Solving flooded basement with PVC drainage pipes + Catch basins
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2020
- This homeowner's basement was flooding every time it rained. His whole neighborhood has water and drainage issues with water flowing from one house to the next until finally it stands at the low point. Here, we didn't have a great place to take the water so we made some outfalls out of riprap rock further away from the house. I wonder what the homeowner plans to do with the fleet of pumps and fans he had on standby for basement duty after the rain.
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There's nothing like watching a system you built at work. I have 3 sump pumps at my house. 2 under the house and 1 that catches standing water outside the house before it enters crawl space. Every time it pours, I can't help but put my water boots and a coat on and go out and watch it all run.
I agree! I like seeing the systems working as well and seeing that problem water flowing down the way...
Drain guys always deserve the best lunch!!♡ And the funkiest hats!
Haha!
Good job. If I were the customer, I would put a powerful sump pump in behind the carport and pump the water out of there. I could not live with what they have.
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I need to do create a drain system for two of my down spouts. I’ve found your advice to be the most helpful out of other videos on RUclips. Thank you!
Thank you! I really try to focus on the best possible solution with these systems. You can't fight water, so you might as well give it a good path and let it take it.
Fantastic
Great job as usual...your videos convinced me to put pvc drainage around my home..didn’t realize how many problems rain water can cause..greetings from Texas...
You won't be sorry you used high quality pipe! Good luck!
Good job gentlemen 👍🏻 Greetings from 🇸🇪
Thank you! 👍
I see you representing the Jamaican colors. Big ups ❤
That's such an easy fix if you use gravity like the city water towers do. The fix is this simple, remove the gutter down spouts and replace with glued 4" PVC pipes tied in all the way to the curb. As water enters the down spouts, gravity will force the water to seek the path of least resistance. As more water fill's the vertical PVC pipe, the pressure to escape builds and that is how the water will drain...let the water gravity force the pipe to drain.
Would a French drain have worked at the bit of the house where there was a spring? I was thinking it would be good to build one there to catch and remove that water. 🤔
Been binge watching your vids and I am so enjoying them. Love the bits where you show just how much water is being removed through your systems. It must be horrifying for the home owners to have that much water trying to get into their homes before you come and fix it for them 😊
Yes I'm usually solving problems for homeowners who are at their wits end. Many of which are being told different things from different people!
Where do you buy your catch basins?
This place looks like THE Perfect Job for catch basins and heavy duty sump pumps to get the water out of the pond that's masquerading as a yard and onto the street where it can flow into the city storm drains...
Indeed! The H.O. was fine with sending the water to the back though. It does eventually leave through a culvert.
Shaun, are you allowed to divert rain/surface water onto neighbouring properties. Don't the PVC company manufacture square to circular connections? Great video mate.
6:40, with that aggressive fall into a sanitary tee, I wonder if the water isn't crashing into the far side of the tee and losing a lot of its energy, then just free-falling from there (sacrificing all the fall it used to get to that point). I'm thinking maybe take that pipe into a street 45 into the side of a wye, to try to turn that stream downward without slowing it down. Worth it? Waste of a couple fittings? I don't know. Just a thought. I definitely like how solid that pipe is, going through and area that is obviously used for storage. Well done.
Yes we often use a wye and street 45 to create a combination wye if the fall is lower.
interesting here about three feet down is a layer of Caliche it varies in thickness but is like cement. If you bore a 3 to 4 foot diameter dry well you can dump into those but of course we are lucky to get 10" of rain a year.
We get much, much more rain here!
@@GCFD yes i know my dad was from the South
@@GCFD we also get that in just a few storm
Take all your shovels and edged tools to a grinding wheel every month. Keep them sharp with a hand file
Having sharpened digging tools makes such a difference!
The problem isn’t corrugated pipe, it’s the cheap NDS corrugated pipe. Use Bauchman Pipe, it holds up and is better in French Drains.
How is it better than PVC?
Shawn, its really strange people put in that black corrugated plastic pipe that actually goes no where at all. The really strange part is they put it in knowing the pipe goes no where as if it's going to magically get rid of all the water any way. I think the pipe needs to be deemed the old black magic drain pipe. I personally feel it and most all corrugated pipe should be outlawed the only thing this pipe consumes is hard earned money.
Haha I see it all the time with the corrugated pipe.
What did you do to the bottom of the basin?
Drilled some weep holes for the residual water to escape.
4:00 omg nooo, my basement!
Yikes!
what pump are you using?
Zoeller M98.
In a situation like this it would have being a better idea to bring all roof rain water to one 4 by 4 by 5 ft deep central basin with two 2 inch Zoeller sump pumps into one 3 inch discharge line to the street, yes it would have cost more but a better set up.
You could have done it that way. We didn't because the outfall was downhill and by that point the water wasn't harming anything. Great comment!
when would you use a catch basin?
Use a catch basin with you can install it at a low point and have fall away from it.
All the trees are always filling up the gutters too ,trim back the trees best as possible .What I have done in the past with heavy trees around the house put catch basins at the down spouts to catch over flow from gutters plus hooking up gutters .Dumping water on the side of the house is never a good idea just carry your pipe all the way past the side of the house .
Great advice Billy!
The one pipe next to the garage looks like its on the neighbors line and will flow into his yard.
Can that be a problem ??
If you have great neighbors it's not a problem! I make sure that everything I do is good with everyone. I've turned down jobs where there was no good way to "not screw the neighbor."
Where do you get those large catch basins?
I get them from my local landscape supply house, SiteOne.
I suppose you could always use a big plastic dustbin.
@@keithsawyer6356 i feel like it would probably collapse though since those arent meant for pressure from the outside
@@keithsawyer6356 I re built the sump pump pit in our rental property with a 55 gallon plastic drum with holes drilled in it and the top cut off! You could also use a 30 gallon drum too!
Your 12" catch basin install, the other pipes will be saturated with water and won't flow out into that much higher outlet pipe. Unless you have sump pumps into the basin. Did I miss something? Then if that was true, the water will go out the outlet pipe and the basin grate.
The basins fill up and then flow out of the pipe. You missed that if we started the outlet pipes lower we wouldn't have fall away from the CB.
@@GCFD Yes I did miss that, my fault. The dreaded fall....
so the large catch basin must fill with water to the height of the white pvc pipe before it will flow out? doesn't the water become stagnant that just sits in that basin? Why not just run pvc all the way? maybe there is an elevation change?
Yes, the water has to fill up to the level of the pipe before it begins to flow. We drill weep holes in the bottom and set the catch basin on a bed of gravel. This allows the residual water to drain out and prevent stagnant (mosquito) water.
@@GCFD ok. i have a sidewalk that always floods at the end of it from my gravel driveway. That looks like it would be perfect for this problem. Thanks
@@somuchinfo If you have a straight edge of a sidewalk I would use a channel drain instead of a catch basin. This is because the channel drain is straight and will go against the sidewalk and make a nice barrier for water. Check out my video on when to use a catch basin vs channel drain to see how I found this out (;
take a look at the French drain man videos on RUclips! He shows how to use the corrugated pipe and install a lifetime system. Not knocking your work here but just saying that gravel under any pipe will lead to root problems in the future.
This type of system works great until dirt migrates with the stone and then plugs your pipe solid. French drain man on RUclips. Check his stuff out 👍🏼👍🏼
I have seen tons of his stuff on his channel. I disagree with almost everything he says and does. I preserve flow in my systems which keeps debris blown out instead of collecting like it does in corrugated.
In situations like these, has a homeowner ever wanted to pump the water higher to get rid of it?
Pumping is highly effective but is a constant cost and maintenance concern. We pump as a last resort if we don't have fall.
Never buy a house that sits in a pond.
Haha Great advice!
Why not pointing the water to the street and then to the storm drain
The street was uphill so we would have had to install several sump basins and sump pumps. Pumping water is a last resort for me. I try to passively let the water flow downhill as it already wants to. No maintenance, equipment, or electricity to worry about. The flooding basement problem was because the water in the front had nowhere to go and sat around, eventually making its way into the basement.
Keep the hard work 👍
You wont hear the word basement in Louisiana it just dont happen.
2:00 standing water near the outfall is a mosquito breeding hazard too
Yes. The entire back side of that property is standing water so they definitely have mosquitos living there.
@@GCFD I was talking about the corrugated you unearth, dispose and despise
@@junkman8742 oh good point!
LOL! Come on guys, you are just taking the property owner's money. You are not solving anything as long as there is a retention pond right next to the property at that level shown. The only thing that will help are sump pumps. But, they would have to run so often that it would not be worthwhile. If I were the homeowner, I would pray for lightning to strike the house and burn it down.
We took the homeowner's money and solved his basement flooding problem. This was an awesome homeowner to work with and we have kept in touch. Things are dry!