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Also curious. My garage turns in to a pond from snow melt. I've been using a huge shop broom to push it out which isn't the best but it works.
If you keep the snow off the driveway, won't that help?
Digging a ditch in concrete? Basically talking a total new driveway.
Digging a ditch in concrete? Basically talking a total new driveway.
I would think you could pretty easily do a french drain type situation, with a grate on top of it. Depending on weather or not you could direct the water to one side or the other of the driveway. If you have to tie it into actually plumbing to run it to the street it would be a pretty big job and yeah, basically you are better off starting over on the driveway at that point.
My house and garage were built in the 70's and I fought melting snow and puddles all the time.
I picked the lowest spot in my garage floor where the water usually ponded up the worst and I cut 2'x3' hole in the floor. I had the local welding shop build me an angle iron drive-over grate to put over the hole.
I excavated the dirt (by shovel) as far down as I possibly could under the garage floor and filled the hole up with clean white rock. Any water that makes it to the hole just seeps into the ground under my garage over time, I've never had it fill up.
I had a couple of other areas that I was afraid weren't going to drain on their own so I took the concrete saw and cut two channels about 1" deep that led to the new hole. That seems to work pretty well, I was afraid they would fill up with sand and dirt but I haven't had any issue. I usually clean them out in the summer with the shop vac and I've gotten along just fine.
This was a pretty cheap and effective way of getting rid of the water.
It works fine until one day your garages falls into a sink hole that you created
Actually sounds like a decent idea. I may do that in my garage.
I do keep snow off of the driveway but snow drifts in the wind, chunks fall off of cars, and there is always a bit of left over snow hanging around.
I'm not talking about tearing out and pouring a new driveway - I want this.
Weren't you buying a new house or is this at your new house? If you haven't moved yet and still plan to I wouldn't even mess with it.
I do keep snow off of the driveway but snow drifts in the wind, chunks fall off of cars, and there is always a bit of left over snow hanging around.
I'm not talking about tearing out and pouring a new driveway - I want this.
Thats exactly what I have planned for my driveway
I built one for my dad a few years ago. Cut a trench in the low part of the driveway, filled it with rock and continued that into a low part of the yard where the real fun began. I tiled that to the backyard where we had a steep drop that led to creek. Took a long weekend to fully complete, but worked awesome.
A leaf blower is the fastest, easiest way to handle puddles in a garage. Just blow them out the big door(s).
M-town, I have a friend whose drive slopes down to his garage. He had his contractor do what you want when he added the garage. It works very well, even with a big rain.
M-town, I have a friend whose drive slopes down to his garage. He had his contractor do what you want when he added the garage. It works very well, even with a big rain.
That drain makes sense. I thought you meant from garage to street and basically a wash way.
In my case the driveway slopes toward the street just fine but the attached garage has a slight slope toward the house. Any ideas if something like this would work in this case?
Before I pull in I use a lath to peal the snow out of the wheel wells. Lath so it doesn't scratch anything and it's long and narrow enough to reach and peal. Lots of snow/slush stuck in there if driving home in any kind of storm. Really keeps the puddles down in the garage especially since my tuck-under garage generally stays above freezing. Also have a big floor squeegee to push the melt out the door.
No issue this year since it has hardly snowed here. Haven't even fired the snowblower other then a test run in November to see if they would start.
No issue this year since it has hardly snowed here. Haven't even fired the snowblower other then a test run in November to see if they would start.
No I would want to put this in the front of my garage where the house and garage meet. I didn't do a good job of explaining that in the previous post. Hopefully that makes more sense now.
Plus it makes a great place to dump used oil! Seriously though isn't it a code violation in most places to put a drain in a garage floor? Might be an issue if you ever sell the house.
Or freezes and balls up the garage floor....LOLIt works fine until one day your garages falls into a sink hole that you createdActually sounds like a decent idea. I may do that in my garage.
If the concrete is old or bad and there is a slope away on either side just remove the pads immediately in front and revise the slope to create a slight draw to drain the water away. In other words, a slight slope down from the garage door and also a slope down from the new/old concrete interface meeting in a little concrete "ditch" that slopes to the area where it can drain away. This is how my brother's house is.
FWIW, installing a floor drain in a garage without a trap (that can be separately cleaned out) for containing oil/gas/petroleum is illegal - environmental reasons. Depending on your municipality, you could run into big issues when you go to sell your house if you don't do it correctly.
No sure the regs for a drain in the driveway, but I think that would be fine - similar to a storm drain in the street.
No sure the regs for a drain in the driveway, but I think that would be fine - similar to a storm drain in the street.