Don t put pipes in un compacted fill dirt.
How to install gutter drain lines.
Now that the trench is dug you can assemble the catch basin.
Before digging call 811 to have utility lines marked.
How to install a drain pipe in a flower bed how to unclog a landscape drain pipe the downspouts on your house s guttering system carry many gallons of rainwater off your roof and onto your yard.
Determine what works best for your house before ordering gutters and attachments.
Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out.
Snap layout lines photo by mary beth montgomery.
Use solid sdr 35 pvc pipe.
To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.
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Installation of gutter drain including downspout and hdpe triple wall pipe.
Call 811 to locate underground utilities.
How to install gutters in 8 steps 1.
Use only 45 or 22 5 degree bends underground.
Before installing gutters rainwater from the roof fell to the ground and didn t flow anywhere before soaking in to the soil hence large spring rains lead to water in the basement.
I wanted a good way to get rainwater from the roof as far away from the house as possible.
Assemble and place the catch basin.
Mark the highest point of the gutter run on the fascia 1 inches below the metal drip edge flashing on the extra wide fascia shown here the gutter is lower down.
Dig trenches for drainage pipe.
Underground gutter drainage step 1.