Add A Daylight Drain To Existing Garage Floor

We are in minnesota zone 6a.

Add a daylight drain to existing garage floor.

No such a drain in the garage floor violates building codes. 2200 sq ft single level slab on grade. When we build our new house i want to install a floor drain for the garage to handle snow melt from the vehicles. If you want to make everything a consistent color you can paint the floor or add interlocking flooring.

When i park my car or truck in my garage water from rain or snow drips of the car and runs all over. Seems to me that this will be not only a drain for water but a drain for heat as well. I will heat our garage to about 45 degrees f and have 2 floor drains that run to daylight. Add a drain cover.

The door seal works too well. Installing a floor drain in a garage. I even asked if the floor drain could just go out the side and onto the grass. 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.

I am thinking about cutting 1 2 wide by 1 4 deep. After the concrete has had time to set up remove the can from the new floor drain hole. Villages don t want oil gas and other chemicals getting into waste or strongman water. My dad had this feature in a garage he built and it sure was nice to not have standing puddles on.

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. 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. Attached garage addition ideas attached garage attached garage plans garage addition two car garage attached to existing house golf cart garage plans garage with shed attached garage beside main house designe ideas for singe car add on garage attaching a garage to existing home. The concrete will be much lighter than the surrounding concrete floor.