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How to install gutter drain lines.
How to install a drain pipe in a flower bed how to unclog a landscape drain pipe the downspouts on your house s guttering system carry many gallons of rainwater off your roof and onto your yard.
Installation of gutter drain including downspout and hdpe triple wall pipe.
Before installing gutters rainwater from the roof fell to the ground and didn t flow anywhere before soaking in to the soil hence large spring rains lead to water in the basement.
Underground gutter drainage step 1.
Now that the trench is dug you can assemble the catch basin.
Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.
Dig trenches for drainage pipe.
Before digging call 811 to have utility lines marked.
How to install gutters in 8 steps 1.
Mark the highest point of the gutter run on the fascia 1 inches below the metal drip edge flashing on the extra wide fascia shown here the gutter is lower down.
Use solid sdr 35 pvc pipe.
Don t put pipes in un compacted fill dirt.
To prevent erosion make a rock bed around the end of the tube.
I wanted a good way to get rainwater from the roof as far away from the house as possible.
Install downspout drain line tips.
Call 811 to locate underground utilities.
Determine what works best for your house before ordering gutters and attachments.
Assemble and place the catch basin.
Snap layout lines photo by mary beth montgomery.