Keep Water OUT of Your House: Installing a Landscape Drain - The Great Outdoors 6701
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2020
- Often times, a water problem on the inside can be fixed from the Great Outdoors. The following is a list of instructions for installing drain tile adjacent to the house’s foundation. The drain tile will allow excess water from gutters and “run-off” to be channeled into drainage pipes. NOTE: The amount of materials may vary depending on the length of the drain tile required.
List of Materials Needed
- slotted drain tile
- weed barrier fabric
- weed fabric “anchor pins”
- load of gravel
- drain tile connectors (“Y” or “T” depending on position of downspout)
List of Tools Needed
- spade or shovel
- all-purpose cutting tool
- sharp pair of scissors
STEPS FOR INSTALLING A DRAIN TILE
STEP 1
Dig a trench along the foundation of the house, corresponding to the problem interior wall. Only make the trench about 6-8 inches deep and 6-8 inches wide.
STEP 2
Next, line the trench with weed barrier fabric. Use anchor pins to hold the fabric in place. The fabric will not only keep weeds out of the trench, but prevent the gravel from sinking into the mud.
STEP 3
Cut the drain tile to the appropriate length and place it in the trench. Don’t forget to add enough length to connect to the downspout. If you are connecting your drain tile to existing solid (non-slotted) drain tile, attach the pieces using the appropriate connector.
STEP 4
Fill the trench with gravel.
STEP 5
Connect the drain tile to your downspout, using the appropriate connector. Incoming rainfall will flow through the gravel, enter the tile through the slots, and flow away from the house.
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TYTYTY I needed this because of this next summer is with lots of rain. Its easy for me to do it .GREAT
Informative! Thanks
You need to install some catch basins to catch immediate surface water. The slotted pipe is mostly used for water coming up through the slots in the bottom of the pipe. You also need to show the discharge to daylight or to a sump basin so that a sump pump can discharge to daylight. In addition, you should paint the side of the house with liquid rubber to seal it, e.g., blackjack 57.
Sounds like the same advice that Chuck at Apple Drains would give!
Putting A French drain up against the house doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. It’s going to draw the water there.
@@dosam_6146 it is now code to have drains around the foundation. But id glue pond liner to the foundation and make a J channel then do what he did.
@@paulbarnes8688 that's smart as hell....pond liner ..also since it now being code..how far from the houses wall does the drain have to be ? I would assume it would depend on how far out the houses eaves /soffit extend? Or is is supposed to be almost right up against the homes wall ?
@@KainsFleshlight it should be right beside the footer, but the J channel will allow it to be higher than that
Super helpful!
I have water build up next to one room of the home. I’m going to concrete from the wall onto a channel drain which will connect onto the drainage main pipe beneath. I believe taking the water away from the home is a better approach all with schedule 40 PVC.
In principal this French drain will help but it’ll be harder to maintain and keep clean. I think PVC with holes acting as a French drain will be easier to maintain.
Possibly have a PVC drain with holes beneath the soil, fill with concrete and slope the concrete away from the home be a better solution? What do you think?
We will never know unless we go back to homes which had/have drainage issues and to go back a few years later to check what worked best. Thank You.
I get some water in my garage from the back wall. I can implement this strategy outside from the patio over.
Great video thanks! Answered my question. Besides, any expert who does trench work in cuffed dress pants and a dress shirt is OK in my books!
Thanks!
This was helpful
There are several things wrong in this video.
You should never have a French Drain that close to a building, you are now allowing water to be adjacent to the structure sub grade. You want all FDs several feet away from the house, with a dirt or otherwise impermeable barrier and a graded slope at the surface. The exception is if you are building a foundation drain, but that has to be at the level of the footer and it doesn't look like they dug that far in the video.
Second, you never want to incorporate downspout drainage in a system with slotted pipe. By having a tee into the French Drain, you are now injecting all that downspout water into the space adjacent to the foundation. It will be even worse if the discharge pipe becomes clogged or even partially obstructed. You can run both systems in the same trench, but the downspout water should be in a parallel solid pipe.
I would be surprised if the drainage installation in this video doesn't make the problem worse.
Saved me there thank u
Thank you! I have liked and subscribed. Did I understand correctly that the pipe has holes in it that rain can go right into it's sides - not just water coming from the gutter pipe, right? Thank you!
will this work if there's not really a slope to work with? you mentioned that the water will go "downhill" however I don't have much of a downhill to use.
How do you maintain your termite barrier using this method? This seems to be a real problem.
French drain will cause foundation problem if it's installed within 1m according to an engineering website.
How do you slope it away and does the paper go up to the foundation
Is that supposed to do around the home foundation ? Or to meet the down spouts?
Wouldnt water still pool in the trench? Or is the hose slotted all the way around.
Wow cool
Do you have more videos on this subject? So can slotted pipe join up to solid pipe?
Yes
I'm wondering what size gravel can be used
Great video, however I'm not sure if having the down pipe flowing directly into the french drain/AGI pipe is a good idea
I'm told shingle debris will clog the holes over time..dealing with the decision myself
@@noname-tf7kq Mesh filter before it goes in?
Would have been better to also paint the foundation/bottom of the wall with water blocking substance such as liquid rubber before filling it. Always try to add another layer of defense while youre at it.
Hi. Did this solve your problem?
This man loves a good from the great outdoors joke! Love it
Excellent video! Could the same be done with a house on a crawlspace?
Yes
It would’ve been nice to see how you layed the remaining hose to the run off spot
Several articles I searched say to dig it 4-6 feet away from the house. I don't have space to do that since my neighbors driveway is too close. Is there risk of digging along the foundation, esp in earthquake prone area such as the San Francisco bay area?
I don’t think this guy knows what he’s doing
Put in concrete sidewalk. Easy peasy.
I'm getting water on side of house and finding tiny pinholes in my foundation. I have the sock with slotted pipe down and across, but I never see water at the end of the drain pipe downhill is this normal?
Is there water that pools up? Also is it obviously down hill? Maybe it is not pitched correct, supposed to be 1% of a pitch (or more i guess where there's naturally occurring hills)
My parents love in the garage and on the side of garage water gets in through foundation. So can I build a trench close to house like that? And do I need to dig trench all the way to street for water to travel down?
It’s just like that but go all the way to the street.
@@youravgfisherman400 thank u for ur great advice. U mentioned on video that only need to dig about 6 to 8 inches deep but don't I have to keep digging until I find the footing on foundation then place corrugated pipe about 3 to 4 inches below from footing also can I just add gravel under pipe instead of weed barrier? Also if I cant put pipe all the way to street can I at some point put one of those pop up things so water can escape there?
@@futbol1972 go somewhere else for advice. This video looks like it’s from the 90s.
I'm thinking if you use solid pipe and catch basins, you don't need to worry about soil buildup and wraps because you can just hydro jet it clean if it ever does clog. Landscape fabric will clog eventually, that's a fact.
I agree. Possibly concrete next to home too taking water away from the wall?
Also ...A 6" pitch from the house out at least 6' grade would help. If its a slab foundation a deeper trench should have been dug...And the footer all the way around should be coated with liquid rubber
The water will flow up against the foundation and thru the stones. The weed barrier will slow it from entering the pipe, allowing some it to seep down and eventually into the house. For that type of system to work, it needs very, very little pitch or slope, enough for water to flow to the solid pipe, but almost level to pick up water. If the back of the pipe is too high, the water level won't come high enough to get in. The pipe will never fully drain to the outlet, so water will seep out the bottom and keep the dirt against the foundation wet longer, inviting mold. The depth of the pipe in relation to the footer is critical.
As mentioned earlier, needed to build dirt and hopefully grass away from the house and build any bottom feeding drain at least 4 feet away. How not to install drainage.
Not sure if im a fan of curtain drain using perforated pipe...As it may allow some water to escape but can also escalate water seepage out of the slits and back in the foundation...Also while he had it dug out...He should have brushed liquid rubber on the foundation ledge...and then take thick mil plastic against the liquid rubber and under the pipe ..The liquid rubber would seal the area penetrating the inside...Which is most likely at floor level...He does have a convincing way of expressing his technique 😅
Wow dude good idea but no follow up to make sure dat worked?
That water hose spigot probably caused some of the problem too
LOL, you never T downspouts into a perimeter drain. You’re also not suppose to put them right against the house. Regrade the soil 1” drop for every foot away from the house. For ever 1’ of basement depth, you go 1’ out for that drop. 6’ basement = 6’ out from house and 6” down. If you do this, or cant quite go that distance due to surrounding elevations, at end of that drop is where you may need to add a french or perimeter drain…. and DO NOT T downspouts into it. Run their own PVC smooth pipe to daylight so they dont clog with debris.
So basically this guy in the video doesn’t know shit?
Do you lay the pipe slotted side up or down?
Slots facing down
The slots are all over the pipe so it doesn't matter.
@@mattfoley6082 not on Ads or pvc pipe. They do have pipe that is slotted all the way around though but it's usually special order
@@shanewhite499 Nope, he's using corrugated perforated pipe. Has perforations all the way around. Every home center like Lowes has it. www.lowes.com/pd/ADS-4-in-x-100-ft-Corrugated-Perforated-Pipe/50163593
I'm usually on my side when I lay the pipe, but the slot can be side up or side down.
What is stopping water from flowing out the holes, through the mesh, and into the soil underneath?
Water will flow upwards as it fills the trench, much like filling a pool or basin, then into the holes of the perforated pipe.
Some water will flow down underneath, yes, but most will continue down and out the end of the pipe.
@@andrewsimon5437 Oh okay…now I understand! I was thinking of water coming DOWN and not filling UP. Thank you…I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea! 🤪
I’ve read that you need to dig up to 12 to 18 inches down - is this excessive? 6 to 8 inches seems more manageable for a DYIer
He clearly said 6-8 and then did 12-18 in the video. It’s a mess. The depth of 18 seems excessive if you don’t have a HUGE rainfall. The pipe just needs to be big enough to not overflow.
@@colinfrederick2603 Think it depends on footer depth.... Dont go Lower than the Footer. It would compromise the foundation integrity.
why is that plant called irishman,1-37
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Is it a good idea to put the trench right next to the house?
No, the water will take the path of least resistance. It will go through the gravel and into the foundation, especially if that drain pipe clogs. I'm just an average Joe though.
Yes. The water won’t ever touch the foundation (mostly) because if it gets that close the path of least resistance will be the drain which you make go down a slope
This is a terrible method. Slope the dirt away from the foundation and put the drainage pipe like 6-8' away from the house.
@@KingSobieski agree. I’m thinking concrete next to wall sloping away with a channel drain a few feet away too. That way water don’t go beneath next to the foundation. Good idea?
Did you try to copy Apple Drains? Chuck has 1000’s of videos on solving this problem!
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At least you get straight to the point. Informative. But why doesn't the water fall out through the holes? Just as easy as you would hope it enters the holes?
Water gathers at the bottom of the pipe and drains that way. The holes are only on the sides to let water in. Just need to orient the pipe correctly when intalling
@@jessiejohnson7069 only pipe I can get here in nz has holes all the way around. They call it Nova coil.
@@garystevens4303 i dont see that being an issue really. The trench will fill up with water and the holes “all around” will allow water into the pipe. As long as you have correct slope on the pipe, water will use the pipe and convey the water in the sloped direction. I am not an expert, just diy person fyi
Ok so that's my problem but my yard is flat so it doesnt go down hill
This is not a good idea where did you find this guy
This a messy approach. Dirt will eventually get on top of those stones work its way down, spawning weeds. It' better to wrap the pipe in a fabric sock (which they sell at home depot). It keeps dirt out of the pipe and allows you to put a layer of stones, then dirt on top of the pipe.
If you put dirt on top wouldn’t it prevent it from going down, and then be up against the house
@@Joe-xm3fm no the dirt would drain the water naturally. Technically the grade should be pitched against from the house 1% for 10 feet
@@Joe-xm3fm away from the house * not against sorry
1:57 I know his generation was tougher than mine when I see him using his hand as a hammer
He probably regretted it after, the ground looks soft and I've done that in harder soil.
I have a basement wmthat gets a bit of water. I want to get the water of the roof away from the basement walls.
Is there's a way to have my gutters go into a slotted drain like you did, and excess water from the side of the house get into these pise without risking adding to potential basement floods?
The comment section made me concerned.
Ok, but beige trousers for the job?!
we followed all your instructions and still have water coming in….. now what??
The mistake you made was following this advice. Videos like this should be quality checked and removed from RUclips, as this is the type of misinformation that will cause a lot of problems for a home owner. If you want quality advice, check out Apple Drains on RUclips; he actually knows what he's talking about.
What if the ground is flat?
He didn't mention that it should be sloped down for drainage.
Too close to foundation.
I was just about with you until you tied the downspout in with the drain tile… That is a no-no for sure. If that solid pipe blocks up with leaves and other kind of shit from the gutters, that water is going fullbore right into the house. Always separate your downspout from your drainage pipe. I expect more from a somewhat professional looking video…
A french drain is exactly a downspout connected to a drainage pipe
Nothing like using same pipe that leaked. PVC only way go. No cloth no gravel.
Is it perforated ? If so you'll need cloth if not perforated u can't use the pvc lol
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Looks all wrong to me. If you are removing gutter water, you should never use slotted drain pipe. Otherwise you are dumping gutter water down to your foundation, making it worse. It should all be solid pipe. You should show the results 6 months later! Wont work.
This video is misleading. I am afraid many people will follow it to the detriment of their foundation. Never dig and install a french drain very close to the foundation. He also used woven fabric which is very poor in passing water through into the pipe. Unwoven fabric is the right one. Check for geotextile 270R or higher.
French drains a much better option, this looks very risky.
No. Just no.
You don't want a french drain that close to your foundation.
You wouldn't want to drain a downspout into slotted pipe.
You really shouldn't be using that crappy landscaping material.
Please, don't try this at home...
This is not sufficient
This would actually be way way worse for your house. You're asking the water to come up against your basement walls. Once that crappy pipe fills up with dirt you're gonna have a swimming pool in all that gravel right up against your house.
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So what is your alternative??
What he needs is a true French drain, cuz that's about the dumbest way I've seen to "fix" a water drainage issue...
This isn’t as bad as it seems. That drain tile will not easily fill with dirt or clog.
Still, would be better to put the trench about another 2 ft from the wall or so. Grade the dirt at the house so it’s higher and slopes down toward the trench. Everything else is fine.
There are several ways it can be addressed. But that is a standard exterior solution. You can see all kinds of professional companies doing them here on RUclips. You obviously don't do this kind of work for a living.
You could also treat the old foundation down to the footer (parge coat with cement to fill all cracks, coat entire foundation down to footer with foundation coating, then cover the foundation coating all the way down to the footer with 5 mil plastic. You can also use cement caulk with silicone around any pipes going through the foundation after the parge coat (inside and out).
Or do a drain tile system on the inside and slope the perforated pipe and rocks so that all the water goes into 1 or more sump pumps and pump the water out away from the house.
But its probably better to stop the water from coming into the basement with an exterior solution than pumping it back out once it's gotten into your house to prevent humidity and or mold issues.
that wrong you adding more water to the problem gutter drain neets to be by it self
please don't put weed barrier "plastic" in the ground
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This will fail within a few tears.
No no no So many things wrong with this.
That was a very cheap and nasty way to get this done. lol
No No No. If your collecting water from downspouts you use a solid pipe not perforated. All this guy is doing is distributing the downspout water to the foundation wall lol.
You didnt watch the video. He literally said he used a solid pipe to connect to the downspout. People like you are the worst.
all wrong bro, sorry
How’s that?
Oh boy…you’re literally giving water a direct route into your crawl space, drain tile is way too shallow and by far the worst “ fabric” option, would have been better off with none.