How To Replace A Garage Floor Drain

Ask a building department plumbing inspector about the requirements for replacing a floor drain in your location.

How to replace a garage floor drain.

The floor drains in older homes were piped in almost all cases with a simple p trap just like you might find under your bathroom sink. The u shaped pipe under the drain created a water seal but. The drain also allows you to wash your garage floor without the cleaning mixture collecting on the floor or spilling onto your driveway and leaving behind dirty residue. There are two main types of garage floor drains.

A garage can be a messy place and keeping it clean is much less complicated if you can simply wash down the floor and allow the water to run into a floor drain. Dealing with the floor drain cover isn t a task you have to do every day. When the time arrives that you must remove the cover to clean out or maintain the drain a rusted cover can pose a challenge. Trench drains come in sections.

The floor drain must be fully capable of removing water from the surrounding floor space which is usually a basement or garage floor. Installing a garage floor drain is a convenient way of controlling any water that drips off your car and onto the concrete floor. Because it doesn t require daily attention your floor drain cover can become rusted without you even noticing. Trench and square or round.