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.

Floor drain installation.

A trap will help to make cleaning your drain much easier and will keep larger debris out of the drain. In this video i am replacing a floor trap in a basement. Planning drainage for new flooring. The floor trap is part of the drain assembly of a basement drain.

This trap is a standard three inc. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. Installing a floor drain in a garage. Lay out the pipes in place and install the drainage cover and trap.

We install twice as many of these concrete floor drains versus the trench drains. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. A square garage floor drain these also come round is a simple very easy to install floor drain.

If you are building a new floor then plan out where the drainage will go. Check out our collection of commercial drains designed around functional practicality catering to residential commercial and heavy industrial use. 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.

They are very inexpensive and much faster easier to put in place. Commercial floor drains from zurn provides a complete line floor drains that are durable and easy to install.