How can I avoid flooding in my garage because my driveway is sloping toward it?
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what you need is a trench drian its like a roof gutter but with a grate over it the sale it at home depot but
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raise your garage..
You need to find a way to make your driveway even or slant the other way so you might need to get ney concrete or whatever your driveway is made of.
Hope this helps!
you can put a drain grid right in front of your garage door. You will have to bust up the concrete about 4-5 inches along where it connects to you garage. place a drain tube un the channel that you just busted up and place a drain cover over it
Okay, you can't move your garage or the driveway. However, you've got 2 options, 1 cheap and 1 expensive.
The cheap answer is to make the garage door seal better. Basically, you put a big rubber strip where the door seats. It sits 1-2 inches high and will keep the water out if it's not pooling in front of the door.
The expensive option is to cut out about 8" of the driveway right in front of your garage and put in a drain all the way across. You've got to run the drain line downhill to a storm drain or where it can run out.
.for temporary you can stack some sand bags.
I had that problem at the end of my driveway. I had the city install a "speed bump" across at the start of my driveway. It acts like a dam and prevents the water from running down my driveway and into my garage.
On one side of the driveway where it meets the garage, chop a hole in the ground large enough to put a 5 gallon bucket in. Buy a sump pump, put it in the bucket, plug it in and wait till it rains, then watch it do it's job.
The rest is simple. Put a perforated cover over the bucket.
I like the drain at the garage door ( or just in front of ) with iron grating over it and the sump pump sorta like a bilge pump on a boat that turns on automatically ( Float switch activated ) that is hooked up to a drain pipe maybe washing machine if it is located in your garage .
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