My Garage Floor Slope Is Too Much

The apron extends the width of the garage floor.

My garage floor slope is too much.

Everything i ve read says slope it 1 8 to 1 4 inch per foot toward the garage door. 7 inches sounds like too much both visually and from a walkability standpoint so the most i m going to consider is 3 5. The average person can sense if a floor slopes 1 inch in 10 feet and sloping floors or sagging floors are often one of the warning signs that structural engineers look for when analyzing a house. We have an attached two car garage with the size of about 21 x 21.

Getting ready to pour a garage floor slab. Although most floors slope it is important to know how much and why. 4 drain pipes should be about 1 4 inch per foot. The apron in front of the garage smooths the transition for the vehicle from the driveway into the garage and acts as a barrier to debris and moisture.

A little more won t hurt but too much will. One side is about 4 5 and the other side is around 5 4. If too little slope even if the water drains it won t be self cleaning i e. The garage is 28 ft deep so 1 8 to 1 4 inches per foot means the slab shoub be 3 5 to 7 inches higher at the end opposite the door.

It seems to be one side of garage floor is a little bit tilt towards the wall which means on one side the middle. Hello this is a very dump question. At a very rare occasion i measured the slope on both sides of the garage. 1 attach one end of the string level to the wall of the garage furthest from the main door.

Stuff heavy stuff will tend to settle out and not move along as fast as it should jon. Determining the angle of your floor s slope provides a simple method to level work surfaces in the garage.