Add A Daylight Drain To Existing Garage Floor

When we build our new house i want to install a floor drain for the garage to handle snow melt from the vehicles.

Add a daylight drain to existing garage floor.

I am thinking about cutting 1 2 wide by 1 4 deep. The concrete will be much lighter than the surrounding concrete floor. Seems to me that this will be not only a drain for water but a drain for heat as well. The door seal works too well.

Villages don t want oil gas and other chemicals getting into waste or strongman water. This question has been in the back of my mind for quite some time and i can t find an explaination about heat loss from floor drains to daylight. I even asked if the floor drain could just go out the side and onto the grass. My dad had this feature in a garage he built and it sure was nice to not have standing puddles on.

I will heat our garage to about 45 degrees f and have 2 floor drains that run to daylight. I have this very problem in my current home. Since i will also be using a heavy floor gasket under the garage doors as a weather seal water will pool to the inside if i don t drain it. When i park my car or truck in my garage water from rain or snow drips of the car and runs all over.

Most garage floors are pitched toward the doors or a floor drain mine does not have any pitch to it so the water ends up running into my workshop in the front of the garage and also runs into the walls where it is wicked up by the sheetrock. No such a drain in the garage floor violates building codes. We are in minnesota zone 6a. Add a drain cover.

2200 sq ft single level slab on grade. Installing a floor drain in a garage. Install the cover and trap to finish off your new system. After the concrete has had time to set up remove the can from the new floor drain hole.