Avoid The #1 Cause of Foundation Issues By Installing This Gutter Drain System

[Music] I'm gonna talk to you about gutter extensions gutter drain lines much like a sump pump drain line the gutters need to be extended away from the home so that you get all the the roof water runoff collected and getting diverted away from the home go on the ground that pipes will go underground and they come out this way now this is the key is this type of pipe you can buy pipe from a home supply store or local but it's rigid and it's also rigid on the inside that pipe does not work for it well it's very thin it collects a bunch of junk in the ridges this is called an N 12 type of pipe it's basically culvert pipe it's super strong you're not gonna crush it off you can see where I'm getting ready to finish this off but this pipe comes out and actually this is gonna go down a little further so smooth we can just mow over it but you can see we're leaves and everything else come in here some time time you can clean that out now this is a two foot by two foot hole three foot deep I'm sorry it's a little smaller than that but water comes out of course it rushes out when it's heavy rains and drains out like it normally would but in the wintertime when it's cold out that's when these gutters going underground do not work because the water has to come out of the ground somewhere it cannot come out of the ground then it's you got ten inches of snow and ice and it's been that way for a week and they don't work the water starts backing up so with this system you install this down to where you guys drain holes drill holes in the in the bottom for that to drain it goes through the rock gets into the earth and the earth absorbs it and off it goes and it does it all year long this dark-colored rock like this actually the Sun comes out hits this it absorbs the heat and keeps this thought out all year long so it does work well now you'll see some times where Builders and a lot of people landscapers they use these pipes and then they go to a little elbow with a green pop up so the ground you know water the water comes from the roof comes out and it pops up above the ground those are probably the worst thing you can do because how they gonna pop up they cannot pop up with the grounds frozen its solid and all those leaves and stuff get collected up in there you can't get them cleaned out so just doesn't work this is why this system does work well works all year long and this is what we see is one of them number one problems when people don't properly extend their gutters the number one cause a foundation failure around the homes [Music]

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Keywords: Kansas City, foundation issues, gutter drain

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 18 2017