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[DobieLover]

Often enough since 1999 that I have tried all the tricks and tips, including a few thing I've done to help avoid it.
Biggest problem is drain(circa 1976) doesn't work well, tried to snake it but not long enough, supposed dry well is probably saturated. I don't really know the details of how the drain system was constructed. I do know the entire floor is not properly sloped to drain.
Have a squeegee, it works OK, not great.
Have a pump I can hook up, but it's kind of a PITA to set up and keep it primed. Using it depends on how deep the flood is.
Either way the shop vac still needed to get in the low spots around edge of garage,
it's not hard to push it to the garage entrance apron(1" lower than floor) to drain.

Does it puddle in the lowest spot? Could you have it jack hammered up in that spot and install a sump and put a sump pump in it then have that piped straight up through a check valve and send the pipe out the side of the garage then down and out to wherever you want to discharge it? If the low spot is smack in the middle of a parking space that would obviously eliminate that space but it would be better than the garage flooding.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.
I finally grafted Kylie to the wet nest (pretty grafted- she is still being locked into the ward) and gave her 6 hatching eggs from the farm around the corner that sells fresh eggs. They have lots of roosters and a variety of hens, mostly high production breeds which I don't really like. I set two white eggs, a medium/dark brown egg, a lighter olive egg and two "regular" colored brown eggs. The chicks will be barnyard mixed but most of my flock already is so what do I care?

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Cafe good morning one and all!

Tea is ready, hot or iced.

Temperature is in the 70s.

Have a great day!

 

[aart]

Does it puddle in the lowest spot? Could you have it jack hammered up in that spot and install a sump and put a sump pump in it then have that piped straight up through a check valve and send the pipe out the side of the garage then down and out to wherever you want to discharge it? If the low spot is smack in the middle of a parking space that would obviously eliminate that space but it would be better than the garage flooding.

Sounds way to intrusive and drastic. It doesn't flood that often or severely.
It's a two car garage, the drain is in a properly sloped low spot in the middle, the other low spots, that don't run to the drain, are varied and mostly around the edges near the block walls. The garage is under the house(walkout ranch), the lower level floor is a foot above the garage level so no danger to the house proper. I have everything in the garage up on small pallets around the edge. A few or more years ago I decided this must be a mold magnet, so got some new pallets and removed everything from the garage, there really wasn't any mold and the pallets were still in good shape.<shrugs> So I just deal with it as it comes. I have done some preventative tweaking to block where the water comes in at gaps in the rubber seal at bottom of garage doors, it works well most the time, unless we get an absolute deluge.

 

[aart]

Enjoying the cool morning, HOT today then a few more cooler ones, then a 4-5 days of near 90....at least nights will still cool then.

 

[Sally PB]

I have everything in the garage up on small pallets around the edge.

There is no drain in our basement floor. (Thank you, idiot who built the house. Another WTF were you thinking?) I have anything that shouldn't get wet up on plastic things. Like the carriers for 2-litre bottles of pop. Or styrofoam inserts from packages.

In 29 years, that has saved stuff from ruin twice. And one flooding to teach me I needed to do that.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL!

Back to work in foggy Halifax (not that I ever really stop). I had some wonderful encounters with whales last week, both on a short trip to the south shore (humpbacks) and doing research (pilot whales).

Humpback Whales of Brier Island

Long-finned Pilot Whales of Cape Breton (lots of brand new babies!)

 

[aart]

There is no drain in our basement floor. (Thank you, idiot who built the house. Another WTF were you thinking?) I have anything that shouldn't get wet up on plastic things. Like the carriers for 2-litre bottles of pop. Or styrofoam inserts from packages.

In 29 years, that has saved stuff from ruin twice. And one flooding to teach me I needed to do that.

Now if it was my house that was flooding something would have to be done.
Does this happen often @Sally PB ?

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee. @Offshoreorca thanks for the pictures.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL!

Back to work in foggy Halifax (not that I ever really stop). I had some wonderful encounters with whales last week, both on a short trip to the south shore (humpbacks) and doing research (pilot whales).

Humpback Whales of Brier Island
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Long-finned Pilot Whales of Cape Breton (lots of brand new babies!)
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The pictures are wonderful.

It reminds me of the whales I got to see in Alaska.