Channel Drain in Paver Driveway, Sump Pump, Patio Drain, French Drain

hey morning Chuck carrots apple drains you know this is a fairly long video it's a very tedious job lots of finish lots of install sump pump catch basins concrete cutting channel drain and again I apologize for the length of the video but this was one large install and this is a type of install that we usually get I hope that it helps you understand all this needed to do these type of installs and I promise you you can do it yourself hey good morning Chuck here at Apple drains today we are in a town called Clermont Florida it's about an hour from Orlando and what we're doing is we're putting in some channel drains inside pavers let's take a look so this is kind of a complicated install basically what we've got to do is pull up all these pavers from right there where Chuck's digging and Joe's pulling up the pavers this is a three-car garage so it's a long channel drain as you can see comes all the way over to here once those pavers are up we'll go ahead and trench the area and we're going to set our NDS channel drain inside of a concrete bed that's the best way to get that channel drain to stay there so that it doesn't float up so the first thing you've got to do is pull up pavers get them out of the way we're also going to be putting a channel drain over in front of this garage so now it's a four car garage and everything's they already have existing down spouts drains they come over here to an existing sump pump here in the yard so we're gonna actually be tying into that existing drain once it's all dug up and we'll show you those connections as well so made quick work of pulling the pavers that's kind of tough but if you can see there's a lot of papers that were removed same thing on the other side over there we pulled up all those pavers because we said exciting our second channel drain there and as you look at this from here you can see it's got fall but water was still pooling over there in front of that garage door so we need something to gather that water so that it can be drained this line is going to tie into this downspout right here which again runs over to the sump pump they're probably the most important thing that you need to find is the drain that you're tying into remember we're not putting a new pipe in here we're tying into existing drains you can kind of see that there's the corrugated pipe it's coming from the downspouts right here and we need to make a real good connection to that this line will eventually turn and run all the way over to a sump pump over there in that garden bed over there so Joe's digging that up and chucks taking the pic and coming through here we need to have a trench for the trench drain the channel drain we're about four inches from the first course of pavers that's our guide so we need that those to stay in place as we trench we're also going to be putting in some drains over here and you can see that low spot right there where it goes into the door see that depression in the pavers this is just a paver paver job but we need to put a catch basin over here and a sump pump in order to get this water to drain back to the lake there's actually a lake back there behind that shed and it's all pavers all the way just a discharge line coming through here hopefully we can stay right there in the gravel but you can see we have to cross the pavers a couple of times to get back to that lake another course of pavers out there as well in addition right here in this corner we need to put a catch basin this floods pretty bad right here so we need to get something to drain that that will be a gravity drain as it comes out and goes over the hill to the lake so if you remember we're putting a catch basin up there by the door because these pavers have all slanted back that direction dramatically and that just plugs right into the laundry room or the utility room be prepared when you pull pavers in an older home you can see there's actually a concrete walk here patio with with pavers already cemented down and so we've got to cut that out so be prepared to do a lot of extra work each time that you excavate you don't know what's underground it's almost impossible to say but you can see the wood rot see the little sill plate there it's just you know totally rotting away there definitely needs to be a drain here and what we're doing is we're bringing from where you see Joe there's a low spot by that door we're going to end up putting a catch basin there right inside the pavers you can see how it dips down right here you see that little dip beyond the trash bag there we're going to put a catch basin there it's going to come over tie into the sump basin the sump pumps gonna lift it up and then its inch and a half pipe right alongside the pavers we found another giant pad here which is connected to the well and the well heads right there so we're going to pull a few papers here we'll trench down through alongside that concrete pad it'll turn and go over to the catch basin at that point if we have enough gravity from there to accept the pump we'll tie it into that system if not inch and a half pipe will continue alongside of the four inch pipe which is going to still run all the way out to the lake [Music] we've made some cuts with a concrete saw because there was another sidewalk another patio underneath of these pavers we're putting a catch basin right here and where I'm coming to there'll be inch and a half pipe from the pump that comes into this line then gravity takes over and sends it on out to the lake so if you can see Jose popping these out of here you just need a pry bar and you hit it just like a jackhammer until it cracks and these are big pieces I think I can see that's a four and a half inch cut so hopefully the concrete saw cuts four and a half inches hopefully we got all the way through there but again real simple to do if you do need a jackhammer you can always use one but usually you can just use your pry bar and get it to crack and then you just pry the pieces out but again this is a really thick pour I think this was a carport at one time so look maybe it's a little thicker still should be the same though should just meet you know three or four inches but you can see how easy that cracks remember there was a already a layer of pavers on there so we had to cut the concrete that is sitting on to get our drain down below so we'll remove all this and then we'll trench this out and we're getting closer to laying pipe okay so we've got the area prepped here in the driveways for the channel drain and we'll be ready to make the connection to the existing drain remember these existing down spouts drains that run over to a sump pump and that's what that box is and the ground lids behind the box sump pump back there and it actually pumps around that side of the house all the way out to the lake so we've got this prepped both sides we'll go ahead and clean this up a little bit more and then tomorrow we'll set the channel drain down in and probably get to the concrete as well you can see a nice area for the channel drained to run through we've got to make it good uphill actually you know up through the grade a little bit to come back to this dream but we'll get it to work really good we'll attach it there with a 90 and a T in to the existing drain there on this side we've got the sump pump basin installed we're ready to trench the line it'll go right alongside the pavers and then we had to pull a few pavers we'll get it to come over on this side and we've got our jackhammer back here because this concrete was so thick that we've got to use the hammer to get it out but we'll turn to line over to another cat's Basin right here in this corner there'll be another Basin here and then it'll be gravity from this point from the catch basin as it turns and runs all the way out to the lake so if you happen to have a jackhammer great makes life really quick and done here without the drains today we're on day two of this install and we're finishing up some of the detail things remember yesterday we did quite a bit of salt cutting and moving pavers things like that now we're setting cat spacing and we need to get a catch basin here by this door because waters been flooding back into the door area robbing a lot of the wood here so what we're going to do is start by just taking the catch basin apart let me show you how you do that you can use a screwdriver or if you've got a handy dandy black and decker if you can take these screws out and we're going to take the grade off and inside the catch basin there are two bushings basically one of them has a plug we're going to have a single outlet it's going to go this way so we're just going to go ahead and put this outlet on this side and it's got little slots four of them there's a space in here where they lock in place we get those lined up and then you just twist it real tight and it locks in place so this becomes a single outlet going this direction but this went on as well next we're going to set the brake back on the top I'm not going to put any screws on there yet because we have a lot more to do what we want to do is square this up to the door and I'm just going to use my eye to square it but more importantly we want to make sure we've got fall from the pavers into the catch basin so if you can see that bubble I've got a full bubble going back towards the house that means if I raise my level you'll see that there's level I don't know if you can see that bubble in the picture or not but it's got plenty of fall to come down to the catch basin same thing here we've got a full bubble back towards the house so if I raise this end of the level it's gonna make it'll find the level spot we've got downhill flow into the basin and that's really about it to set a catch basin you know I've seen lots of videos where people get so extravagant about catch basins you know it's just a catch basin and it basically catches water you call it a catch basin because you can see where the line sits here and there's a basin at the bottom debris sits in the bottom of the basin drops in only water comes out so it's called a catch basin so let's go ahead and realign that up the other thing we're going to do is we're bringing an inch and a half PVC pipe from the sump pump on that side of the house it's going to come around I'm going to drill into the side of this basin to attach it and then from here gravity is going to take it out to the lake so the first thing I did was I made a measurement from the end of this pipe to the catch basin and it's a little bit long over the catch basin because I'm going to stick it inside next we're going to use an inch and a half coupling and I like to use these big thick ones not the little ones you can see it's got real deep well to hold the pipe together also I've been using Oatley glue but this Christy's blue is an amazing glue it works really good so we're going to glue that up put it on both sides then we're going to put some on the pipe as well and I'm going to twist them on pound this one on and then twist this one on to the discharge until they come together just hold it for a second and that's that's solid next we're going to go ahead and drill a hole with our handy dandy Black & Decker and a two inch hole saw right into the side of the catch basin so next I'm going to drill a hole with our handy dandy Black & Decker into the side of the catch basin I want to be a little bit high but I've got to be at this level I can't be above here because pavers go back across this cut so let's go ahead and get that guy started in there perfect spot take that paper off [Music] remember that the two inch hole saw is the exact outer diameter of the inch and a half pipe so now I can find this right inside of here it's very tight and very perfectly inside looks really good next we'll square this up one more time and then we can start to put the discharge which is 4 inch solid pipe from the catch basin because it's gravity now so we've got a sump pump coming in it's gonna go into the basin the basin picks up surface water immediate surface water runoff from the pavers and then we discharge with 4-inch solid pipe out to wherever we're gonna go which is out by the lake ok so we've got some more excavation done basically we put another catch basin in here and this is a six inch round catch basin and I've got a square adapter so that it fits nicely inside square pavers we can line that up and wherever that's gonna sit I also have a riser so we can take this deeper and we can run a 6-inch pipe to bring this great to integrate that we want so from here that rain drum that runs over to the sump basin over there we're gonna set that sump pump up next as water comes in from the catch basin which a lot of water comes down these pavers and it floods into this area so that's all going to run over be collected and sump pumps going to lift it up then we're going to discharge I'll hook this discharge line up with a 45 or something here and then we'll come down through this direction you can see we've already kind of back filled some of this yesterday comes all the way down makes the 90 this all the concrete saw actually cut a sprinkler so I had to make a repair there and then it runs all the way over to the catch basin and from the catch basin it'll go out and where the guys are digging that's the discharge they've got a long ways to go through the gravel and through the tree roots if you can see that big oak tree back there be a lot of roots back here tough little dig they got to get on it drill our inlet line from the catch basin we need to be at this level down here so rather than cut off a nipple I'm just going to cut a new four inch hole makes a perfect four inch hole that will accept our 4-inch pipe coming from the catch basin into two sub bases next I'm gonna drill the discharge which is a two inch hole coming out the side take off our lid that just kind of protects everything switched a bit so we've got a nice two inch hole right here I'll show you that in a second okay now it's time to set up in solar m-98 this is a half horsepower pump and it's 110 volt it pushes about sixty to eighty gallons per minute that's a couple of trash cans of water every minute and steps up the same way as the m-53 we start with a male threaded inch and a half adapter that screws into this port we're going to put this in there as tight as we can with our hand next I've cut a small riser just enough to get above this bar this is a bar that protects the float right here you want to glue that in place we should hold that set now we're going to put our check bow on remember check valves only allow water to flow one way and every check valves a little different but you'll see some type of arrow that tells you the flow direction of flow these are held together with stainless steel no hub and super strong rubber works really great so get that on there and then we use our handy dandy Black & Decker with a 5/16 inch nut driver to tighten up the clamps just get them in place just as tight as your drill can make it and we're all set so we're ready to set the pump down into the pit and make the measurement from the top of the check valve up to the 90 that's going to send this water out of the sump basin so let's set this sump pump down into the basin now we're gonna make a measurement from the top of this has it has to have a 90 so it's just going to be a short little riser it'll come up and it'll tie into the discharge which is right here okay so I've got all the pieces measured and cut and dry fit them together don't forget to drill a 3/16 inch hole between the first riser and the check valve so that the hole is down here below that check valve that's a pressure relief valve hole and it just will be some water that squirts out of it but the pumps so powerful that he won't notice it at all but what that does is it keeps this from getting locked air locked there's a there's a vowel in here that you don't want to get air locked or else the pump won't pump so now we're ready to go ahead and glue things up so you can kind of see everything okay so we've got it all glued up and tightened up and we're ready to go ahead and hook up our discharge or excuse me our inlet line coming from the cat's base and we'll set that and bring that pipe through there's four inch corrugated solid pipe they'll come over to the sump basin sump pump lifts it up and carries it away hey good morning Chuck carrot-apple drains happy st. Patrick's Day I guess I just dated this video anyways we're installing channel drain here in front of two garages two different pieces of garages actually four garages let's take a look five inch NDS channel drain I like to use the 10-foot sections a little less expensive and it works really well to make your connection for the discharge you notice it's got a half round piece here and you see this little opening this actually is going to slide directly on to the channel drain it just pops in place and what that's doing is just letting that water drop down into the pipe and then the pipes going to carry it away so let's go ahead and set this up at the correct end and I'll show you how we're going to make that connection so a couple of ways you can see the pipe here we need to join two here and it's a very short run across a couple of ways to do it one is to use this adapter and this slides over that piece I just showed you and then we would run corrugated pipe to the Y or the T whichever we're going to connect with another way to do it is to run thin wall PVC I like to use PVC but sometimes it just doesn't you know match up that piece will snap right on to the discharge of the channel drain and then we still need to use this adapter that gets screwed together and then a small short insert brings it over to the Y or the T looks like we're going to end up with a Y here to make that connection and so it's just a real short little piece I think that's the best way to go here that's what we're going to do okay so we have the channel drain set our connection we started covering up tomorrow we'll go ahead and finish by concreting that channel drain down and then the paper people come back and bring the papers right over to it so basically we need to leave room so you can kind of see this we need to leave room for them to bring their paver you know right up to the channel drain itself and that's what we'll do clean this all up this one's installed this one's done same thing walk over here where you can see it and it's ready to go we just need to concrete it down we'll blow that all off clean it off great connections remember when you make these connections to screw them together because they really do try to come apart real simply and we've got you know real good downhill run as it runs over and goes over it connects to the downspout drain so we've blown off the sidewalk the pavers remember the paving company is going to come in here behind us and recut and pave to get all the pavers back in place but everything's installed and we're ready to go here it's a little bit of cleanup and move some more of these brick stack them up get them out of the way sucks blowing everything off over here is gonna blow off this patio and it'll pretty much be done okay so we're getting ready to set the channel drain the first thing that we did of course showed you how we hooked it all up but now we're going to protect the grates by putting some blue painters tape across it that just keeps the concrete from getting down in there and they can easily pull that right off and we're done remember I showed you the connection there of the Y we've already kind of covered that up we'll do the same thing on the other side over here cover that with the painters tape and then we're going to be setting that one you know to the proper grade and then concreting it in so here we're mixing up you know the concrete that's holding that channel drain down in place we've got several things that we use as a guide remember that pavers are going to be put back up to grade so in other words we're not setting the channel drain in concrete which is a better way to do it but it looks pretty nice when you put pavers all the way across so the only thing that you see is the channel drain okay so we just got you know about four feet more to go remember how we're doing this is we're not bringing this concrete to grade they're going to put pavers back so basically we're holding that channel drain down in place we've got a real nice pitch you know this perfectly level coming across the existing channel or existing pavers sorry and so when they put the pavers back you can see my trowel they'll have to cut to size but it'll fit perfectly right here and lean right up against you can kind of see I'll give you the example see we're perfect all the way across so they'll have a nice fit all the way down through same thing on this side and it really is it might seem like that's a lot of work but it's really quick with a concrete saw you cut pavers in a matter of seconds so we've got a nice channel drain going on we're almost finished with this side then we'll kind of sweep it off a little bit then we just have another ten feet to go on the smaller garage again this was a tedious job so you know this was a fairly large job something that the homeowner could definitely tackle themselves it's not hard to do as long as you think of it as smaller jobs you know we did you know quite a bit of work here but break it down make it three for smaller jobs the channel drain is the tedious part of all of this because it's a finish and it would be like finishing the kitchen putting the cabinets in it's something that you will always see underground drains hey they could do whatever they want nobody can see them but if you got a finished product got to take your time hey this is Chuck with Apple drains reminding you that if you believe you can do something I guarantee you can do it have a great day [Music] don't forget about Live Help video consultation via Skype just fifty dollars per session we can answer any question and help with any project look us up online apple dreams calm [Music] hey this is Chuck with Apple drains reminding you that if you believe you can do something I guarantee you can do have a great day [Music] the

Channel: Apple Drains

Views: 100,089

Keywords: channel drain, trench drain, driveway drain, patio drain, catch basin, Apple Drains, Drainage Contractor, US, Florida, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Boca Raton, California, Seattle, Portland, Crawl Space, Sump Pump, Zoeller M98

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Length: 27min 43sec (1663 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 20 2018