Timeline for Suggestions on how to keep drain tile in yard down?
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| May 28 at 16:26 | history | edited | Steve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28 at 16:24 | history | edited | Steve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28 at 16:20 | vote | accept | Steve | ||
| May 23 at 13:09 | comment | added | Steve | @Ecnerwal Thanks for the thoughts. I clearly don't have much experience in this area. Using the wrong terms is probably why I wasn't having much luck searching for solutions. Unfortunately, it seems like this was a post build addition on all the gutters. To be honest, I'm not even sure where these things flow out to. Considering all that, I'm just trying to patch it up and keep it working, rather than really replacing or upgrading the entire system. There's portion's of this that go under landscaping rocks. Dealing with the entire thing would turn into a real project. | |
| May 22 at 20:46 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | It's corrugated drain hose. Calling it tile is a misleading misnomer. If you had actual clay drain tile, it would not do what this is doing. If you had rigid plastic drain pipe it would also be difficult (though slightly more likely than heavy clay pipe) for it to float out. This stuff is the worst available option for drainage use. | |
| May 22 at 18:51 | comment | added | Steve | @Milwrdfan That's a fair consideration. It's one gutter, although I do have a severely sloped roof. Also I think the official measurement was like 1.3 inches of rain in about an hour. At this point I'm planning on using a combination of answers. I'm going to try and cut the one piece shorter and then tape it into the following piece and get the slack out of the line. When I have it dug up, I can try shooting water down the following drain tile and see if it gets backed up. | |
| May 22 at 17:14 | comment | added | Milwrdfan | What feeds into this drain pipe? If it's only a single gutter, and as you said "The intensity of the rain made it come shooting through the holes like a water fountain.", I wonder if it's partially blocked? Usually 4" pipe like that has plenty of capacity to handle a gutter, and so if it's shooting out, I wonder if you have a partially blocked line somewhere downstream of this point. | |
| May 21 at 16:22 | answer | added | FreeMan | timeline score: 0 | |
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| S May 21 at 15:02 | history | asked | Steve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |