Underground Roof Gutter Drain Pipe

well I finally decided to get rid of the gutter downspouts that I've had in my art for a while and this is what I had it was just a piece of three inch PVC pipe with an elbow that connected to the downspout here problem is kept washing out all the wood chips that we had here so what I did is I went to Lowe's and I bought this section of blacks solid corrugated pipe and I'm going to connect it to the downspout bury it just below the surface and then I bought this section of irrigation pipe and it's actually thin it's not a PVC pipe but this is solid as well you can also get them with cuts in them to drain out and I'm going to connect it to the gutter bury it connect that and at the bottom I have an elbow and a drape cap so it'll sit flush to the ground another option is you can buy this corrugated pipe and you can see that this has drain holes in it little cuts this was $35 for a hundred feet you can also get it with a sock on it a white sock and that's another thing that's like fifty or fifty-five dollars so for thirty-five dollars you can get a hundred feet I'm going to use this for a different project in the backyard otherwise this would be a good option because you can bend it and twist it the problem with these straight sections is they're stronger but you can't bend them and you can see that I have to go around a bend here and you need that bendability around there so you don't want to deal with elbows and things like that so I could have used that pipe over there and just bent it all the way around bent it up and then put a cap on it but I'm just trying to get rid of some sections of pipe that I have I think this pipe here was about four or five dollars and this year came very compact and I think this was around $10 but you see I have to go a little bit deeper here there was some rocks and some roots that okay to cut and I've had to use a shovel and axe and this spud bar here and I do have a gas line but I'm assuming that's three or four feet deep so I'm just going you know a couple inches below the surface I'll backfill it you can also backfill it with sand or stone if you want there's actually a lot of stones in here so I'm going to backfill it with that also we have clay soils here in Michigan which does not drain so you could put sand in here if you wanted but I'm assuming all the water's going to go out and up the drain and we do have a little bit of fog a little bit lower from there to there you can't go higher the water won't drain so it's a little bit lower at that end so hopefully the water coming out will drain all the way out into the drink and another thing I wanted to point out was this was a downspout that I did many years ago and I had to dig under under this sidewalk here and this was a solid PVC pipe I had to do an elbow did underneath and I did a connection here to a slotted PVC piping and here's the drain and this has worked well you see the elbow down in there and this has worked well I've had no problems because there's quite a bit of foam in there there so you gutter is you know half a foot higher so we got to make sure there's some fault at this I use solid PVC because it was a straight shot okay so here's what it looks like a couple hours later I'm just test fitting it getting this flush with the ground there's the straight pipe and I did have to use a little section off that large spool to get it to fit on this graded end that connects there you can see all the routes that I had to deal with this area of soil it's good up until here and then it became rocky hard this I had to use the spud bar to get this up this took a lot a lot of time and then you can see I'm going to kind of just sit it over the end there so now I'm just going to back fill it with the soil progressí down one more thing I forgot to mention is that this pipe is about three inches three four inches and I went down about I don't know six or eight inches so there'll be you know three four inches of soil on top okay and here it is all done I back filled all the soil I put some grass seed down and I raked it all smooth and I did leave it a little bit high because I expect it to settle a little bit so I left it a little bit high in total it took about two or three hours and it cost about twenty twenty-five dollars but it could be cheaper if you only had one section but I wanted to go all the way out where I knew it was much lower so that's it it's a quick afternoon project and you get rid of those gutter downspouts that just end right here and now the water should hopefully drain all the way out to the end and not be anywhere near these foundation rocks and again I expect this might settle a little bit I might have to come back and put a little dirt but that's good for now well I hope you liked the video you just watched if you did feel free to subscribe by clicking the button on this side you can also check out all the videos I've done the playlist from things I've built things I've fixed home repair 3d printing 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Channel: Dave Wirth

Views: 325,181

Rating: 4.5486064 out of 5

Keywords: downspout, drain, gutter, roof, roof drain, underdrain, french drain, pipe, pvc, lowes, home depot, cost, clog, how to

Id: 0UZKSLWgrWE

Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2017