"Noozer" wrote in message
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Howdy!
My garage always gets water into it when we have rain or a snow melt and I
was wondering what do to about it...
The contractor who poured our pad did not put any slope on it, so water
just
comes in around the doors or from the car and sits on the floor instead of
running back out.
Also, the 2x6 walls don't appear to have any gasket material under the
bottom plate. The walls are still empty - no insulation or drywall over
them. Outside is sheathed and covered in vinyl siding.
The pad is 24'x32' and we've got three single doors on the north side.
Is there any way to keep the water from coming in the doors that won't
interfere with their operation?
Is having no gasket under the bottom plate a big issue or will sealing
along
the inside seam with caulk take care of the small amounts of water we get
in
under the walls? The pad is very close to ground level so it doesn't take
much snow for the melt to come under the walls. Rain isn't much of an
issue.
An almost grade-level slab, and no perimeter masonry stub walls (usually
concrete block) under the frame walls? In other works, your garage is just
sitting on a flat slab? No wonder it is wet inside. Any blown rain will
come in right under wall, once felt or whatever fails. At a minimum, I'd dig
a slit trench around the outside, maybe a foot wide and deep, and fill it
with gravel, and provide a low spot if possible for water to drain to from
the trench. It could be oozing up right through slab- once it is wet,
nowhere for it to go downhill to. Other posters are right- design flaws
galore here.
I know it wouldn't be practical, but if cost was no object, something like
this would **** me off enough to jack up garage and pour a proper sloped and
drained slab, with footings, under it, and then set garage back down. Garage
floors up here in the northland are poured after garage is built, and the
slab rests on ledge of the footings and/or foundation for the perimeter
wall. By local standards, what you have is a walled-in carport. Don't caulk
the inside of the sill plate- that will just keep the sills wet forever, and
even pressure-treated won't hold up under that. Do something on the outside
to keep water out.
aem sends...
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