water runoff to garage door

[mbaker76]

Moved into a different house, old garage floor had floor drains, new one has sloped floor to the door. Water and slush runs off to the door and gets trapped and pools at the ends of the door where it transitions to wall framing. What is the best way to get water out and at the same time keep from rotting the wall framing and trim that extends down to the floor.

There is a concrete stem wall about 12" above the floor, but then there is a 2x wood jamb and trim board that extend down to the slab and driveway level. It looks to me like any water that runs down to the recessed slab area just gets trapped between the door seal and wood jamb and has nowhere to go?

any thoughts or suggestions to get water out and keep framing from deteriorating.

 

[pattenp]

Tough nut to crack. Short of cutting concrete and installing a drain is to re-trim the door using composite trim or cut the existing trim up off the floor a tad. When my garage door was trimmed I requested all rot proof materials, composite and PVC. I've dealt with too much rotted trim in my life.

 

[info2x]

As much as I like those door step downs I do see a lot of them that end up being fairly flat which causes the water to not drain properly.

Since tearing up the concrete would be unreasonable replacing the wood with something that won't rot is probably your best bet. If you really want wood cutting it off a little before it hits the concrete and filling it with silicone will probably go a long way. If you replace with wood make sure that underside is at the very least primed so water doesn't wick as easily.

 

[larry4406]

PattenP's response is what we do in the new homes my company builds in northern VA and MD. We have the same concrete weather lip detail you have. We stop the wood framing about 1" from the slab. Then pvc trim materials project past this and die into the concrete.

 

[Richard Cranium]

you could cut lines in the concrete so that the water went under the door and out, instead of against it.