Water comeing under the door !

Foul and surface water, private drains and public sewers, land drains and soakaways, filter drains and any other ways of getting rid of water.
acornelectron
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Post: # 68848Post acornelectron

I don't know where my drains run to and there is nothing in my homebuyers report about it. The bit between the door and the drain does not fall into the drain, it is flat or sloping slightly into the garage because the left hand side of the garage gets standing water.

If by a water bar you mean just a flat strip like this: Sabrefix

then that would not be enough. Water would just gather behind it I think.
J Ritchie

seanandruby
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Post: # 68851Post seanandruby

That's why your garage is flooding...no fall. You need a crossfall from the garage to the channel. It may be best to bite the bullet and lower your channel making a fall from your garage.
sean

acornelectron
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Post: # 68872Post acornelectron

These are images fyi: Water comes into the garage on the left and the drain is on the right.

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How much would you guess lowering the channel cost?
J Ritchie

acornelectron
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Post: # 68874Post acornelectron

k :D ???
J Ritchie

lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 68879Post lutonlagerlout

firstly ,pull them blinking weeds out of the block paving!
its a drive not an allotment!
biggest issue john is that you have wooden doors that because they open out up a slope have a gap under them
no way out of this
in your scenario unless you change to a different door,all you can do is run a new aco type drain directly in front of the door
this will involve a fair bit of effing and blinding as you have to cut through the concrete oversite and connect the new drain to the old
cheers LLL :)
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