Flooded Yard Draining - Quick, Easy, Efficient Sump Pump Drainage System

hi Blair Gilbert here for mr. hard work on Gilbert's Pro hard were in st. Clair Shores to show you a quick easy efficient yard drainage pump system [Music] hi I'm out here in my yard and with all the rain and the high water and Hurston's island it has been flooding and just inundating my yard all my low spots so what I do to get rid of water in the low spot is I take a five-gallon bucket affectionately known as a pickle bucket you'll notice I drilled holes in it all the way around what you can see here you go is I didn't drill holes more than halfway down the bucket I stopped halfway I don't need to suck mud off the bottom what I did is this is my better landscape fabric here and I took the landscape fabric I wrapped it around the bucket over the holes twice and you can see some sheet metal screws I put through the fabric just to keep it from settling and moving on me I attached a check valve to my sump pump her turns out a two inch burn cuff is a good size to go over an inch and a half fitting and of course I have my pump running this rain water out in the lake so there I dug a hole dumped in the hall all that fabric keeps it from filling dirt and then in a week maybe less when it quits raining I can take and just put the dirt back in the hole throw the side back and you won't even know I did this but the pickle bucket the holes in the top half make a quick homemade drainage system quick tip keep the yard drive mr. hardware calm you

Channel: Mr. Hardware

Views: 101,407

Keywords: frond yard sump pump, flood pump, back yard sump pump, outdoor sump pump, backyard sump pump, pumping flood water, sump pump drainage outside, yard drainage solutions, drainage systems, stormwater management, backyard drainage solutions, backyard drainage, standing water in yard, yard water drainage, wet yard, property sump pump

Id: IXnRnhyje3Y

Length: 2min 9sec (129 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019