best way to explain the system. All of the materials you will need are available at Lowe's.

-Wardster