Garage Floors

Summary: Garage floors should either slope to allow for water runoff or have a drain. Garage floors with a drain may require a separator to meet building code compliance. Sloping the floor is the cheapest way to construct concrete garage floors.

Carl,
Do you recommend putting a garage floor drain or just have them slope the garage out? We live in the Midwest (four seasons)...Tony"

Hi Tony,

A floor drain in garage floors, depending on locale, will probably require building code compliance and building code inspection and approval.

One may be forced to install a separator in garage floors that ...Read the rest Here.