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Love your videos! I am in PA and just moved into a new home and had my gutters replaced with the 6 inch k and 3x4 downspouts and we ran them out about 15 feet away down my front yard hill.
I added a couple of those "Y" fittings on my downspouts here in Iowa. We do have the melting you've described, and although I haven't seen a significant melting overflow on a sunny winter day, I don't ever want to see it - so I can use them for insurance. My downspout pop-up drains are all 20+ feet from my house.
I watched your other video with the P gravel and it’s funny because I had townhome association tell me the drains and gutters are leaking it was doing the same thing whoever installed them earlier only random 6 feet and put gravel at the ends so over the years it filled up with dirt and gravel and now they’re all blocked and I bid it to run it all 20 feet away.
Hi Robert. In another video where you show the clear corrugated pipe to demonstrate how to not let that water stand in the last few feet in freezing climates. Then you added a few feet of knife slit pipe at the end.. you stated that you do not use Drain Basins anymore because they hold too much water and become a block of ice. So in this video you refer to a Distribution box that you installed roughly half way to the pop up drain ? Would a Distribution Box have the same issue as the Drain Basin freezing like a block of ice ? Are a Drain Basin and a Distribution box roughly the same thing ? Only one installed in the middle of the run and one at the end of the run ? Can you please clarify this ? Do you still use Distribution Boxes on residential applications?
Hi. There's a building, with a concrete decent width walkway, a 3ft planter area1 then a 4ft brick wall. Over that wall, is the neighbor who had a planter area2 then a concrete driveway. During rainy season, water goes inside the building (which is a garage at that level) that's just below the walkway level . Besides breaking up the walkway, is there a way to route water from the building? Not allow to cover area1. thx If you have a video similar to this alteration,let me know ( I will continue to look). We've tried just painting the garage side with something that prevents water seepage but only works temporarily .
Great video but I think what you are describing at the 2 1/2 minute mark is actually an ice dam which is the result of rapid heat loss from the home (insufficient insulation) or heat trapped in the attic that can not escape which melts the snow on the roof when it is below freezing. If you have proper insulation and an attic that vents heat properly snow should never melt when it is 20 degrees and sunny. That said, I did my downpipe drains exactly as your said.
Conclusion... don't tie your gutters into corrugated pipe. And don't use pop up drains or 90 into a drain. First corrugated pipe holds water in the low ridges. Then ices up. Builds a little dam. Then the dam catches water. Then ices that up. Ices it all the way up until it hits top of pipe. Second. Pop up drains and putting drain caps on 90 degree elbows holds water there at the turn and even up stream of the pipe. It only moves water when it rains new water to push the old water out. So there's always sitting water in the pipe to ice up. If I'm connecting downspouts its always gonna be pvc pipe pitched right to the ditch or threw the curb into the street. With no pop ups or 90 degrees at the end so it still holds water. Direct pitch right out the pipe
Are you worried about capillary action at the box if it has holes in the bottom of it with it being less than 20ft away from house? Thanks for all your videos. Learning as much as I can for my DIY yard drainage project this coming spring.
I remove my downspout to keep it from freezing . I leave the top curved part of the down spout but redirect it away from the house. It's a pain in the butt in the winter but if I don't do this the down spout freezes. I call this company but they don't work in my area . I think they should expand their business.
Most of the houses in my part of NE Ohio have storm sewers, that is too bad so many of the neighborhoods up by you in MI don't. So all of this owners roof water just dumps into their front yard? Doesn't that just turn into a lake?
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Robert Sherwood is the host of The French Drain Man Channel giving all trade secrets in Building and drainage. With more then 35 years as a Licensed Builder understanding the need to do things right the first time.
Following the international code book helping DIYers around the world.
Store | French Drain Systems | Curtain Drains | Macomb, Oakland, Lapeer, St. Clair County
frenchdrainman.com/store/
FDM's Bad Seed: frenchdrainman.com/store/?model_number=fdm-mmed-di-ss-40
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Love your videos! I am in PA and just moved into a new home and had my gutters replaced with the 6 inch k and 3x4 downspouts and we ran them out about 15 feet away down my front yard hill.
I added a couple of those "Y" fittings on my downspouts here in Iowa. We do have the melting you've described, and although I haven't seen a significant melting overflow on a sunny winter day, I don't ever want to see it - so I can use them for insurance. My downspout pop-up drains are all 20+ feet from my house.
I watched your other video with the P gravel and it’s funny because I had townhome association tell me the drains and gutters are leaking it was doing the same thing whoever installed them earlier only random 6 feet and put gravel at the ends so over the years it filled up with dirt and gravel and now they’re all blocked and I bid it to run it all 20 feet away.
Hi Robert. In another video where you show the clear corrugated pipe to demonstrate how to not let that water stand in the last few feet in freezing climates. Then you added a few feet of knife slit pipe at the end.. you stated that you do not use Drain Basins anymore because they hold too much water and become a block of ice.
So in this video you refer to a Distribution box that you installed roughly half way to the pop up drain ?
Would a Distribution Box have the same issue as the Drain Basin freezing like a block of ice ?
Are a Drain Basin and a Distribution box roughly the same thing ? Only one installed in the middle of the run and one at the end of the run ?
Can you please clarify this ?
Do you still use Distribution Boxes on residential applications?
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What about adding internal heat wire the length of the down spout all the way to the discharge.
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Can this help with my next doors downspout that keeps leaking ice each winter if it finish shows and very chilly? How much does it costs?
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Hi. There's a building, with a concrete decent width walkway, a 3ft planter area1 then a 4ft brick wall. Over that wall, is the neighbor who had a planter area2 then a concrete driveway. During rainy season, water goes inside the building (which is a garage at that level) that's just below the walkway level . Besides breaking up the walkway, is there a way to route water from the building? Not allow to cover area1. thx If you have a video similar to this alteration,let me know ( I will continue to look). We've tried just painting the garage side with something that prevents water seepage but only works temporarily .
We have a complete playlist. I'm sure you can find videos to help
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Great video but I think what you are describing at the 2 1/2 minute mark is actually an ice dam which is the result of rapid heat loss from the home (insufficient insulation) or heat trapped in the attic that can not escape which melts the snow on the roof when it is below freezing. If you have proper insulation and an attic that vents heat properly snow should never melt when it is 20 degrees and sunny. That said, I did my downpipe drains exactly as your said.
Conclusion... don't tie your gutters into corrugated pipe. And don't use pop up drains or 90 into a drain. First corrugated pipe holds water in the low ridges. Then ices up. Builds a little dam. Then the dam catches water. Then ices that up. Ices it all the way up until it hits top of pipe. Second. Pop up drains and putting drain caps on 90 degree elbows holds water there at the turn and even up stream of the pipe. It only moves water when it rains new water to push the old water out. So there's always sitting water in the pipe to ice up. If I'm connecting downspouts its always gonna be pvc pipe pitched right to the ditch or threw the curb into the street. With no pop ups or 90 degrees at the end so it still holds water. Direct pitch right out the pipe
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Are you worried about capillary action at the box if it has holes in the bottom of it with it being less than 20ft away from house? Thanks for all your videos. Learning as much as I can for my DIY yard drainage project this coming spring.
No because the bulk water moves through to the discharge end. After the rain event very little water is left the leach into subsoil.
I remove my downspout to keep it from freezing . I leave the top curved part of the down spout but redirect it away from the house.
It's a pain in the butt in the winter but if I don't do this the down spout freezes. I call this company but they don't work in my area . I think they should expand their business.
What area of Michigan?
@@FRENCHDRAINMAN ...Belleville,mi
Most of the houses in my part of NE Ohio have storm sewers, that is too bad so many of the neighborhoods up by you in MI don't. So all of this owners roof water just dumps into their front yard? Doesn't that just turn into a lake?