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You need to install a debris collector (filter) before the water runs under ground.

You filter it previously, as Andreas has said, but also, that green little cover can be taken out, and you just need some kind of pressure washing system (maybe your garden hose would be enough) to clean the pipe. As long as it's debris that comes from the roof and not soil or roots that have gone into the pipes, you should be ok.

Thank you, guys! There are many cypresses around my house. Fragments of these trees is a nightmare. Standard drain inlets on the back yard, have too large gaps to block them. It should be very small meshes. The problem is that this is an existing drain. It was built long time ago. All drain pipes from the backyard are under the paver stones, and there is only one pop-up outlet in the middle of the small front yard. It looks like a contractor screwed up with a level. This pop-up does not work properly because it is not deep enough over the last drain inlet. I am thinking to remove this pop-up and to install a dry well. The new dry well has to be deeper under the ground level and without any pop-up, otherwise it will not work as well. That's why I am concern about this cleaning problem. The pressure washing system in this situation will not work. The only way is to have an access to the dry well tank to open it from time to time for cleaning, but it looks like, this system in video is not design for this.

It's called composting. It wont be much at all. And worms will eat it that little bit away in summer.

They are inexpensive and snap on and off fairly easy. In fact, too easy, as mine completely detaches when water comes up too fast. A better solution would be the Flo-Well Surface Inlet attachment.

If you watched the entire video then you would see they put a pop up valve that would release extra water on the surface.

Grass roots only go 2-6 inches, the well is much deeper than that and surrounded by a foot of gravel on top of that. Unless you plant a tree nearby or something it'll be fine.

it is until you go to court over it :/ Channeling water is a pretty easy civil suit these days

I’d definitely would be out there peeping the whole setup and video tapping it. Soon as my mfn basement flood.....whoops court notice and video tape. Give me my money and get your insurance company to come re-finish my basement. Two days later, on the back porch smoking weed with a drank in my hand.

bg147 Apparently you just watched the video i just did

bg147 😂

I see what you did there....

My neighbor’s water comes to my house, horrible

Hahaha I'm lol'ing! Woatah!

Yar ah wickahd retahd

He had me at rubbah hammah

I only drank at “haama”.

Waada ya tahkin' about?

Mike: Well done.

Yeah. That bothered me, also. Perf pipe after the tank.

Absolutely. I know from experience

Definitely makes sense!

"I'm givin' her all she's got Captain!"

Bill Drouillard would you recommend doing this then? I am putting a slot drain across my whole driveway in the back yard and need somewhere to put the water

Joseph Collins and u sit win the award for the dumbest response, so who do you get to reach your shoelaces for u?

Mr Stupid, what's a "sit win"? Go back to school and learn to read and write.

Heheh “deepah”

Do you also sit at the end of your driveway and yell at people to slow down? Get a life.

Oliver Stocks good tip

lmao... they did the same here. Lazy fucks. go into the ground like 10" done.

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@@lifeisgood070 yeah lets not do it correctly

@@lifeisgood070 Do you mean 10 inches or 10 feet?

Because theres so many contaminants that come off of your roof....the water runs across the shingles on your roof and the shingles contain oils and debris, along with other debris in your gutters like leaves ect

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lol. what and all the lakes and pipes from miles away carries pure freshness from beginning to end? Come-on neurons, spark! Leaf matter is harmless. Roofs should be clean. Then a little filtering before drink water is fine. Not that Amal mentions drinking water.

If it's raining, you don't need to irrigate your garden.

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they call it imagination. a hose won't show squat. it will run out the holes in the pipe fast.

No, just on the sides of the hole to prevent silt from mixing with the 3/4" stone that surrounds your basin whether concrete or plastic. The water will flow through the basin, leach through the stone, and again leach back in the soil underneath. If you have really bad soil, do an overdig underneath and fill the overdig portion with bank sand or more 3/4" stone (whichevers cheaper in your area) to give more leaching area under the stone.

Also, dont forget to fabric the top of the system so that the 6-8" of loam doesnt get into the 3/4" stone and clog it up, cut out a circle in the fabric fir the basin lid for inspection/clean out reasons.

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what does it cost to hire someone to install one of these? we need something like this on our house for the grey water(not the toilet because we have a septic tank for that, but the tub, washer, and the kitchen and bathroom sinks drain out into a pipe that just goes out from the foundation(a moron did that before we got here), and my back will not let me dig that

That doesn't block the water's source unless the source is below the well's top cap.

@@fessit thank you! Siphon basics!

Big Beef89 the NDS flo-well can be stacked to give you enough depth to get below the frost line so the well doesn’t freeze

Maybe a ton and a half. Possibly 2

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No idea what the issue is here exactly, but you could look into a few things. top of my mind would be a french drain system, but that depends on the layout of your area. Worse case is you could put a sump pump back there until you get something more permanent sorted out. If my understanding of your problem is correct, no amount of stone is going to save you. It needs redesigned and releveled. If you have the money to have a professional come out, its possible for you to have your driveway sloped in a different direction using a technique called mud jacking. That's something for just the pros though.

@@flashpointwhite 💜🌻😀thanks for répond The pump I have thought but pump to where the city locked with big humb in the back water got no where to go The driveway? It too late because the driveway got done that how the water go way from the house but back to the gardens like swimming pool I took a chance to put alot wood chips 1 of a coner it dry & nice the whole gardens big if I do it wonder water back up to the house ? I call professional come he talk me what he like to do .well same way I think can do my self too then he walk away saying " oh I am not interested " 😢 what the heck....😀 I don't wanna call no one any more I wish you could see my backyard & tell me what I could do or you do it because I like how your work 😁🌸🌻 Thanks for your advice I won't put any stone or gravel down like you said . All my plants flowers for every green dying I was thin like this in to next corner I have done nice dry I will make a big hole deeping put all big river rocks so water go there what you think ? hahaha 1 time when I just bought the house the next day I see ducks in my back yard funny I live in big city Toronto .

@@MinibiteTran m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wMbO5RIji_Y.html try this or email pics of yard, driveway, house, etc dhollings83 at g mail dot com

You want non-woven geo-fabric for proper flow rate. Plain old weed blocker fabric is not suitable.

Can I use this system in New England? Is it safe on freezing temperatures?

Depends on how much rain lands on the roof

Mike Benoit it’s not a great idea to put your address on the internet and the guys at TOH don’t read these comments and they definitely won’t come to your house if you just put this here. There’s an application process

In my area, the township no longer allows rain water run off from your roof into the street. If your property has a down hill slope then yes you can just let it run into the yard. This house's yard looked pretty flat which means the water would just sit in the yard and eventually seep into the basement. And if you direct your rainwater runoff to your neighbor's I'm pretty sure they would have a real issue with that.

So what's the solution?

that is a fact. Think about it.

Marc Brunet why would it need to? there's no water to drain in winter

Sam I agree with you. I was just trying to be clever

what happends when spring rime comes

He even said at the beginning the top would be 8 inches below grade.... I thought that was weird..

8 inches below grade, the grass needs a few inches of soil to grow.

Eric Durham the sloped top plus pop up is the 8". he's talking about the holes in the dry well, not the top... no dirt would get in through the solid top. get it?

According to the manufacturer, NDS, the top should be buried 8" below grade. This was incorrectly installed. Won't matter much, but it's just unsightly being exposed.

Am I the only one who noticed the dry well is right in front of the large entry gate ?

+Kenneth Morris My father ran corrugated pipe 30 years ago and it lasted until the roots invaded it and then the dirt flowed in.. neighbor ran a snake through it and wrecked the pipe. I went over this summer and redid the 220 feet of the French drain / pipe with 4 inch (not sure what they call it but the turquoise hard PVC pipe at Home Depot, about $11 for 10 feet.) The way I look at it, it is stronger and trust me doing any digging and gravel moving and planting should only be done once. Unless you are a farmer or just plain crazy. go big the first time and never look back!

I live in Georgia in the US and we have very tough clay soil, too, and still my shovels (which is what we call both spades and shovels) don't have handles. I've only seen handles on them in Europe and Africa. I think it's an interesting cultural difference, if you could call it that.

Richard Coles i know it's late, but if you have clay soil, i think this method is unsuitable...

The "E-tool", is a U.S. Military entrenching tool has a handle. It's a small shovel that folds and fits in a case that attaches to our equipment. I think it is just the designer and model you get available in your area, but we have shovels with handles in USA too.

Well, you guys can just use your gnarley teeth to dig.

Hey man, I bought one of those US stylee spades after ridiculing them for years (UK, clay soil in back garden, hasn't got a handle for twisting etc)....best spade I ever got. Its so long you can lever any shit out, get yerself one you will love it

yes

EppingForest304 digging always is

Schedule 40 pvc is the most expensive, self-cleaning, and joints should be glued.. Corrugated pipe is cheaper and cutting corners. I have mainly the corrugated for most of my drains and so far has been working fine.

@@AStanton1966 Okay, thanks for the advice!

@@jeffthewhiff Guy has a channel on YT called Gate City Foundation and Drainage--out of North Carolina. Check out his videos. He always recommends the Schedule 40.

I bet you do

Probably should’ve wrapped the drywall also

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@@AndrewMiguelez bags?

boxes

@@AndrewMiguelez haha!

I did drainage in MA, where 3-4 feet down is frost line. I put most of my drain pipe down below that, and my dry sinks were 6 feet down by the time I got to them. I used schedule 40 to a vent on top.

enough to do the job

@@Overfl00d so helpful, why even waste time typing that? Thanks chump

@@HydroponicTricks well you wasted time responding to me, so that's that

@@Overfl00d hmm a video designed to help the do-it yourselfer and I asked a question... seems like you're the one wasting time. Go bother someone else, you are obviously dying for attention.

@@HydroponicTricks welcome to the internet buddy

john smith By us this has been called a "French drain", and as far as I know it is not typically code-compliant. A bit far from what's know as a septic tank, but close.

Lou why is that not code compliant?

lazairman -----My bad, somehow I mixed up messages. I deleted the wrong reply. To answer, I think its just because it just saturates the soil - no real effective handling of it.

Yeah but how big is the roof feeding it. And a heavy rain it will still over flow most likely