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.

Cover the sleepers with 6 millimeter plastic and then lay down 5 8 inch plywood. The previous home owner covered up the existing floor drain. But the floor slopes towards the drain pretty aggressively. Lay your flooring loosely over the floor drain in the position it will be in relation to the previously laid portion of flooring.

The builders used a raised access hatch and have put concrete screed over the floor. Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse. If the floor was flat level i would just cover it up and assume it s fine. The house i grew up in had a garage 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. Mark around the circle and onto the flooring. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support. 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. Garage floor drain ideas time tested technology. I tore up our basement flooring over the weekend that consisted of laminate.

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 concrete sub floor seems flat enough for the flooring except for around the 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. It s flat ish for most of the room but the 2 feet or so around the drain are sloped quite a bit.

I m concerned the snap together flooring light buckle or come apart because of the slope. Lay the cardboard circle on top of the flooring in the position of the drain. I have had a new conservatory built over an existing drain cover.