Floor Drain Installation

In this video i am replacing a floor trap in a basement.

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. They are very inexpensive and much faster easier to put in place. Check out our collection of commercial drains designed around functional practicality catering to residential commercial and heavy industrial use. Installing a floor drain in a garage.

This trap is a standard three inc. 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. 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. Find a location for the floor drain. Smith manufactures a full line of floor drains and devices that are easy to install and cost effective including variations for heavy duty drains with adjustable strainer heads special purpose drains traffic drains planting area drains trap seal primers devices and more to suit any construction need. A square garage floor drain these also come round is a simple very easy to install floor drain.

We install twice as many of these concrete floor drains versus the trench drains. If you are building a new floor then plan out where the drainage will go. A trap will help to make cleaning your drain much easier and will keep larger debris out of the drain. Lay out the pipes in place and install the drainage cover and trap.

Planning drainage for new flooring. The floor trap is part of the drain assembly of a basement drain.