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.
How to install gutter drain lines.
Snap layout lines photo by mary beth montgomery.
Dig trenches for drainage pipe.
Installation of gutter drain including downspout and hdpe triple wall pipe.
Now that the trench is dug you can assemble the catch basin.
The easiest way to dig the.
Don t put pipes in un compacted fill dirt.
Install downspout drain line tips.
How to install gutters in 8 steps 1.
I wanted a good way to get rainwater from the roof as far away from the house as possible.
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.
Use only 45 or 22 5 degree bends underground.
To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.
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.
Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.
Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out.
Before digging call 811 to have utility lines marked.
Call 811 to locate underground utilities.
Underground gutter drainage step 1.