Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jul 20, 2012 3:43 pm Hi. Our driveway has the standard running channel grate drain. I should of asked for the silver metal one but it slipped my mind. Anyways I noticed it looks like the top part of the plastic grate is held in by tabs. Now is it possible to remove and put the metal top part in? Re: driveway grate drain - plastic top to metal? 2Jul 21, 2012 1:18 pm You should be able to remove the grate with a large flat head screwdriver, by twisting at the tab location so they pop out. I'm assuming the drains are either Reln or Everhard, and I believe for both you can get stainless steel drain covers. Re: driveway grate drain - plastic top to metal? 3Jul 23, 2012 12:16 am The stainless grate is incredibly more expensive than the plastic when you need to do the width of a double garage. Available from Bunnings. Slab poured 21/04/2011 Frame finished 27/05/2011 Moved in 07/11/2011 Had a new driveway installed with a 6 metre long 150 x 150 channel drain and have since found out it has 4cm of water sitting at the bottom below the side pipe… 0 4158 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair At a bit of a loss on this one - we're thinking the original owners never removed the protective laminate covers from their kitchen cabinets after installation and in the… 0 4612 You are fine. The concrete is never going to explode. Worse case scenario is that it develops a crack from different rates of expansion but hopefully it's got some… 5 4509 |