Larder Drain

[Buchan]

How do you lay a floor to drain please? Having real problems in a 4mx2.5m room, not helped by having a solar battery in there on one wall at floor level, so it mist slope away from that! Is this something I can do. Rephrase that, is this something the competent person can do as a DIY project. Whether I can do it is a different matter!
What's the technique/materials needed?

 

[Klenchblaize]

What is it planned to drain into?

K

 

[Tim.243]

How do you lay a floor to drain please? Having real problems in a 4mx2.5m room, not helped by having a solar battery in there on one wall at floor level, so it mist slope away from that! Is this something I can do. Rephrase that, is this something the competent person can do as a DIY project. Whether I can do it is a different matter!
What's the technique/materials needed?

Are you screeding the floor? Dad and I built a lot dog kennels so the floor ran to the centre using a drain pipe to make the gully in the screed then trowel it to a glass finish.
But TBH if you are struggling to understand what you need then get a floor layer in to set and run the fall in your floor.

 

[75]

Have you got a floor in there already and what's it made of? Retrofitting anything is going to be tricky but a photo might help with coming up with suggestions.

 

[weblyish]

A proper screeder is best to lay the base levels if it is new concrete

Doing it yourself is possible but a PITA to get right

 

[Bowland blades]

Doing a flat level screen is fairly straight forwards as it self levels . Making various slopes to drain off points makes it a fair amount harder

 

[Buchan]

What is it planned to drain into?

K

Normal household drain. There is a drain at the back for a sink already

 

[Buchan]

Doing a flat level screen is fairly straight forwards as it self levels . Making various slopes to drain off points makes it a fair amount harder

How does self levelling work to create a fall? Always puzzled me

 

[Bowland blades]

How does self levelling work to create a fall? Always puzzled me

with difficulty and not with the runny self levelling still its done .

 

[finbar]

It doesn’t you will need to build it up say 10 mm at at time feathering it away to nowt & repeat towards the gully drain
Easier to show then explain

 

[geoffw]

How does self levelling work to create a fall? Always puzzled me

Mix it a little stiffer than the instructions and pour it with more at the top end of your slope, then roller it with the bristle roller. It's not as hard as you might think- even I laid my sloped larder floor last year.