Does Your Garage Flood

Closed Thread
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 08-23-2019, 01:03 PM
jcvdd1 jcvdd1 is offline
Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 95
Thanks: 1
Thanked 14 Times in 8 Posts
Default Does Your Garage Flood

Greetings-

In The Villages Of Mc Clure or in any section of The Villages, has anyone experienced their garage floors flooding / getting wet after a heavy rain storm ?

Any suggestions on preventing rain water from entering the garage floor area ?

Thanks again ----
  #2  
Old 08-23-2019, 01:09 PM
splashes splashes is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 233
Thanks: 0
Thanked 108 Times in 51 Posts
Default

contact warranty dept poor design of slope
  #3  
Old 08-23-2019, 01:40 PM
Investment Painting Contractors Investment Painting Contractors is offline
TOTV SPONSOR
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Near Spanish Springs, The villages
Posts: 794
Thanks: 1
Thanked 319 Times in 125 Posts
Default

Did you have pavers installed? How much water are you talking about?
  #4  
Old 08-23-2019, 01:51 PM
GrumpyOldMan GrumpyOldMan is offline
Soaring Eagle member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 2,016
Thanks: 333
Thanked 2,477 Times in 753 Posts
Default

uh oh...
  #5  
Old 08-23-2019, 02:07 PM
Altavia Altavia is offline
Sage
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 3,390
Thanks: 1,437
Thanked 2,773 Times in 1,241 Posts
Default

How much of the floor is flooding?

Garage floors should be self draining, 1/8" to 1/4" Of slope per foot is typical.

This has a safety element since liquid fuel needs to drain to outside if there is a leak or a fire.

If you set a D cell battery on the floor, it should roll all the way to the garage door without giving much if any help to start.

Sometimes they make the floor level next to the house for shelves/benches but it needs to slope starting from the cars front bumper back at a minimum.
  #6  
Old 08-23-2019, 04:36 PM
Number 10 GI Number 10 GI is offline
Platinum member
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 1,636
Thanks: 5,119
Thanked 3,224 Times in 929 Posts
Default

Have you been able to determine where the water is entering your garage? As splashes said, contact the warranty folks, something isn't right.
  #7  
Old 08-23-2019, 05:18 PM
jcvdd1 jcvdd1 is offline
Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 95
Thanks: 1
Thanked 14 Times in 8 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Number 10 GI View Post
Have you been able to determine where the water is entering your garage? As splashes said, contact the warranty folks, something isn't right.
Hello-

Actually my garage floor has not as of yet gotten wet due to heavy rain but as a part-time resident, I was wondering if it's safe to store items that can't get wet on the garage floor ? Thanks
  #8  
Old 08-23-2019, 05:27 PM
Chi-Town's Avatar
Chi-Town Chi-Town is offline
Sage
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 7,496
Thanks: 188
Thanked 1,480 Times in 713 Posts
Default

Rule of thumb is not to store something that you care for that lays flat on the garage floor.

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
  #9  
Old 08-23-2019, 07:09 PM
villagetinker's Avatar
villagetinker villagetinker is offline
Sage
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Village of Pinellas
Posts: 9,670
Thanks: 2
Thanked 6,147 Times in 2,246 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by jcvdd1 View Post
Hello-

Actually my garage floor has not as of yet gotten wet due to heavy rain but as a part-time resident, I was wondering if it's safe to store items that can't get wet on the garage floor ? Thanks
The garages are NOT humidity controlled, and while it is highly doubtful that you will get rain in the garage, you will get high humidity and this can be as bad or worse than rain. Be very careful what you store in the garage and the attic (very high temperatures in the summer).
__________________
Pennsylvania, for 60+ years, most recently, Allentown, now TV.
Closed Thread

Tags
garage, villages, rain, heavy, preventing


You are viewing a new design of the TOTV site. Click here to revert to the old version.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:47 PM.