Backyard Drainage Solutions - Catch Basin, swale, PVC Pipe 

Looks like a nice job but disturbingly not including followup rain footage will certainly be discussed in a special appointment with my therapist, good sir.😇🤣

Shawn, old man, it is comforting to see a drainage job again. It is also encouraging that PHD’s are getting some work.😊✌️✌️👍🇨🇦🇺🇦

I miss the after-job rain footage, but could get as easily addicted to pre-job rain footage....

I guess this homeowner was well pleased he found you and the team to sort ot his mess.

A job looking nice is just that.....without the rain footage we can't see if you solved the problem......Which is the main reason for us watching these drainage video's........A nice job......Not really much else to say.

Finally, some dopamine from a Gate City Foundation Drainage video. Can't wait to see the next one. Amazing job, Shawn.

I love swales!! They can be a really good improvement in water flow issues, and this one your team did is GREAT!! Also enjoy the drone work by Lynn, very nice touch. Big job and well done Shawn!!

Thanks for pulling this out after so long.

Great job, as usual. Rain footage is definitely needed

Nice job! Amazing how fast you can do these jobs with all the equipment you have. I was looking forward to seeing the new lawn and rain footage. I guess I need to console myself and imagine it working brilliantly.

Lynns drone work is outstanding. Sometimes guys get all too technical and fixed in their thinking. But a lot of females have that artistic eye for getting the best out of a vista. If it was left to shawn, it would be a drop shot from on high to eye level. You are both learning from each other!

A hard working young lady.

I feel your concern about dumping the property water onto the neighbors. Although it's been doing that for a long time it would have been great to come up with a solution where the water goes to the road. Just my 2 cents : )

That area where the PVC dumps into is perfect for a garden! 😉

The harley rake is so satisfying.

It is great that you have such a talented team that you can have several jobs going on at one time at the worksite.

ah man! was getting that itch of needing some more videos!

In some of the 1970's areas of town where I am at they have fences and the back yards are all sloped like that. The fenceline runs right down the center of the "Neighborhood Swale." Some of the later developments have the same grading, but cinderblock walls run down the center of that swale instead. The give away is where 4 or 5 blocks are missing a course or half course up from the bottom of the side walls between neighbor houses... We get storms rarely here, but when the come, they dump lots of water in a hurry. The swale and cinderblock allows most of it to run off and spreads it out into a bunch of foot or less deep puddles to soak in or evaporate with in a week. It succeeds keeping water AWAY from the house and is supposed to help regenerate the aquifer. It also save the developer and expense on utilities that did not have to be installed to handle a HUGE storm, just big ones.

Thanks for sharing!

Yes it would have been interesting to see the rain footage especially what was going through the neighbor's yard on a heavy rain. I would have been as skeptical as you were about running water on the neighbors property.

Your YT channel is so helpful thank you

In Phoenix, since water is such a valuable item, our swimming pools, most of them have channel drains around the pool to catch with kids and people going in and out and the water runs back into the pool via a channel in the crete... but this only works on new pools as the drains become clogged within days of building the pool and no one ever flushes and cleans them... they just pack full of debris until water is going everywhere, LOL.

My boyhood home had a back yard that was painfully flat except the house behind us, their backyard sloped toward ours. In heavy rainstorms water would stream up at the end of the yard, ie a swale. The end of the next door's yard was an open drainage system. So the swale worked only if there was enough water to fit around the openings Otherwise, it would flow further downhill to the next house with an opening. We were lucky that someone had black walnuts up stream floated down and fell into what I could only believe a rodent hole and it grew. But it was taken down the year it produced fruit.

Good job ear defenders Shaun 😊

As usual really good job done Shaun, and excellent teamwork, a wet video would be good seeing how the system is working 👌👍

Looks great smoothing it out made all the difference, was about to say Surely some dirt or grading will be done behind those basin's instead of leaving it rough, Night & day difference for sure.

UGH! You're killing me not showing the rain footage lol. I was so looking forward to that! Good job though!

This sounds like the time to work with the neighbor to keep the discharge in the two drainage pipes and continue the pipes across the neighbor's yard and into their street. Maybe catch a few of the neighbor's gutters while you're there.

I just wonder what the neighbor really thinks when it rains. Oh well. Cheers for another interesting project.

Thanks Shawn. Yeah Buddy……Harley rake

Please keep up the great work!

I'm like you. I'd have been worried about the water going into the neighbors in the back, but if they're okay with it, what do you do? It turned out all right 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

Great to see rain footage of the problem area before the drains are installed. Nice teamwork on this job (as usual). Why not pipe the customer channel drain directly into the new pipe instead of that square catch basin?

Great work as usual!!

Good job (as expected). That yard was pretty rough when you started. Would like to see how it all turned out.

Looks good

Love this video. Thanks

Rain footage is nice but not necessary. You can always make a quick update video if you ever get it in the future

Do you ever do or suggest rain water collection system? Maybe they can do a waterfall in the back corner to use the water it collects?

Good video. I was apprehensive as well draining water to the neighbors property. I would assume he looked after the water coming onto his property prior to you showing up.

Just once get tacos or burgers for lunch 😂😂😂

Was there a reason why you didn't recommend pumping some or all of that water to the street? It would be great to see a follow-up with it raining!

Hope it all goes well for your customer, all it needs is one new neighbour that isn't happy getting all that water diverted to his property and your customer gets in trouble... Was there no way to get that water out to the street? Otherwise great job and nice filming it, as we are used to see from you! Thx for showing! 👍👍👍

Aquaman 3 should star GCFD and Jason Momoa.

Sink a water tank in the ground and a pump to use that water on the garden or for whatever through a filter, thats what we did in southern Spain and neighbor problem is gone!. Nice video Shawn.

Any chance of seeing the results when it rains - the money shot as they say 😀

Maybe the neighbor hired you to take the water on down to the street yep there not much you could do other then what you did oh good team work on this job made ever thing go smoothly.

Nice work with the draining solution. Homeowner needs to address the water collecting in his retaining wall.

You've got to switch to concrete basins with metal grates when possible. Those plastic grates just get clogged with yard-thatch too easily, though I'm aware concrete-basins triple the cost but the larger intake-slots offer a different level of less-maintenance (to note I wouldn't offer a heavy concrete basin on land that uses the old OSSFs(sewage) b/c the culture around that old technology is way too soggy to warranty any product put in the soil. My State has rules on new OSSFs requiring stormwater-drainage but it's not enforced b/c the county's employees have immunity to suggest we must pay extra to get access to the State's Water-Code(laws on drainage).

Geophysical engineer

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Is that hay or pine needles you spread in the yard?

I’m a little surprised you didn’t trim the pipes at the outlets to match the ground level. It would make so you could run a mower over it, make less of a trip hazard and it would look better, almost making them disappear to eye. Did you put any kind of rodent guards at the outlets? I guess if they get in there it wouldn’t take much to wash them out, like a good rain. Lol

Nice job Shawn! Do you usually keep a lot of videos lined up just waiting to get rain footage?

What about the house on the other side of the fence? It seems to me they won't be too happy with all the extra water.

Wouldn't have you guys anywhere near my house doing work

You've spoiled us with rain videos of afterwards! But what if the neighbors wanted to continue the lines from the catch basin to dump on the edge of their property? Have you done cross property drains before?

What drone do you use?

Those mini bobcat don't have a model with a motorbike seat at least?

Really wanted to see what you sent to the neighbor with the direct route.

We demand rain foooooooooootage!

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Do you have advice about digging over residential water mains in NC? I'm about to do something similar. I plan to call 811 to get it marked and hand dig around it. But I'm still worried about hitting it with the shovel and breaking it.

Whats the straw for?

Are your helpers full-time employees, or do they have other jobs and do this as side work when you have jobs?

Yeah likely that neighbor didnt much care since there was that big pile of dirt blocking it from going onto their property. Im sure they noticed the influx of water now the piles of dirt are gone. It is what it is tho.

So you collected the water and drained it into the two basins but no drainage to empty the basins or did I miss that?

why have catch basin outlet at the top? whole bottom will be full of water causing mosquitos!

This home seems to be high ground, What happens with the water, going towards the lower level homes,

Why would you put two big catch basins right next to each other. It doesn’t look good! 20:25

I dont blame you mate.

No rain footage. Ughh.

so this swale needs to be called out

no after footage.

Neighbors going to love their shed get flooded. I am glad I don’t have neighbors and lots of property.

Why are your videos so far apart and in between the last one must have been months ago?

Not to be a butt head, but I'm thinking to myself, how much standing water will be in those two catch basins? I guess you can always use those "Dunk tablets" to control the mosquito population...

Why not pump the water to the street? I wouldn't let a homeowner get away with discharging all that water onto a fence line.

Why not talk to the neighbor behind him and find the low point or a real drainage point, seems the water wants to go to the back of the yard, why trap it, this is my assessment at 1:53, I stopped the video and will watch more now.

She needs to be called out, some man in your audience may take her away !

Love you americans. Promise

Go an buy a digger man for god's sake

catch basin concrete job look atrocious

👎🏻 Sadden to watch this video and to not have Rain Footage, you could have put that information in the video description and gave us the option to watch.

A bit of weed we know.

Why do you always put hay on top of the dirt?

i have that same seed spreader, which setting do you like to use?

The neighbors are OK with it until they are not. Good vid Shawn.

Hindsight is 70/40.

Needed to pour a set of steps and tie those in with the catch basin. That would have looked better. Those rickety steps tho!!

Thumbnail says "SoluTTions" when you get a chance to fix it!

Landscape guy probably took a bribe to stop water going into the rear property. Better to find a solution via drain thru the rear house.

A smart man would have up sold to the downstream neighbours and piped right through to the next road.

What rake are you using at 21:10 for leveling?

So, let’s see if you answer me with your rigid drain cleaner what size do you use 3/8 by 75’ or 1/2 by 75’

12:57 how is the catch basin size determined? I see the pipe going in is pretty big. I understand the water will not fill the pipe but i do assume the catch basin will fill relatively fast if is lets say 3-4 gallons. Yet another good job here!

I fast-forwarded to see if you guys did anything with those rotten steps. Dang those are bad. A rocky creek bed would be cool where you cut the swale.

How’s that dichwitch run? Ever have any problems with it?

That long driveway and patio is what's going to send a lot of water back there. No grass to absorb any water. It also looks like he could be sending front and rear roof water to the back. The patio around the pool adds a lot of runoff too. Not sure how long the dirt was pressed up against the fence, but if it was there before the cement work, it ain't gonna be good. As far as the swale and pipes directing water toward the back neighbor's property, the yard is supposed to be graded away from the house, so water will run down there anyway. The pipes will send it down faster. If the neighbor piles dirt against his side of the fence, the water will flood the far end of your customer's yard. I don't know the lay of the land of the neighbor's property, but if it runs downhill, he could grade the yard to channel the water away from his house. No matter how you slice it, your customer's cement work will end up screwing the neighbor.

dont think the neighbors had much argument anyway its not like you were diverting a natural water run just doing work on the areas were it runs anyway! Its intresting to watch these videos as someone who lives in the uk we get flooding issues etc but our communities have access to larger public drain systems,they aint always fantastic but it makes jobs like this easier to find somewhere for the water to go