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[didntdoit]

anyone have any cheap ideas to keep water from running in the garage my brothe did the cement years ago,and he ran the driveway away from the house into the garage silly a** any ideas would help i dont want to cut and put drain in front of the door if i have to i will
thanks
jason

 

[CUSTOMMANCAVES.COM]

I don't want to cut and put drain in front of the door, but if I have to, I will.

You have to.

 

[Jack Olsen]

At least a channel, depending on the grade and the orientation of the garage and the water flow.

 

[didntdoit]

You have to.

not the answer i wanted lol
what about a raised 1/2" threshold (rubber)

 

[CUSTOMMANCAVES.COM]

not the answer i wanted lol
what about a raised 1/2" threshold (rubber)

What about 2" of rain?

 

[didntdoit]

point made thank you for your help

 

[Charles (in GA)]

The fix is readily apparent. You cannot build a dam across the front, as you won't be able to easily get stuff in and out of the garage. You have to plan for the worst, which is a torrential rain storm. Even a drain might not do it, but will probably solve the problem for 98% of the rain storms.

You can buy pre-moulded styrofoam tapered drain forms. You dig a trench, get it all nice and neat and smooth and square, and set these forms in place. Pour the concrete and pull out the forms. then you just drop in the pre made drain grates you bought with the forms. connect one or both ends to drain pipe to carry the water off to a lower area. Lot of work, sawing the drive, digging the trench for the drain and the pipes, but if done right, it solves the problem.

You will never regret spending money that fixes a problem. You will always regret spending money that half a$$es the job and doesn't fix it.

Charles

 

[Mattlt]

I'm not sure exactly what your situation looks like, but slabs can be lifted using a technique called mud jacking. Again, not sure if it will work in your situation.

Is there some way you could cut a narrow control joint in the slab before the garage to trap and divert some of the flow? Maybe off at an angle to the garage? Now that I look at the other posts I see talk of a channel to divert water.

 

[kbs2244]

You need to put in the drain.
But remember that water has to go somewhere.
You need to think about where the drain will drain into.
Otherwise it will back up and you now have a puddle.
And you have done a lot of work and not solved the problem.

 

[JamieK]

Concrete speed bump would divert most of the water to the sides. But then where is it going to go?

 

[koditten]

I don't know how much water you are trying to keep out. In front of my doors I glued down some overheaddoor threashold rubber to the concrete. My doors are on the eave side so when it would rain the water would splash and run inside a bit. With the rubber strip in place the water does not run inside any more. The rubber strip does not cause me any problem rolling dead cars or trailers over it.

I found the door threshold rubber at Harbor Frieght. Glued it down with this Vulkin adhesive. I weighted the threshold down with some scrap steel to make sure the rubber would stick to the concrete.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

Renting a gas powered wet saw, and cutting a section of your drive out is easy. Of course I don't know how bad your problem is.