How To Drain Your Gutters Underground
Depending on the trench length and more important the type of soil digging the trench with a shovel can range from relatively easy to downright impossible.
How to drain your gutters underground. Place the end of a plumber s auger also known as a snake into the underground. Continue until you have completed the trench. The pipe must be perforated on the bottom to allow the water to drain into the surrounding soil. Next he will place lengths of rigid pvc pipe into the trenches.
The easiest way to dig the. Before digging call 811 to have utility lines marked. Try to drop the. Now that the trench is dug you can assemble the catch basin.
Dig a trench eight to 10 feet long 12 to 14 inches deep and about six inches wide for each of the downspouts on your house. Assemble and place the catch basin. The trench should be at least 6 inches wide and slope down slightly 1 to 2 inches per length of pipe so water drains away from the downspouts. Pull the underground drain which is often a black corrugated plastic pipe away from the end of the downspout.
The tops of the pvc pipes have threaded fittings so i can close off the pvc if needed. After removing the downspout diverters i can easily replace them with a standard elbow and downspout the kind i tripped on to inspire this project. This is what i intend to do in the spring if the ground is still frozen when it is raining outside. How to put downspouts underground.
Dig trenches for drainage pipe.