This past year my daughter and son in law built a new home on mount desert island maine.
Ky building code for garage with floor drain.
Floor is completely flat without any slope to drain or towards door.
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The builder installed what he identifies as floor drain.
I specified that floor drains be put in the garage and made sure with the local building inspector that.
A floor drain or two in my garage would prevent this madness.
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.
All garage floor drains must be connected according to the minnesota plumbing code local building codes and ordinances.
Have read codes that garage floor must slope out or to a drain.
Some cities and towns require a special filtration or catch basin oil separator system to filter the water coming out the end of the drainage pipe especially if any oil dripping from a vehicle is mixed with the water.
This should be close to what the residential code says section r309 garages and carports r309 1 floor surface garage floor surfaces shall be of approved noncombustible material.
However the mpca underground disposal policy requires that no floor drain effluent can be disposed of on site either through drywells or on site sewage treatment systems.
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Silly building code revisions they re not always right.
Have new residential construction with attached garage.
Installing a floor drain in a garage.
The area of floor used for parking of automobiles or other vehicles shall be sloped to facilitate the movement of liquids to a drain or toward the main vehicle entry.
Needing some info on garage floor drain.
If you re building a new garage check with your local code enforcement officer to make sure you install the floor drain according to his her guidelines.
The reasoning i m told was that spilled gasoline and oil would cause explosions death and destruction.