How To Put A Floor Drain In Concrete

Add a drain cover.

How to put a floor drain in concrete.

Install the cover and trap to finish off your new system. Decide where to place the drain such as down the middle of a garage floor or at the end of a driveway. Retrofit a floor with a floor drain by using a hammer and chisel to break away the concrete to form the drain trenches. Mark off the installation area for the trench.

After the forms have been set for the new drain system in the floor pour new concrete and allow it to dry. This is the final step and quite easy to do. Mix your concrete and smooth it with a trowel. Without a drain water just puddles and sits on the floor until it evaporates or is wiped up.

This is a 6 inch floor drain we install in our concrete floors when the customer wants a drain in their basement. If you want to make everything a consistent color you can paint the floor or add interlocking flooring. Purchase a trench drain kit of the proper size needed to complete the project. You can use it on a 2 3 or 4 inch drain pipe.

Remove the coffee can from the concrete once it has set and add a trap and drain cover to complete your work. Installing a channel drain in existing concrete. We ll set it on the pipe at the correct height and glue it in place. Make sure you bevel the area around the drain spot so that the water won t pool and will instead easily drain into it.

Despite how it may seem it s actually relatively easy to retrofit a drainage system especially with the right system. I show you how we pour a 3 bay garage concrete floor that has 3 trench drains one for each bay. As we pour the concrete we pitch each bay to the trench dra. Add a drain cover.

Use a measuring tape to determine the run for the drainage system. After the concrete has had time to set up remove the can from the new floor drain hole. Be sure to remove enough concrete from the area just before the drain pipe to fit a drain trap in line.