steel pipe under garage door - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

user50444 · 10-24-2009, 10:58 AM

I'm sure this isn't the only area this has been done, but why did they pour a steel pipe in a garage floor under the overhead door back in the day?
I'm assuming to stop water... in a F'd up way?
Dumb question,... but I just have to know!

Hoven · 10-24-2009, 05:25 PM

Back in the Day anything metal would end up in pours. My guess is they thought they were strengthening the floor or it was a good place to get rid of it.

BillD · 10-24-2009, 05:34 PM

I do not know for sure but I would guess that it was so the edge would not break up.

Bill

user50444 · 10-24-2009, 05:48 PM

I've probably only saw it 4-5 times around here but the pipe is about 1-1/2" in diameter, about half of that sticks out of the slab, + is located right under where the overhead door comes down

neolitic · 10-24-2009, 06:08 PM

Kind of like a threshold interlock
to mate with the door bottom gasket.