Whose idea was it......

[MossRoad]

I think we get a lot more snow here, due to the lake.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

my garage floor is sloped to the door, was required here. I have never had enough runoff for the water to get to the underside of the door, that could freeze it down.

 

[bigtiller]

When I open the door, if I have 3" or more of snow against the door and drive in or out, the snow will fall where the rubber threshold meets the floor. That is all it takes for the door to freeze to the floor just a tiny bit. After many cycles, the threshold will be loose. So before the door gets closed i shovel the first 6" away from the door so it won't freeze down.

I think my problem is to much heat or maybe to little heat. I heat my garage continuously to 42 degrees. That seams to be enough to melt frost, ice and snow on the door but not enough to melt the snow under the rubber threshold.

That is why i would have concerns with forcing water under the door and not down a drain.

 

[MossRoad]

I think there's your problem. Our garage isn't heated. I don't know anyone that has a heated garage, for that matter.

 

[Egon]

Check the local building codes for an attached garage. Even the type of door may be regulated.

 

[fidowanttobe]

Code up here is plumbed to the septic. The floor drain in my heated tuck under garage is a box aprox 2'x2'x2' deep with a trap outside the box. Lots of silt in the bottom before it stops up, then I vacuum it out. Unheated detached garage has drains to the outside that is not to code as they wanted it to the septic also but grandfathered. Those doors always froze down even tho they face south and east. Now I spray the thresholds with "Incredible Orange Spray On Anti-Ice" and it helps tremendously. My $0.02

 

[k0ua]

I suspect you northern guys, face a lot of things we "pinapple crew" down here don't even think about.

 

[KennyG]

My garage has floor drains that go to gravity drain system and the sewer - no sump. I have no idea if it would meet code now. Some places simply do not allow garage drains because of the oil/gas potential. Others require an oil separator in the system. A few years back I helped someone pour a garage floor. He put in the drain and skimmed over it with concrete for the inspection, then chipped it out later. It was the only way he could have a garage drain.

 

[fidowanttobe]

GASP! Surely you jest! He fooled the government?? I really don't understand their thinking sometimes. Like I am going to use my floor drain as a oil changing/anti-freeze pit. Not to mention, dump my old gas down there too.

 

[bigtiller]

Check the local building codes for an attached garage. Even the type of door may be regulated.

There is no building code here. The people don't want to pay for everything involved with making and enforcing one. But the local contractors follow the code, as best as they can recollect, from the next county over and buildings are pretty high quality even without any government help.

Funny thing,,, I live in the country. So I applied for a county building permit to build my house. They said I don't need one, I need a city permit. So I applied for a city permit and was told I didn't need one. I knew I couldn't build a house without one. I got the attention of the city manager and asked him what is wrong with this picture. It took him 2 days to get it all straightened out with the city and the county.

I had to go to the city to get a county permit and a copy went to both governments. That may be another reason we don't have a building code.