I would invest in a few sacks of the cheapest cat litter available.

Mop and bucket.

Thats a shame i was just thinking about a drain being built in
we have had several floods over the years and have a big wet vac thing its great, athough i am not sure how it would handle all the grit and sand,



Sounds like theres a whole in the market for some bright spark
what about a pond vac would that work, that sucks up all sorts of muck and water ? just a thought



cheers sue

I have a drain in one garage but not in the other. We do keep wooden stuff off the floor and I make with the big squeegy thing to keep the water off. The garage with the drain of course has it at the highest point in the floor it seems!

Salt. Lots of it. My car lives in our garage now that we only need 1 car for commuting (working for the same company is awesome), so we're using the SUV in the winter and will use my tiny thing in the spring/summer. For some stupid reason, when the house builders put the guttering up they directed the downspout onto the driveway, right next to where the driver's door is...now that's clever. Every time there's a thaw then a freeze, we had a skating rink on the driveway. We used about a bag of salt every 2 days last winter (we moved in in January). This year we wised up and bought a flexible extension, so we're redirecting the water into a flower bed.

This thread is completely lost on me. I've lived in a variety of Canadian houses without having any sort of garage flooding problem, surely proper grading should prevent that.

Ah! The common man speaks common sense.

I have a garage...with a drain...at the lowest point of the grading. If I ever put a car in it I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem with snow melt.

If I could be arsed to make room for a car I could try an experiment to make sure.

Oh, one more thing. The garage is (as I think is normal) unheated. Why would snow melt in there in the first place?

I can only assume we don't have proper grading. But if we did, it would all be running down the drive, which is sloped.

I think the garage is warmer, being integral, than it is outside by some way, however, the snow sticks to the car in huge amounts, and then slides off, or drips off. There is no drain, and the floor looks as flat as a pancake.

Even when I clear all I can out of the arches, the amount of almost black, thick, goopy, slushy crap, under the car that I can't get at, must be enough to leave the huge puddles

Why do you put the car in the garage? Are you short of bicycles, skis, lawnmowers, barbecues and similar garage stuff?

Perhaps snorkmaiden like myself is one of the few people left in the world who believe that a garage is for cars.

Other stuff can be stored in there but not at the expense of its prime purpose.

Call me old fashioned but I didn't buy a house with a garage so I could park my vehicles on the street.

A rare breed, we have a triple garage and couldn't get a car in there

I'm with you on that

Besides it's no fun for OH digging the car out from the nights snowfall at 5.45 am in -25 !!!

I do spoil him.....

Linda

nice one

I'm trying hard to think of any garage near me that is used to house a car, even the ones that aren't stuffed with crap. I don't think mine has ever had a car in it.

At least one of my neighbours has converted the garage to another room.

We never put the car in the UK garage, it was a utility/store room, not to mention where the treadmill ( I mean close horse) lived....no room for car there!!!

Most of my neighbours here seem to garage their cars.

I would love to have a triple garage though.....can never have too much storage room!!!

Linda