Flooring Over Drain

The ideal way to put down a wood floor over concrete that is subject to dampness is to first put down pressure 2 by 4 inch sleepers or lengths of wood on the floor that are spaced 16 inches apart on center.

Flooring over drain.

The concrete sub floor seems flat enough for the flooring except for around the floor drain. I m concerned the snap together flooring light buckle or come apart because of the slope. I realise that i will need to have some kind of hatch so that i can access the drain if we ever need to. Lay your flooring loosely over the floor drain in the position it will be in relation to the previously laid portion of flooring.

Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. I have had a new conservatory built over an existing drain cover. Mark around the circle and onto the flooring. Cover the plywood with 15 pound roofing felt and then.

Cover the sleepers with 6 millimeter plastic and then lay down 5 8 inch plywood. Floor drain is not in use but there is laundry in the area so i did not want to cover up in case of catastrophic on a water line. The builders used a raised access hatch and have put concrete screed over the floor. If the floor was flat level i would just cover it up and assume it s fine.

Lay the cardboard circle on top of the flooring in the position of the drain. It s flat ish for most of the room but the 2 feet or so around the drain are sloped quite a bit. But the floor slopes towards the drain pretty aggressively. The inspiration for this column came from unexpected comments about a brief mention of garage floor drains in my december 1 2019 askthebuilder newsletter.

The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. Many basement floor drains tie directly to the home s sewer system but in some communities local building codes require floor drains to run to a sump pit where a pump lifts the water to the exterior surface of the house. I now want to lay laminate flooring to finish it. I ve purchased vinyl plank flooring to replace the laminate and i would like to avoid covering up the floor drain.

Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. The previous home owner covered up the existing floor drain. Remember that laminate flooring like swiss krono usa s laminate wood flooring is a floating floor it will expand and contract as temperature and other conditions change.