Flooring Over Drain

Mark around the circle and onto the flooring.

Flooring over drain.

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. 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. If the floor was flat level i would just cover it up and assume it s fine.

Lay your flooring loosely over the floor drain in the position it will be in relation to the previously laid portion of flooring. Cover the sleepers with 6 millimeter plastic and then lay down 5 8 inch plywood. The builders used a raised access hatch and have put concrete screed over the floor. 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 concrete sub floor seems flat enough for the flooring except for around the floor drain. I ve purchased vinyl plank flooring to replace the laminate and i would like to avoid covering up the floor drain. Lay the cardboard circle on top of the flooring in the position of the drain. The previous home owner covered up the existing floor drain.

I realise that i will need to have some kind of hatch so that i can access the drain if we ever need to. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. But the floor slopes towards the drain pretty aggressively. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support.

I tore up our basement flooring over the weekend that consisted of laminate. Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. Cover the plywood with 15 pound roofing felt and then. 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.

I have had a new conservatory built over an existing drain cover. 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.