How To Install Rain Gutter Drainage

Use wood stakes and string to mark where you should dig in a straight line.

How to install rain gutter drainage. Quickly insert one end of the pipe into the adapter and the remaining end into the elbow and allow the cement to set. Fill the hole with the stone. Set a rain barrel on top of the concrete pavers. Install a diverter in the downspout positioning it even with the top of the rain barrel.

Then using a shovel dig your trench. To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube. Flip the pot upside down and drill a few drainage holes with a masonry drill. When installing gutters set the proper slope by driving a nail 1 2 in.

To install rain gutters first you ll need to measure the length of the roof you re working with and then purchase that many feet of gutter material from a home improvement store. Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out. Set two 2 inch thick concrete pavers on the ground directly below the downspout outlet. 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.

To make the french drain work the pipe needs to be sloped away from the starting point. Apply pvc cement to the outside of each end of the cut pipe and to the inside of the elbow and adapter. Dig a hole slightly wider than the width of your pot and at least 6 deep directly underneath the downspout outlet. For every 10 feet of gutter from this measurement and mark this distance at the low end of the gutter run.

Below the shingles on the high side of the gutter run. Measure and record the distance from the bottom of the fascia board to this nail. Attach a short length of downspout to the underside of the diverter. The easiest way to dig the path of the drain is to lay out the materials catch basin and pipe.