Big thank you to everyone that is watching and supporting our channel! We can’t believe this video has gotten so many views and being that this was a very old job, we have since improved on our methods and continue to tweak our craft of installing yard drainage systems. Our goal is to help the homeowner and DIYer understand Storm water drainage. To see more recent videos that teach the best practices to use when building a drainage system visit our channel📺
Great video and very educational. You mention you've since improved on your methods and tweaked. Could you provide details on what improvements you've made since? Thank you so much!
This is really smart. Im struggling with a similar issue right in front of our house, it's becoming a swamp very quickly. Thanks for this info. Now, I need to find some volunteers who like to shovel. :)
good job? who could'nt guess that you that you had work the pipe to change slope..make the underground slope so it drains while top is still flat..easily impressed huh..
Thank you so much for showing how to do this. I was a bit sceptical at first, however it works, amazing. We will now hopefully stop getting flooded every time it rains.
Great solution for areas that do not have lengthy freezing temperatures. We generally try not to discharge water onto walking surfaces in the winter because of ice buildup. Discharging water across a sidewalk in Wisconsin would be like buying a lottery ticket to a lawsuit for a slip and fall claim.
I built a French drain that was 3 feet wide and 12 feet long, dug a 3 foot diameter hole 3 foot deep filled with drain rocks then installed my drain lines. Works well in light to moderate rain. hard rains drain a lot faster but still flood the end of my patio. It is much better than it was before. Good video, I did the same but on a larger scale.
Next time put a 2/3/4 inch pipe in there with holes on the bottom near the ground, then cover with rock. Water rises in the trench and fills the pipe immediately exiting the trench, almost like a water highway.
As a landscaper, if the customer is having standing water issues and there’s no slope or any other way to get the water out from a location, we just dig a 2-3 foot deep and 1-2 foot wide and however long trench. We line it with landscaping fabric, fill it with drain rock and cover it up. It’s kinda like a French drain but without the perforated drain line. We tell people to call us back if it failed and we haven’t had anyone call us back yet! So that 2 foot deep pipe with rock at the end is kind of like that.
Any videos of your work. Also would you recommend tacking plastic damp proof sheets to the bricks in the trench before filling up the trench with pebbles.
@@Mobile-pd1ucno videos, but unfortunately I have no idea what you’re asking about the plastic sheets and bricks haha sorry. We just did the trench, line it with landscaping weed fabric (the woven stuff so water can move through it) fill the trench with drain rock, and cover the the top with more fabric and either cover that with mulch, more rock, or even dirt.
had water puddling in front of my home after raining heavy or light the rain puddled where the street met the property. It also went out into the street about 3 feet my stone mason did what you mentioned and it pretty much did the job . we had pachysandra growing there too. it was a very shady spot and grass couldn't grow there. . The pachysandra have gone bonkers I think because they are getting a lot of water now . never knew pachysandras had flowers
Great job. I love the ideas for using a T at the end so it future proofs any clogging. Also the taping of the drain grates before concreting is brilliant. I wished you were near me so unfortunately I got to do it myself.
THANK YOU! This video is EXTREMELY Informative!!! Plus you did a great job demonstrating, describing, & explaining every step you took!! Every HOME BUYER needs to learn this!!! I wish I knew this 30+ years ago & it would’ve have been nice to get a REMINDER every few years as well! **This Channel does exceptional PUBLIC SERVICE 👏by providing IMPORTANT information!!!!👍👏👏
This may work for lighter rain but a good heavy soaking will overwhelm this quickly. Also, depending on your jurisdiction, sheet flowing over the public right of way may not be an allowed form of site drainage (it is not where I live - drain pipes must exit the public ROW and daylight into the street gutter).
With a side walk like that. It is most likely a rural area with no codes to worry about. And as shallow as this storm drain is being installed, it must be in the South where it never freezes.
Decent video of the process, but in terms of functionality, I’d have to agree agree this will be completely overwhelmed with a heavy rain. We had a similar problem here in Florida with almost 0 slope to the street, and it required me to French drain the entire perimeter of the yard into two sump basin’s with to discharge lines out to the street to blow the water away from the house. Had I install this particular method the water volume would have back, flowed into the yard and around the house, not to the sidewalk
in some townships you can't pipe into the road and in northern states that water dumping over the sidewalk leads to ice..lawyers love that kind of thing
I did the exact same thing with a drainage project of mine. One thing I learned though is that over time sediment will build up at the drainage end and prevent percolation back into the ground, so I have to periodically clear that out.
A trick that has been used by soils engineers for probably almost 100 years, but which has been totally ignored by the plumbing industry, is to place a layer of filter sand between the soil and the pipe, or between the surrounding soil and the drain rock. This can be done on underground structures or surrounding the perimeter of catch basins. A very available and highly effective filter sand is that which is suitable for use as fine aggregate in concrete, meeting the specs for ASTM C33. It's commonly called "torpedo sand" by those who don't really know it's primary purpose, and you may have to search for it by that name. This sand is very clean, but it's also well graded so that the spaces between particles are much smaller than what's the case for what might be called "beach sand" or "river sand", etc. The small pore spaces within this sand will stop silt-size soil particles from entry. Since the filter sand is right against the surrounding soil, there's no room for the soil to move, and thus there's no accumulation of fines on the outside surface of the sand fill and so no clogging occurs (unlike what happens when clear stone is in contact with the surrounding soil). Properly installed, this kind of a filter will last forever and will never become clogged. It is plumbers who write the rules for their trade in the building codes, and so the value of this filtering method will probably never be recognized by those who need this information the most.
Awesome videos, they have been a blessing! Thank you. Quick question, how does the water not run back out the catch basin once the water fills up the clean out tee? Please help me to understand that science, thanks again!
i am so glad we actually have proper plumbing into both storm water and sewer water down her in australia....you could have also used AG pipe to assist the drainage along the concrete edge, as it would pick up all that water and move it away from the house
Collecting rain water can be an ordinance violation as some towns/cities prevent the collection of rainwater. Mostly due to the lack of upkeep from the homeowner when the barrels become full. Always check with your local building inspector to determine potential pitfalls before purchasing any supplies for a project.
My runs from downspout have solid 3" pvc to drywell in planting/flower bed and perforated drain run to street so if garden/lawn is dry, outflow can help water landscape (in front); backyard rain barrel for veggie garden.
Great video sir! The audio couldn`t have been any clearer or better for someone hard hearing and no music made it all the better. GREAT job with that drain!
I had a similar issue but not really against the house. 59 year old me placed 4 mini catch basins that drained into perferated drain pipes. They led into a solid pipe. I made sure the pipe had good fall & was able to move water and into a pop up drain at the road. I'll eventually connect my gutter drains into it. I did use river rock around it I also placed fabric over it to keep the perforations clear. There is no longer standing water there. This work was done in Indiana.
Don't make rain water flood onto the road please. It is a serious fine in most council areas. Imagine there is a serious rain fall and your flooding water section causes a car to lose control and have an accident. First you probably broke the law as drainage is meant to be kept inside the property boundary - then your property insurance would not cover the accident cause you broke the law..... need I go on?
@@markplain2555 nonsense. Are you from England? We dont call them "council areas" in America. We also require community storm drains in neighborhoods here. Dumping your property runoff into the street, allows it to run off to the community storm drains, eliminating the water from the street. "Need I go on"? You literally dont know what youre talking about. You can "go on" all you want, but youre flat out wrong. At least in America you are wrong. I dont know about England, where they do everything wrong, and havent updated building techniques in 100 years. But please, do go on. 🙄
@@carllennen3520 Wow Carl....you sure have a way with people. A guy, possibly Canadian, makes a spurious comment about yard drainage and you manage to offend the entire mother country, and a different one at that. England does at least some things right, they make a good kidney pudding, let's see THAT in America.
This channel is legit. Subscribed. Thanks. I will need to watch this post several times to understand all the fluid dynamic theories. ~~~~~~VVV~~~~~ (ha har)
I’m dealing with this at my house. But it already has the same “channel” drains installed. U can’t beat Mother Nature. The drains clog and overflow with heavy rain. My cement is now cracked from saturating the soil causing “heaving” (expanding soil). Heaving isn’t a problem in FL. By the way, that channel drain is godly expensive. The fix, all gutter/roof water is directed away from the area. I had about the same amount of cement as the video but had it all removed. Had dirt brought in to give the proper slope and a new cement patio put down. The cement has a slight slope to shed water away from the house. No channel drain, no cutting the cement, no digging, no pipes, no cleaning out the drains. Any company or crew who can install a sidewalk can install a small patio with the correct slope.
it more than likely will. if the ground is holding water by the house it will holding at the sidewalk. the water storage at the sidewalk is so small it will only help for light rains. most cities have ordinances were that would be illegal as the run off has go over the lawn first and can't be directed to municipal stormwater systems.
@@vinceaaron8921 this looks like Florida and in many Florida neighborhoods there are concrete water channels that move the water from areas into storm drains. I didn’t see it in the footage but I imagine the channel is there, once the water rises above a certain level it’ll begin to move towards the channel.
You can jet it from the top and then use a sucker truck at the bottom to suck out the silt. The pipe will silt up if there isn't sufficient cleansing velocity to push the sediment along the pipe.
you don't. Most of the time you would use a perforate type of line for just that reason. Unless there is a high flow rate, it will fill up eventually. But you can maintain a cleaner pipe from time to time with a high pressure hose and then cleaning out the catch basins and the out flow by the sidewalk. The other thing you can do is have some sort of screening on the high side catch basins to reduce the amount of sediment that enters. But you need to clean those often to prevent a clog at the initial entry point.
I think this is a great video and we actually did something similar in our backyard but directed the water to the furthest point of the backyard.....i just wanted to mention a situation my neighbor had with irrigation issues in her driveway....a contractor directed the water out of the driveway towards the sidewalk and one of the shady neighbors in our neighborhood walked by her house on the sidewalk he claimed he slipped on the ice from her irrigation system and sued her. He won of course so just one thing to consider
Did you consider re profiling the concrete with a slight fall and digging a large soak away in the yard, possibly with a float-operated sump pump (piped to a proper drain) located somewhere near the top of the soakaway , to stop it overflowing in extreme conditions?
If I need to add an extension to SDR 35 cleanout T at the top, do you think the system would still work? That is, the water will still discharge fine. I have around 18 inches from the base of my trench to grade level. Thanks so much for your help!
What did it look like at the catch basin when it was flowing over the sidewalk? If that point was higher than the catch basin I would imagine that the catch basin is flooded and overflowing too.
nice video. woulda been nice to see more detail on the end at sidewalk..was the 2 foot pipe capped? was it perforated? to allow water to seep outwards into the rocks?
Does the 4" green pipe have no holes? How do you clean the grate at the end of your run by the sidewalk? Is it removable? Is the pipe you run under that grate preforated? How does the water come out? There is no cloth around the end of the pipe, so I thought it would get clogged up at the end of the run underground two feet down. How do you measure slope? Thanks!
This is a solid system so there are no perforations in the pipe. The grate pops on and off but we do not use grates at the end of our systems anymore, this video footage was filmed years ago before being uploaded to UA-cam. Best to use a straight pipe when you can or a pop up emitter. The water comes out due to the pipe having slope. The yard has virtually no slope until about the last 5ft before the side walk. This is what allows the pipe to drain out at the discharge end and not back up at the catch basin or channel drain. This system was built before we started using geo fabric at our discharge ends. Now we always put it under our pop up emitters. Best way to measure your slope in yard drainage is to use a 4-6ft level and make sure your bubble is going opposite of the way you want water to travel. For more in drainage education check out our other videos. Thank you for your interest and support!
No worries. The plastic will break down in about 120 years. Plus, people probably consume that much plastic over the course of their lifetime anyway. It's like sugar on your frosted flakes.
You should use a non-woven fabric to wrap the gravel around the pipe so that soil will not choke the holes in the pipe over time. Without that, your pipe will work for about 2 years only.
@@iwastoldtherewouldbenomath6869 kinda weird cuz lots are generally sloped with a 2% grade (1/8" per ft) from back towards the street (building code). I dug a sewer line from my pool house out to the front cleanout riser, next to my house, in a uniform 18" ditch the whole way. Used an 8ft framing level to check grade and it cracked the bubble the whole way.....23 yrs later still works, never clogged. We rent it out to college students now. SoCalif.
@@readmore3634 I do this kind of work for a living and I can tell you most homes have land that is sloped incorrectly. I also generally do not use a level but rather I use a laser level and shoot the entire run. You can get into problems with a level because it only covers a few feet. The video solution is one similar to what I have done when there is little to no available grade to carry the water away. Many times I have had my crew dig out a catchment basin to hold the water and it's been highly effective.
@@iwastoldtherewouldbenomath6869 Good to know, I just figured eventually it's gunna fill up with dirt cuz dirt doesn't soak in...it builds up. I used ABS (plastic) pipe so it's not perfectly straight. An 8ft level and constantly shading pipe with dirt is a must down in the 6" wide ditch. It has to be pretty straight at 2% grade (1/2" of fall every 4 ft). 2% grade is actually legal/adequate but it has to be cast iron...I hate cast iron. 40 years Master Plumber, Union, journeyman, Local 364 in SoCalif. Custom houses are my specialty....lots of remodel.
@@iwastoldtherewouldbenomath6869 "wrap the gravel around the pipe" meaning the gravel around the pipe not the pipe itself. I guess you have not taken differential equation.
Good question! We would not recommend using PVC for yard drainage if you live in a climate zone that has freezes. PVC will crack in those conditions unless it’s below the frost line which is difficult to do in most situations when it pertains to yard drainage. Use drainage pipe made from a virgin material that can expand and contract in freezing climates.
If the whole yard was flat like you said then you should use perforated pipe to catch soaking water from the saturated yard. This only drains the two areas you installed inlets at.
That was my thought. Overall I like what he did, but projecting this onto my own flat yard I thought a perforated drain tile would work without having to have a catch basin grate in the middle of the yard. But you would spend a lot more on materials.
That would be a bad Idea, for the silt from the yard would then clog the pipe. Even adding "window screen" around the piping the length of the project would be work intensive.
Some good ideas here. This exact setup depends on what the Porosity of the soil is A larger “French drain” might be needed in more clay like/ less draining soils. Would even consider making the whole trench, after the grate, a French drain using weeping tile, fabric and 40mm
Big thank you to everyone that is watching and supporting our channel! We can’t believe this video has gotten so many views and being that this was a very old job, we have since improved on our methods and continue to tweak our craft of installing yard drainage systems. Our goal is to help the homeowner and DIYer understand Storm water drainage. To see more recent videos that teach the best practices to use when building a drainage system visit our channel📺
Great video and very educational. You mention you've since improved on your methods and tweaked. Could you provide details on what improvements you've made since? Thank you so much!
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This is really smart. Im struggling with a similar issue right in front of our house, it's becoming a swamp very quickly. Thanks for this info. Now, I need to find some volunteers who like to shovel. :)
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I like how you produced this video - no filler music or wasted repetition. Good job.
good job? who could'nt guess that you that you had work the pipe to change slope..make the underground slope so it drains while top is still flat..easily impressed huh..
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@@donaldcook6997 I was impressed.
Like the good 'ole days of youtube
@@donaldcook6997 seems obvious but my HOA hired a company who did NOT slope the pipe.
Seems like roof gutters and down spouts would be useful.
Right!!
But it would still puddle
@@Tkidddd would help though
Right
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Nice, calming voice.... CONCRETE SAW! back to calming voice
Thank you so much for showing how to do this. I was a bit sceptical at first, however it works, amazing. We will now hopefully stop getting flooded every time it rains.
Great solution for areas that do not have lengthy freezing temperatures. We generally try not to discharge water onto walking surfaces in the winter because of ice buildup. Discharging water across a sidewalk in Wisconsin would be like buying a lottery ticket to a lawsuit for a slip and fall claim.
Nice video. Thank you for the professional narration explaining what you were doing and why. Thank you so much for no annoying music in the video too.
Thank you for the kind words!
Totally agree.....NO MUSIC IS THE WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best ground drain line video ive Seen . Using The correct material.
I built a French drain that was 3 feet wide and 12 feet long, dug a 3 foot diameter hole 3 foot deep filled with drain rocks then installed my drain lines. Works well in light to moderate rain. hard rains drain a lot faster but still flood the end of my patio. It is much better than it was before. Good video, I did the same but on a larger scale.
Next time put a 2/3/4 inch pipe in there with holes on the bottom near the ground, then cover with rock. Water rises in the trench and fills the pipe immediately exiting the trench, almost like a water highway.
You don’t put the basin at the end of the pipe? At the ground level?
As a landscaper, if the customer is having standing water issues and there’s no slope or any other way to get the water out from a location, we just dig a 2-3 foot deep and 1-2 foot wide and however long trench. We line it with landscaping fabric, fill it with drain rock and cover it up. It’s kinda like a French drain but without the perforated drain line. We tell people to call us back if it failed and we haven’t had anyone call us back yet! So that 2 foot deep pipe with rock at the end is kind of like that.
So a soakway....
Any videos of your work. Also would you recommend tacking plastic damp proof sheets to the bricks in the trench before filling up the trench with pebbles.
@@Mobile-pd1ucno videos, but unfortunately I have no idea what you’re asking about the plastic sheets and bricks haha sorry. We just did the trench, line it with landscaping weed fabric (the woven stuff so water can move through it) fill the trench with drain rock, and cover the the top with more fabric and either cover that with mulch, more rock, or even dirt.
had water puddling in front of my home after raining heavy or light the rain puddled where the street met the property. It also went out into the street about 3 feet
my stone mason did what you mentioned and it pretty much did the job . we had pachysandra growing there too. it was a very shady spot and grass couldn't grow there. . The pachysandra have gone bonkers I think because they are getting a lot of water now . never knew pachysandras had flowers
How long is the run length? I suppose it should work in heavy rain as well?
TQ for sharing the ideas. u sharing us ideas to redirect the rain water without spliing the front yard😊
Excellent video. No filler, no waste... concise explanation that is easy to absorb and feel confident to implement. Thank you.
Great job. I love the ideas for using a T at the end so it future proofs any clogging. Also the taping of the drain grates before concreting is brilliant.
I wished you were near me so unfortunately I got to do it myself.
THANK YOU! This video is EXTREMELY Informative!!! Plus you did a great job demonstrating, describing, & explaining every step you took!! Every HOME BUYER needs to learn this!!! I wish I knew this 30+ years ago & it would’ve have been nice to get a REMINDER every few years as well! **This Channel does exceptional PUBLIC SERVICE 👏by providing IMPORTANT information!!!!👍👏👏
Looks great, nice way to make the best of a situation where some factors are out of your control. Thanks!
This may work for lighter rain but a good heavy soaking will overwhelm this quickly. Also, depending on your jurisdiction, sheet flowing over the public right of way may not be an allowed form of site drainage (it is not where I live - drain pipes must exit the public ROW and daylight into the street gutter).
6:35 as he said, the sidewalk is connected to the road.. no curb to daylight into
With a side walk like that. It is most likely a rural area with no codes to worry about. And as shallow as this storm drain is being installed, it must be in the South where it never freezes.
For sure...I wouldn't install/warranty/advertise this as a solution. I'd rather have my customer pissed at someone else.
Decent video of the process, but in terms of functionality, I’d have to agree agree this will be completely overwhelmed with a heavy rain. We had a similar problem here in Florida with almost 0 slope to the street, and it required me to French drain the entire perimeter of the yard into two sump basin’s with to discharge lines out to the street to blow the water away from the house. Had I install this particular method the water volume would have back, flowed into the yard and around the house, not to the sidewalk
in some townships you can't pipe into the road and in northern states that water dumping over the sidewalk leads to ice..lawyers love that kind of thing
I did the exact same thing with a drainage project of mine. One thing I learned though is that over time sediment will build up at the drainage end and prevent percolation back into the ground, so I have to periodically clear that out.
A trick that has been used by soils engineers for probably almost 100 years, but which has been totally ignored by the plumbing industry, is to place a layer of filter sand between the soil and the pipe, or between the surrounding soil and the drain rock. This can be done on underground structures or surrounding the perimeter of catch basins. A very available and highly effective filter sand is that which is suitable for use as fine aggregate in concrete, meeting the specs for ASTM C33. It's commonly called "torpedo sand" by those who don't really know it's primary purpose, and you may have to search for it by that name. This sand is very clean, but it's also well graded so that the spaces between particles are much smaller than what's the case for what might be called "beach sand" or "river sand", etc. The small pore spaces within this sand will stop silt-size soil particles from entry. Since the filter sand is right against the surrounding soil, there's no room for the soil to move, and thus there's no accumulation of fines on the outside surface of the sand fill and so no clogging occurs (unlike what happens when clear stone is in contact with the surrounding soil). Properly installed, this kind of a filter will last forever and will never become clogged. It is plumbers who write the rules for their trade in the building codes, and so the value of this filtering method will probably never be recognized by those who need this information the most.
@@ericl2969thank you very much for this information!!
@@ericl2969 In NJ it's referred to as concrete sand. Concrete sand also compacts very well and is used under pavers and such.
Awesome videos, they have been a blessing! Thank you. Quick question, how does the water not run back out the catch basin once the water fills up the clean out tee? Please help me to understand that science, thanks again!
i am so glad we actually have proper plumbing into both storm water and sewer water down her in australia....you could have also used AG pipe to assist the drainage along the concrete edge, as it would pick up all that water and move it away from the house
Fitting roof gutters and down pipes would be pretty effective. In addition, you could install water butts to collect rain water for use in the garden.
Collecting rain water can be an ordinance violation as some towns/cities prevent the collection of rainwater.
Mostly due to the lack of upkeep from the homeowner when the barrels become full.
Always check with your local building inspector to determine potential pitfalls before purchasing any supplies for a project.
My runs from downspout have solid 3" pvc to drywell in planting/flower bed and perforated drain run to street so if garden/lawn is dry, outflow can help water landscape (in front); backyard rain barrel for veggie garden.
That won't solve a heavy rainfall problem
I was just thinking it would have been easier to install gutters
Perfect. I will start my project this weekend Jan 27 ,2024 - I really need it, its about 70 feet of pipe and 2 12x12 catch basins.
Loved the Gandalf reference, got your point across perfectly!
great editing of this video.... clear concise and fun to watch! thank you sir!
Great video sir!
The audio couldn`t have been any clearer or better for someone hard hearing and no music made it all the better.
GREAT job with that drain!
Excellent video and extremely professional
Thank you very much!
Sweet idea. I hope my new client likes it as much as I do. Thanks for sharing.
Great execution on a hard problem to fix.
Thank you!
That’s your best video yet. I really like that one.
I had a similar issue but not really against the house. 59 year old me placed 4 mini catch basins that drained into perferated drain pipes. They led into a solid pipe. I made sure the pipe had good fall & was able to move water and into a pop up drain at the road. I'll eventually connect my gutter drains into it. I did use river rock around it I also placed fabric over it to keep the perforations clear. There is no longer standing water there. This work was done in Indiana.
Don't make rain water flood onto the road please. It is a serious fine in most council areas. Imagine there is a serious rain fall and your flooding water section causes a car to lose control and have an accident. First you probably broke the law as drainage is meant to be kept inside the property boundary - then your property insurance would not cover the accident cause you broke the law..... need I go on?
@@markplain2555 nonsense. Are you from England? We dont call them "council areas" in America. We also require community storm drains in neighborhoods here. Dumping your property runoff into the street, allows it to run off to the community storm drains, eliminating the water from the street.
"Need I go on"? You literally dont know what youre talking about. You can "go on" all you want, but youre flat out wrong. At least in America you are wrong. I dont know about England, where they do everything wrong, and havent updated building techniques in 100 years. But please, do go on. 🙄
@@carllennen3520 Wow Carl....you sure have a way with people. A guy, possibly Canadian, makes a spurious comment about yard drainage and you manage to offend the entire mother country, and a different one at that. England does at least some things right, they make a good kidney pudding, let's see THAT in America.
@TheLarryBrown we fought a war to get away from garbage like kidney pudding, and poorly planned out neighborhood drainage.
@@TheLarryBrown Carl isn't wrong though.
That's clever design thank you for posting this.
Similar issues at my place but I have a slope. Still like taking the info and using where I can. Cheers.
Any reason to use a grate instead of an emitter?
We don’t use grates like that anymore, use a pop up emitter if you can’t straight pipe the discharge.
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I will need to watch this post several times to understand all the fluid dynamic theories.
~~~~~~VVV~~~~~ (ha har)
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I’m dealing with this at my house. But it already has the same “channel” drains installed. U can’t beat Mother Nature. The drains clog and overflow with heavy rain. My cement is now cracked from saturating the soil causing “heaving” (expanding soil). Heaving isn’t a problem in FL. By the way, that channel drain is godly expensive. The fix, all gutter/roof water is directed away from the area. I had about the same amount of cement as the video but had it all removed. Had dirt brought in to give the proper slope and a new cement patio put down. The cement has a slight slope to shed water away from the house. No channel drain, no cutting the cement, no digging, no pipes, no cleaning out the drains. Any company or crew who can install a sidewalk can install a small patio with the correct slope.
Bloody good thinking there. Well done.
I was thinking to myself, that’s just gonna fill up with water immediately. You explained and it makes perfect sense.
it more than likely will. if the ground is holding water by the house it will holding at the sidewalk. the water storage at the sidewalk is so small it will only help for light rains. most cities have ordinances were that would be illegal as the run off has go over the lawn first and can't be directed to municipal stormwater systems.
@@vinceaaron8921 this looks like Florida and in many Florida neighborhoods there are concrete water channels that move the water from areas into storm drains.
I didn’t see it in the footage but I imagine the channel is there, once the water rises above a certain level it’ll begin to move towards the channel.
I've learned a very good draining system
thanks for a great video. how do you prevent the buildup of silt&clay&fine sand in the pvc? how do you keep the pipe from clogging up?
You can jet it from the top and then use a sucker truck at the bottom to suck out the silt. The pipe will silt up if there isn't sufficient cleansing velocity to push the sediment along the pipe.
you don't. Most of the time you would use a perforate type of line for just that reason. Unless there is a high flow rate, it will fill up eventually. But you can maintain a cleaner pipe from time to time with a high pressure hose and then cleaning out the catch basins and the out flow by the sidewalk. The other thing you can do is have some sort of screening on the high side catch basins to reduce the amount of sediment that enters. But you need to clean those often to prevent a clog at the initial entry point.
I think this is a great video and we actually did something similar in our backyard but directed the water to the furthest point of the backyard.....i just wanted to mention a situation my neighbor had with irrigation issues in her driveway....a contractor directed the water out of the driveway towards the sidewalk and one of the shady neighbors in our neighborhood walked by her house on the sidewalk he claimed he slipped on the ice from her irrigation system and sued her. He won of course so just one thing to consider
Great video. Your explanation is really good and useful. Thanks a lot.
Beautiful system.
This was very clever
Huge job. Well done 👍
I need a drain tile thing in asphalt. Can you cut asphalt driveway? Water gathers on top of it.
Demo saw with a concrete blade will cut though asphalt.
Great work and clear + quick explanation. Thanks.
Thank you 🙏
Nice work Boys , some great tips thanks for the Vid, was great help.
No problem 👍
Good job my man!
Thank you!
Nice job and video man. Just so glad to see others using pvc and not that corrugated crap.
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Did you consider re profiling the concrete with a slight fall and digging a large soak away in the yard, possibly with a float-operated sump pump (piped to a proper drain) located somewhere near the top of the soakaway , to stop it overflowing in extreme conditions?
question; What prevents it from back flow on the drain versus continue to "perculate" at the sidewalk?
second video ive seen of yours. Definitley stopping and enjoying the content, keep it up!
Very well explained good job
Brilliant Idea!
Hey quick question, wont the water back up the pipe before spilling over the top? Great video btw.
I'm wondering the same thing.
Good work man. Commenting to bump a local contractors content
If there’s no slope, do you have a check valve to prevent water from backing up at the trench drain?
No check valve because that could create a potential clog.
Nice! Previously the house owner experienced floods without drainage system in place. Now the owner can have floods with drainage system in place… 😅😅😅
True, a level draining system is actually called “a reservoir”…
Also that's boarded bro, where you had the 3 bricks laid as well beside the drain rocks. Good job 🤠
Nice job.
Thank you!
Great video.
Great info brother.
If I need to add an extension to SDR 35 cleanout T at the top, do you think the system would still work? That is, the water will still discharge fine. I have around 18 inches from the base of my trench to grade level. Thanks so much for your help!
Fit a siphon trap midway. Simple and works a treat.
Is there reason not having two-feet hole as well under the catch basin? I want to implement this for the exact same issue I have. Thank you so much!
Smart fella right here
WHat do I do in northen climate like calgary? I have snow meting and water draining on the floor, how deep do I dig to avoid pipe freezing?
Thanks for the clear explanations.
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What did it look like at the catch basin when it was flowing over the sidewalk? If that point was higher than the catch basin I would imagine that the catch basin is flooded and overflowing too.
it shouldnt since he has created an incline, gravity will always keep the water flowing to the sidewalk.
What a beautiful job!
Nice. Excellent sound and narration too.
nice video. woulda been nice to see more detail on the end at sidewalk..was the 2 foot pipe capped? was it perforated? to allow water to seep outwards into the rocks?
How did you deal with the "yard with no slope"? It looks like the pipe follows the yard level.
Excellent job and well explained,easy if you have the right tools.
You had me at the Gandalf reference 😂😂😂
That was awesome.
Does the 4" green pipe have no holes? How do you clean the grate at the end of your run by the sidewalk? Is it removable? Is the pipe you run under that grate preforated? How does the water come out? There is no cloth around the end of the pipe, so I thought it would get clogged up at the end of the run underground two feet down. How do you measure slope? Thanks!
This is a solid system so there are no perforations in the pipe. The grate pops on and off but we do not use grates at the end of our systems anymore, this video footage was filmed years ago before being uploaded to UA-cam. Best to use a straight pipe when you can or a pop up emitter. The water comes out due to the pipe having slope. The yard has virtually no slope until about the last 5ft before the side walk. This is what allows the pipe to drain out at the discharge end and not back up at the catch basin or channel drain. This system was built before we started using geo fabric at our discharge ends. Now we always put it under our pop up emitters. Best way to measure your slope in yard drainage is to use a 4-6ft level and make sure your bubble is going opposite of the way you want water to travel. For more in drainage education check out our other videos. Thank you for your interest and support!
@@StormWaterDrainageSolutions Thank you for this information! :)
@@squirrelattackspidy Not a problem 💪
Thanks! Helpful ideas.
When the water overflows at the sidewalk, since there is no slope to the yard, seems like it will resume flooding at the intake areas?
Do you place anything between the pipe you laid and the waterline that’s already there so they don’t touch or rub?
What did you use to dig your trench. I’m digging through red clay and it has been painful.
Gutters was removed from the chat 😂😂😂😂
Nice clean work. It's always nice to see people taking pride in what they do
Except the process of cutting the pipe with the hole saw in the meadow dispersing all the plastic chippings and leaving it there.
No worries. The plastic will break down in about 120 years. Plus, people probably consume that much plastic over the course of their lifetime anyway. It's like sugar on your frosted flakes.
Is the catch basin at the beginning of the pipe where it would come from the roof ?
Wish you guys were in my area of Texas could sure use a system like this.
And a lot of money would be wasted. We have Clay as soil. It's pretty much like wet concrete. Once it dries, nothing is going through it
You should use a non-woven fabric to wrap the gravel around the pipe so that soil will not choke the holes in the pipe over time.
Without that, your pipe will work for about 2 years only.
Did you miss the part where he used solid PVC out to the curb? Why would you wrap a solid pipe?
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kinda weird cuz lots are generally sloped with a 2% grade (1/8" per ft) from back towards the street (building code). I dug a sewer line from my pool house out to the front cleanout riser, next to my house, in a uniform 18" ditch the whole way. Used an 8ft framing level to check grade and it cracked the bubble the whole way.....23 yrs later still works, never clogged. We rent it out to college students now. SoCalif.
@@readmore3634 I do this kind of work for a living and I can tell you most homes have land that is sloped incorrectly.
I also generally do not use a level but rather I use a laser level and shoot the entire run. You can get into problems with a level because it only covers a few feet.
The video solution is one similar to what I have done when there is little to no available grade to carry the water away. Many times I have had my crew dig out a catchment basin to hold the water and it's been highly effective.
@@iwastoldtherewouldbenomath6869 Good to know, I just figured eventually it's gunna fill up with dirt cuz dirt doesn't soak in...it builds up.
I used ABS (plastic) pipe so it's not perfectly straight. An 8ft level and constantly shading pipe with dirt is a must down in the 6" wide ditch. It has to be pretty straight at 2% grade (1/2" of fall every 4 ft). 2% grade is actually legal/adequate but it has to be cast iron...I hate cast iron. 40 years Master Plumber, Union, journeyman, Local 364 in SoCalif. Custom houses are my specialty....lots of remodel.
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"wrap the gravel around the pipe" meaning the gravel around the pipe not the pipe itself. I guess you have not taken differential equation.
EXCELLENT job.
10/10.
EXCELLENT.
Can you use PVC in Chicago winters?
Good question! We would not recommend using PVC for yard drainage if you live in a climate zone that has freezes. PVC will crack in those conditions unless it’s below the frost line which is difficult to do in most situations when it pertains to yard drainage. Use drainage pipe made from a virgin material that can expand and contract in freezing climates.
Is the part where you put the t and 2ft of tubing down, are those 2ft of tubing solid or are they perforated?
No weed block/fabric around the catch basin and end point? just to keep the weeds from going into the pipe?
The grass roots are the fabric holding back the soil, it's organic.
no need if you dont get dirt in the basin for grass to grow in.
Great idea. Although I'd start with gutters and add your drainage system.
How do you prevent debris from building up in the pipe and if it does how do you clear the line with the drain rock at the end?
If the whole yard was flat like you said then you should use perforated pipe to catch soaking water from the saturated yard. This only drains the two areas you installed inlets at.
That was my thought. Overall I like what he did, but projecting this onto my own flat yard I thought a perforated drain tile would work without having to have a catch basin grate in the middle of the yard. But you would spend a lot more on materials.
That would be a bad Idea, for the silt from the yard would then clog the pipe. Even adding "window screen" around the piping the length of the project would be work intensive.
could you also cradle all the piping with a few inches of smaller rock underneath it and also having holes drilled throughout the piping?
Some good ideas here. This exact setup depends on what the
Porosity of the soil is A larger “French drain” might be needed in more clay like/ less draining soils. Would even consider making the whole trench, after the grate, a French drain using weeping tile, fabric and 40mm
Great 👍🏻 VIDJA Nice Job !
What kind of catch basin was used for the one where you put larger rocks inside it? It looks like a tee with six inch opening on the side.
Am amazing job 💯. Thanks 👍
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Good job.
After you said "all the water drips right off", the first step should have been installing gutters. This is treating symptoms, not the problem.
3:24 How does the water flow to the street? I thought you said that the yard had no slope?