Irc Floor Drains

The international code council icc is a non profit organization dedicated to developing model codes and standards used in the design build and compliance process.

Irc floor drains.

The primary types of garage floor drains are square drains and trench drains. Square drains also sometimes round drains can range in size from 6 inches to 1 foot around. This may sound like a dumb question so correct me if i m wrong everyone but aren t all basments finished or not required to have a floor drain tied into a storm drain or sump pump system with a discharge system to the outside of the house or to a storm sewer system. We install twice as many of these concrete floor drains versus the trench drains.

Hub drains shall be in the form of a hub or a pipe that extends not less than 1 inch 25 mm above a water impervious floor. I can t seem to find the code reference in the irc or any other code source. The international codes i codes are the widely accepted comprehensive set of model codes used in the us and abroad to help ensure the engineering of safe sustainable affordable and resilient structures. A square garage floor drain these also come round is a simple very easy to install floor drain.

2012 international residential code. P2706 1 2 standpipes standpipes shall extend not less than 18 inches 457 mm and not greater than 42 inches 1067 mm above the trap weir. The floor drain shall be constructed so that the drain is capable of being cleaned. They are very inexpensive and much faster easier to put in place.

Floor drains shall have waste outlets not less than 2 inches 51 mm in diameter and shall be provided with a removable strainer. Floor assemblies not required elsewhere in this code to be fire resistance rated shall be provided with a inch gypsum wallboard membrane 5 8 inch wood structural panel membrane or equivalent on the underside of the floor framing member. R501 3 fire protection of floors. Ready access shall be provided to the drain inlet.