Floor Drain Installation

Lay out the pipes in place and install the drainage cover and trap.

Floor drain installation. 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. If you are building a new floor then plan out where the drainage will go. A square garage floor drain these also come round is a simple very easy to install floor drain. Planning drainage for new flooring.

In this video i am replacing a floor trap in a basement. Check out our collection of commercial drains designed around functional practicality catering to residential commercial and heavy industrial use. Commercial floor drains from zurn provides a complete line floor drains that are durable and easy to install. A trap will help to make cleaning your drain much easier and will keep larger debris out of the drain.

This trap is a standard three inc. Find a location for the floor drain. They are very inexpensive and much faster easier to put in place. If the floor is flat and level you may choose to locate the drain in a certain spot with the expectation that later on you will create a sloped floor.

Then install the membrane over the mortar bed and over the drain base and cut out a section over the drain hole in order to attach the center part of the drain on which the weep holes are located. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. Installing a floor drain in a garage. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter.

If your laundry room floor slopes to a central point that is the logical place to place the drain. We install twice as many of these concrete floor drains versus the trench drains.