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.

Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. Lay your flooring loosely over the floor drain in the position it will be in relation to the previously laid portion of flooring. I ve purchased vinyl plank flooring to replace the laminate and i would like to avoid covering up the floor drain. I m concerned the snap together flooring light buckle or come apart because of the slope.

It s flat ish for most of the room but the 2 feet or so around the drain are sloped quite a bit. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support. If the floor was flat level i would just cover it up and assume it s fine. 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.

Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. 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. I now want to lay laminate flooring to finish it. I did use some of the double side tape of for the plank that has the drain hole cut out just to help hold it around the drain.

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 builders used a raised access hatch and have put concrete screed over the floor. The house i grew up in had a garage floor drain. 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.

Cover the plywood with 15 pound roofing felt and then. But the floor slopes towards the drain pretty aggressively. I tore up our basement flooring over the weekend that consisted of laminate. I realise that i will need to have some kind of hatch so that i can access the drain if we ever need to.

Cover the sleepers with 6 millimeter plastic and then lay down 5 8 inch plywood. Mark around the circle and onto the flooring. I have had a new conservatory built over an existing drain cover.