How to Measure SLOPE for Under $5 DIY Must Watch!!!

[Music] okay we gave you guys a blueprint with the burrito wrap and it's a fail-safe for the DIY we want you to stick with it it'll keep you out of trouble and then all the questions came in and we ended up throwing you in the French drain man spin cycle and I ended up with some confused di wires so we are gonna go right back to the basics starting with slope and then we're gonna show you how you can do a combo installation sump pump discharge line along with a French drain a frequently asked question that we get in our comment section is how do i as a homeowner figure out slope I'm gonna show you how to do that for under five dollars take one of your shovels jump on it in the trench or it could be outside of the trench you'll see why I didn't have much room to work with here so jump jump on the other shovel have yourself a hundred inches in between measure it to be a hundred inches so I am a hundred inches between shovels now if one inch if this measure is one inch higher from the bottom of the trench to the string then it does upstream here because we're draining it to the corner of the yard then that would mean I have one percent slope and I'll show you I'm going to give you an example so make sure your line level bubbles beat right in between the right in between the lines there make sure bubbles so that line is level all right so let's let's see what we measure at here okay so we're 50 inches from the bottom of the trench to the level line let's go down here now we're downstream or downstream keep in mind all right so we're 53 inches that means we have three inches of drop in a hundred inches of run that means there's three percent slope on this trench I hope this helped all my di wires out there here's some dual wall some dual wall Baughman dual wall six-inch tile taped you know we get a lot of questions about the downspouts you know like here I got a short gutter run and there I got a shirt gutter won't run so we basically tied two four inch into a four inch once we get to a third we're going to 6 inch we need screwing around we want to make sure that we handle that roof water I don't want it to back up and end up overflowing along the footing of the home causing a water problem possibly in their basement as you can see we work on plywood like we always do we get this in we're going to mend the sprinkler line like we always do we just cut those get the system in go ahead and put couplers and clamps and as you know we cut the sod off when we leave it looks just as we found it but again here's a nice DIY point you know and as the DI wires if you're you know slowly chipping away at a system by a few pieces of plywood to do this it makes it easy to shovel off and you could move it like do a section at a time maybe 200 inches at a time you know and I was gonna say if you want one percent slope and you want to string the shovels further apart you can go 200 inches and dig until you've got two inches of drop to get to your 1% if you want 2 percent on a 200 inch run you need 4 inches a drop so you can do that if you don't want to go just hundred inches you want to bump it up but I'm trying not to confuse you guys and put you in some sort of a French drain man spin cycle I know I have a tendency of doing that so I'm trying to make this as clear as possible all the units aren't inches 100 inches apart I measured in inches so however much drop you have in inches 1 inch equals one percent slope two inch equals two percent slope and so on and like I said if you wanted to extend this to 200 inches then you got a double it two inches equals one percent slope four inches equals two percent slope on a two hundred inch run if you want to space the shovels out further but for just starting out do your 100 inches and shoot for your one inch a drop downstream all right we've had a lot of good questions great questions they're all good questions all of them so this is a slip bushing it's three to one and a half and we leave usually about three inches here so in the frost heaves this in the winter and the north this can move and then we want a few inches inside it as well so that if this settles a little bit there's no gap and this doesn't come apart the slip bushing you don't glue it this is your freeze protection so well if this did freeze which four inch does not typically it would have a way out so don't flood the basement in the wintertime so we can't get this below frost we can't now explain why and also explain why we use four inch PVC because I know it's it's big money it's a big upgrade going from three inch to four inch schedule 40 most contractors don't like to do it they don't like to spend that kind of money I've seen three inch PVC crack in the frost I've seen it many many many times 4 inch however is much different four inch when you increase the diameter of a pipe of the same material in anything it gets stronger now this is the code this is not going to be inspected by the way so I want to make that clear this is not going to be something that will end up having to have the building department out here which is good because they're pain in the ass but anyways we're still gonna do everything the code so you don't want to do another 90 because it's not to code you only get one ninety and that's just to get this thing out of the house and in the ground that's it that's the only 90 or loud then if you have to make something like a 90 you do like a 45 and a 45 in this case they did a 22 and a 45 and you want to leave a nice big gap in between them too because we don't want to slow that water down the guys did a real nice job we're also going to drop in the Baughman high-octane right on top of this schedule 40 and that's gonna be sweet and it's gonna be sweet so this homeowner saved a ton of money by getting everything done at once now I love the Belle dens because they're twice as deep as just a coupler by itself so we buy the commercial we just go to the commercial plumbing supply stores Home Depot don't have this stuff Lowe's don't have this stuff I have been able finance big-box stores see how shallow this is this is crazy shallow I mean this is just stupid shallow so we have our discharge for our PVC sump line and we have our discharge for our Baughman high-octane and when this thing fills up with water you know got a catch basin here which it's not going to see any debris because this will be a wrapped system we're gonna do wrapped we got our 5 foot in with fabric we're gonna put the high octane in with some stone and burrito wrap it and then it's gonna have cobblestone on top and it's gonna have a dry creek bed appearance because there's no sprinklers here I'm just gonna look really sweet so this is a great way to save money to get your sump line ran the same time as your French drain and again when they're not deep you know because we see the top of the culvert pipe is right there and you got the water I was here when when the water was quite high in this and I was able to at that point judge where we needed to hit this four inch schedule 40 super strong guys it costs a few more bucks but the way I see it what's it gonna cost you if you got to go back because the frost you know just totally has its way with this stuff you know just beats it all up the four-inch will take it the other thing I've learned over the past 30 years 4-inch displaces more water which makes it harder for it to freeze harder for freeze up in four-inch verse three inch guys this is extremely important in the North we're gonna use this trench for the sump line a French drain and we're gonna grab this downspout here and downspout there we started our French drain right here with our high-octane so you can see the PVC schedule 40 and the high-octane in this whole run side-by-side this is done in 20-foot PVC schedule 44 inch look at these connections how far they are apart yeah here's the next one no far it is 20 feet so less connections mean something you know just less room for problems now we use these bail look at that I just love that so deep it's not coming apart in all honesty we could probably get away without gluing it but we just do it just because everything we do is over build you know kind a little bit overkill but you know up here in the north you have to build like that so there Marcelo went ahead there's your hydraulic concrete you know it sets up super quick make sure you always use hydraulic concrete the building departments like if somebody walked up on this project right now even though and it didn't need inspection sometimes it happens so first thing they're gonna do is look and see what we did they're gonna see this hydraulic concrete and say all right you guys are all right and this has happened that's why I bring that up that has happened so and and more than you'd think look at that I love that look at that that is just that is just crazy look at that that's that's awesome love it love that pipe alright so Scott's got this aggregate it's the shape of an egg it's like inch and a half cobble nice smooth round rock and it just flows water like crazy we're going to burrito wrap it and then this can be a dry creek bed they have a really cool look and then put some of that rock on top of our burrito wrap so this kind of a fun job I like these combo packs because the homeowner really makes out on these deals I mean for one excavation they're getting their sump line done their French drain done you know they're taking care of everything and look it you see how between the landscape the way the beds are look at how that PVC schedule 40 in those 20 footers you could actually serpentine them through yeah I love working with that stuff I know it's hard to handle and a lot of times it's hard to transport but it does a good job so combo packs di wires do this stuff at the same time do one excavation homeowners hire us to do both at the same time because discharging water typically always goes to the same point that's the only place there is the take this too so just some pointers to save the homeowner money save the DIY guy some money here's one of my rock stars now hey Francisco alright so right where the French drain starts the guys put six a in it's like a three-quarter half inch three-quarter stone because we can pack it around the pipes nice and tight and then they're gonna bring in this monster aggregate this really Knight that this is the size of a size and shape of an egg and it moves a crazy amount of water but we're packing we're packing this double-barrel system getting the half inch and 3/4 Rock around it because you're not going to be able to get that aggregate that's the size of an egg so that's going to give it its strength so big giant lawnmowers can run over it you could you know put a shed over it whatever happens happens here and I don't have to worry about it this is gonna last forever you have product in the ground we have the buffman high octane we have PVC schedule 40 and [Music] we have some Baughman dual wall culvert pipe we have the four-inch culvert pipe smooth on the inside corrugated on the outside for strength all those products are estimated to last 200 to 500 years so needless to say this system pretty much is going to last forever it's going to last a couple lifetimes alright guys until next time let's all work hard to do it right the first time we're going to keep it simple udi wires stay tuned for more high octane

Channel: FRENCH DRAIN MAN

Views: 213,191

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Keywords: Yard Drainage, Yard Drainage Contractor, how to install a french drain, perforated drainage pipe, how to build a french drain, french drains, french drain pipe, what is a french drain, french drain co

Id: F5d-47POqbo

Length: 16min 10sec (970 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2019