Minimum Slope For Garage Floor

I mean you can add an additional layer of material to the garage floor and slope garage floor from high to low.

Minimum slope for garage floor.

Garagetips 101 offers at a nominal price a set of single car garage plans 12 x 24 consisting of 6 sheets of drawings on 11 x 17 sheet sizes with details that show how the floor slope in the type 1 garage foundation is accomplished. We could find no reference to recommended slopes when trench drains are used in a floor. 1 4 a foot is a lot. It is usually 1 8 to 1 4 per foot.

Here a more typical slope would be 2 5 or 3. They are available in pdf format and can be used for own project of building a garage. Of course we don t have to deal with heavy snow etc. On a 20 deep garage concrete sloping toward the big door that would be 5 and 6 on a 24 deep garage.

Then the garage slab slopes to the big garage door maybe 2 5. Fyi having a wash machine in the garage is probably more or less exclusive to the deep south. The recommended slope for flat roofs is usually 1 1 8 inch per foot or 2 1 4 inch per foot according to the professional handbook of building construction published by john wiley sons new york. Use 1 4 to 1 8 per foot slope to the drains and you will not have a problem.

Entry to the house from the garage is at the back of the house. In the winter the runoff from whatever snow is on it just pools on the floor in the garage. Here is the citation from the international residential code irc. The building code requires that a garage floor be sloped towards the door but does not specify a minimum slope.

And i was wondering if there s some way to slope the garage floor without completely rebuilding the garage.