More Backyard Drainage
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
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Creating an additional French drain under the sunken terrace we are building.
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Digging It
02:40 - Water Flow
03:50 - Hindsight
04:43 - Connection
06:54 - Drain
07:21 - Nightfall
07:49 - More Gravel Before Bedtime
The defensive ring strategy.
Outer defences. Inner defences.
After all, it's war.
There’s certainly a lot of water coming down that hill! You are winning though!
It was like a scene from "In the night garden." I expected Upsy Daisy to appear at any moment.😂
Great job, well done!
I’m 68 years old now and realise that sometimes there are no mistakes but experience lessons.
You learn and discover something new every day.
This is getting more and more like a Moore n Cook sketch " Been down the drains all my life" 😂. Bless your heart, will it ever end! Stirling work, well done. 👏👏👍
I'm no expert but from my experience the size of those gravel stones could be a problem in time when they assest and with the weight of the ground/paving above it because it could perforate the pipe.
It's advisable to put thin sand immediately below and above the piping covering it for protection and only then add the gravel.
Admiration goes for your hard work.
Yikes. It looks like the trench I dug along the side of my allotment. 😬 My condolences.
Your house is going to be so much drier. It has lasted all these years with just the rudimentary drainage you started with. Everything you are doing can only improve matters.Well done sir!
Your doing a a great job
I really like your style and attitude, I often wish I had the benefit of hindsight prior to the job.😉 Anyhoo, you chose the perfect day to dig with a ‘lubricated’ spade.🤣
I looks that you've taken the long way around the barn...
I just hope it's not all in vain. 😕🤞❤
You're doing very well for someone who is learning as you go. The location of your house vis a vis groundwater is a really challenging problem to solve. I do think you're going about it the right way. The Terrace should be built up with compacted washed gravel (no fines) to encourage that draining, perhaps topped with a paver patio or similar. Above all, the only thing that concerns me is that one 100mm solid pipe is expected to drain all this groundwater behind the house plus a significant fraction of the rain gutter runoff from the back half of the roof. I am concerned about capacity and, what may happen in the event it is overwhelmed. Keep going Lewis.
More great progress 😀 the house will be so dry this winter. Ground works are always the most unpredictable of things so don’t beat yourself up for not expecting more drainage.
Not sure if it's helpful in your case... my backyard held water as the a natural low bowl collecting water from multiple yards. Over a a two year period, I dug 17 drains of varying lengths & depths to redirect the water. In the end, they all connected at some point, but once the final drain was in the difference was incredible. I just kept following the water to determine where to place the next drain.
A wonderful "night job". Keep at it!
The water coming down from hillside drain may flow back to the drain near the house.
You will need to check and tend that
Hey I bought a 300 year old abandoned farm in snowdonia wales
I KNOW about water 🤪
I didn't see the level again
How will you deal with the water in the bank before it gets to you drain?? Will you build a wall with drainage behind it? 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
That's exactly what I'll do. Cheers.
You forgot to put sone gravel in first… now the system will click up soon
How is it going with the humidity in the building?
Going to do a video on this soon! Cheers.
French drains in France, the irony.
Ha!.. can't help thinking you should have called this The Drainage Channel........
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